Flickr’s The Commons is a really clever initiative.
Flickr gets high-value historical content (the kind of stuff that drives the long tail) and some nice publicity. The collections get to bring their content to many new users in a new way. Beyond access, the collections can also accrue tags, comments, and geo-tags, potentially adding a layer [...]
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The brilliance of Flickr Commons and the public domain
Another contribution to the commons — this one’s a Spanish textbook
A book which I scanned has just been posted to Project Gutenberg, free (gratis and public domain) to the world. It’s a textbook for learning Spanish: Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios, by Lawrence Wilkins and Max Luria, from 1916. It’s Project Gutenberg etext #24250, and should be available here shortly; an HTML version is directly available [...]
