How to: Contributing to Glocal via Flickr

Writing by Jer on Wednesday, 30 of April , 2008 at 7:46 pm

Flickr is an online photo archive with upwards of 2 billion archived photos. While most of the images are uploaded by the general public, Flickr has also been active in archiving institutional photography collections, like those from the Library of Congress. We’ll be aggregating images from Flickr for the Glocal project, so uploading your images there is an easy way to get involved.

The image gallery that you see above this post is a live feed from the Flickr Glocal pool – it shows you all of the images that have been contributed to the project so far. As things start to pick-up steam over the next little while, you’ll see lots of updates – so check back often for new images.

And, of course, those images can come from you! If you have been using one of our toolkits to make some interesting images, or if you have photos that have been taken in the Glocal spirit, you can upload them to your Flickr account and have them become part of the Glocal photo pool.

Here’s how:

1) Log-in to your Flickr account and upload photos as usual. If you don’t have a Flickr account, you sign up for one from the main page. We recommend using the Flickr Uploadr for uploading images, which lets you sort and tag photos offline and upload them in one big batch when you are ready.

2) First of, all tag your Glocal images with the tag ‘glocalproject‘. This will make sure your images can be found, even if they aren’t part of the Glocal group pool.

3) Next, you’ll want to change the license for your image. By default, any image that you upload to Flickr is copyrighted – no one can legally use the image in any way. Your image is ‘all rights reserved’. However, if you want artists, creators, institutions – anyone to use your image, you can change your image to be ’some rights reserved’ or even ‘no rights reserved’. Flickr enables this by allowing you to attach a Creative Commons License to your image. To do this, look to the right of your image where you see the copyright (©) symbol. Click on the ‘edit’ button, and select one of the Creative Commons Licenses for your image. Any of these licenses will allow the Glocal Project to use your image – for more information about what they mean, visit the Creative Commons website.

4) Finally, you can add your image to the Glocal Group’s photo pool. To do this, click on the ’send to groups’ icon from above the photo and select the Glocal group. Of course, you’ll need to belong to the Glocal group first – you can do that from the Glocal Flickr Group homepage.

If you have any questions you can always get ahold of us – info@glocal.ca.

 

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