Library Finds Group on Flickr
cc image used courtesy of herzogbr on flickr
Anyone who’s worked in a library in any capacity knows patrons leave behind all sorts of things, some strange, some amusing and some that just make you scratch your head and wonder. Brian Herzog of Swiss Army Librarian has created a Flickr group where we can share these little treasures with each other. Similar to Found Magazine
Brian says:
I’m not uploading anything that seemed personally-identifiable: peoples’ first and last names, phone numbers, email addresses, account login and passwords – and there were a frighteningly large number of these.
That’s good advice any contributor should follow. Now go take a picture of that cheesecake pan someone left in the stacks & upload it! 
Have fun!
Put Down the Phone and Pay Attention
CC image courtesy of Lights Out Photos on flickr
Last week I (and many others) spent a lot of time documenting the Internet Librarian conference, photos, tweets, blog posts, facebook updates. Did the act of digitally documenting the events change anything? Did the process of lifestreaming change my (and others) behavior, perception of what was happening and memories of it. Will we remember it better or worse?
A recent article from CNN Do digital diaries mess up your brain? looks at the effects of lifestreaming. Just knowing others are watching you may change the types of experiences you choose to have, from books to movies to where you eat and what you wear.
“If we have experiences with an eye toward the expectation that in the next five minutes, we’re going to tweet them, we may choose difference experiences to have, ones that we can talk about rather than ones we have an interest in,” he said.
It also detaches you from what’s happening at the moment. If you’re focused on tweeting what’s happening, you’re not fully engage in what’s happening.
But recording everything you do takes people out of the “here and now,” psychologists say. Constant documenting may make people less thoughtful about and engaged in what they’re doing because they are focused on the recording process, Schwartz said.
What does that do to our actual memories of events? Memories are shaky at best even when you’re completely focused. If you’re only half there, will you remember it later without the aid of digital documentation? What would I rather have a memory of something or documentation of it to prove I was there? What if that documentation goes away?
It makes me think, I do want to be living and experiencing life to the fullest. Does this mean I’ll put down the camera, the cell phone, the laptop? I don’t know. Probably not at conferences, but I’ll be thinking hard about doing it in other areas of my life. What good is lifestreaming an experience if I’m not fully enjoying it?
How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr
Yes, the absolute correct way! I previously asked how you credit a CC photo from Flickr. Since then I’ve been doing my research and here is the results – The correct way to credit a photo.
You need to follow the guidelines set by the license. I’m only going to address attribution. According to Creative Commons you need to:
- keep intact any copyright notices for the Work
- credit the author, licensor and/or other parties (such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify;
- include the title of the Work
- the URL for the work if applicable
- If you are making a derivative word or adaptation, in addition to the above, you need to identify that your work is a derivative work i.e., “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” or “Screenplay based on [original work] by [author].”
My addition/suggestion
- Let the author know. Leave a comment on the image, send them an email, a Flickrmail whatever. Flickr doesn’t provide trackbacks, if you don’t tell them you used it they may never know. People like to know when others are using their works or citing them. Plus, it’s just nice.
That is a lot to include. So what does a perfect attribution look like? How do you include all that information?
Example 1. If you grab an image from Flickr you can choose the “Blog This” option which will give you the title, the author, and links to both images and user profile. It’s missing the information about the Creative Commons license and a link.
Originally uploaded by Librarian by Day
blog this test
Example 2. You can download the image from Flickr. This one is missing everything, it’s up to you to provide the author, title the work, provide the CC license and links.
Example 3. Lately I’ve been formatting mine like this. The photo links back to the photo on Flickr and the caption indicates is a CC photo and gives the name of the photographer. I also leave a comment on the photo on Flickr thanking them for using a CC license and letting them know I’ve used it in a blog post with a subtle link to the post.
CC Image courtesy of Librarian by Day on Flickr
I’ve also seen bloggers use a footnote to the post saying Photo Credit: Librarian by Day, with “Librarian by Day” linked to the image or profile. What are we all still missing? The title, the Creative Commons License used and links to the CC and author profile
Example 4. You can use imagecodr.org to create it. You put in the URL of the photo it automatically does the rest! The alt text contains the author title and credits Flickr. The image links to Flickr. It adds the CC license image and author adds appropriate links.
My problem with this one is I can’t get both the image and the text to align right in Wordpress. WP doesn’t allow linking in captions. The information underneath isn’t technically a caption. Maybe someone with more coding savvy than me can figure it out.
Example 5. A perfect attribution would look like this:
This photo, “The monkeys are here!” is copyright (c) 2009 Librarian by Day and made available under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license
Ok that’s a perfect attribution, it’s a bit more work. Does it need to go directly under the photo? I don’t know.
Good enough?
This may be a case where good enough works. I can’t recall ever seeing a Flickr photo with a perfect attribution and the world isn’t falling apart. I’m just not sure if what I consider good enough is what you consider good enough. There is a big difference between the bare minimum and good enough. To me, my current way, example 2, is good enough. It includes the name, indicates CC license, links to the original image and I leave a comment on the image letting the author know.
Will you use the perfect attribution? If not what is good enough for you?
Read more:
- Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing: Users
- Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing: Creators
- How do I properly attribute a Creative Commons licensed work?
Have you submitted your photo or video for Library 101 yet?
David Leek King and Michael Porter are up to it again, they are making a new library video! and they want your help! Remember Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library?
It’s easy, just take photos of yourself and other library staff with the one and zero Michael posted and submit them to the Flickr photo group.
Or you can submit a video, Michael says:
1. The song will be fast. Showing lots of 0’s and 1’s going by quickly is very good!
2. Short videos are best. Five seconds is good amount. Multiple five second or less videos could all be included but unless they are especially remarkable, longer video submissions will likely be edited down.
3. Grouping 1’s together and then grouping zero’s and then 1’s again is good. “101, 101, 101. 101, 101″ just the way it sounds when you read that.
4. Creative is good!
5. One of the visual themes of the video, in addition to the pictures and the zeros and ones we are using are the basic colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, indigo, plus white, pink and grey.
Thats’ it! It’s super easy so you’ve got no excuse! Get to it! Light! Camera! Action!
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