Your weekly recap of happenings around the Flickr Commons.

The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Oregon State University Archives

Let’s start the week off with a challenge! The Oregon State University Archives just added a map to their 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition set on Flickr. Anyone feel game to create a mash-up similar to what we did with the Chicago Expo? Read more about the finding of this map at OSU Archives’ blog.

• The Museum Computer Network 2009 conference is being held November 11-14 in Portland, OR. OSU Archives will present its case study of the Flickr Commons!
• Speaking of Portland, anyone know anything about some of the rose gardens there? OSU wants your help!
• Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content – Seb Chan at the Powerhouse Museum responds to a question about their experience with the Flickr Commons.
• Be sure to catch his presentation schedule, too. Lots coming up.
• The 2009 National Digital Forum conference will be held November 23-24 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Courtney Johnson at the National Library of New Zealand has information on subsidies for small organizations.
• Stacking the Tech: The Library of Congress Talks Digital Initiatives with the folks at Library Journal.
• Catch this write-up, by L’Archivista of the Building, Managing and Participating in Online Communities session at the Society of American Archivists 2009 conference.
• The American Historical Association provides a Take Two of Snapshots of the Past: The Commons on Flickr, an overview of the institutions that have joined the Commons since their first article.
• Picturing Rochester: Got photos of Rochester, New York? George Eastman House wants ‘em!
• The Powerhouse Museum has labels! And they want your visitor labels for their Odditoreum!
• The National Library of Wales has new podcasts up! Great stories of the library from folks that used to work there.
• Astrobiology: Life in Space, a webcast from the Library of Congress of Daniel P. Glavin, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who says the possibility of extraterrestrial life in our solar system is not limited to Mars.
• You’ll like the preview of the D.C. Public Library’s new website!
• Read about the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Peel Island lazaret, from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.
• Not sure where to find the Smithsonian on the internet? Here’s a guide.
• The SI and the Chandra X-ray makes news about research on the birth of stars.
• Harewood House and some historic photographs of Yorkshire – a fun field trip with the National Media Museum!
• ARRRRRRRR! The Field Museum wants you to dress like a pirate!

The Brooklyn Museum Crew

Twitter was all up in arms last weeks with #dukeriley. Here’s the Brooklyn Museum’s battleship. The New York Times and WNYC explain.

Here’s your weekly round-up of recent uploads in the Flickr Commons

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Ooh… night photography from the Estúdio Horácio Novais collection of the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Lisboa: vistas nocturnas

See the elegant theaters and cinemas of Portugal in their collection, too.

Teatros e Cinemas

Take a trip to Mt. Hood up the Columbia River Highway. A great road trip from the Oregon State University Archives.

Trip to Mount Hood

Start your week with a little laughter. The State Library and Archives of Florida brings you memorial images of the state’s brief hubs for filmmaking on the east coast.

Vim Comedy Company: Jacksonville, Florida

Timber! A classic from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Picture of the Week

The Library of Congress continues uploading their fascinating newspaper supplements. These illustrations are really priceless.

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements

This is your round-up of new images posted to the Flickr Commons at the end of July.

You’ll also be tantalized by the architecture of their recent uploads of Fort Barrancas in Pensacola, Florida.

Florida Commerce

Go camping with the State Library of Queensland, Australia! The photos were compiled by entomologist Henry Hacker and were taken in a subtropical area, Freshwater Creek, now a suburb of Cairns.

Camping in Queensland

Visit a charming castle, also from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Picture of the Week

The Library of Congress adds 50 more Bain News Service images to tag! See Asbury Park, New Jersey, long before Bruce Springsteen was there.

News in the 1910s

This is your weekly update of important events and notes about the institutions that partake in the Flickr Commons.

• Virtuous circle – from visitor to speaker: Read about how the Flickr Commons transformed the relationship of one of the Powerhouse Museum’s guests.
• The mystery of Level One: what is happening at the Powerhouse Museum?
• What in the Powerhouse’s workshop? A telescope!
• The Brooklyn Museum releases v.1.3 of their iPhone application… and lessons learned.
• Cool – the Brooklyn Museum’s iPhone application gets a mention on the O’Reilly Radar.
• And check out their awesome Twitter profile at Beyond the Fail Whale.
• How Green These Valleys Were: Some info about the Library of Congress’s recent uploads to the Commons.
• Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy v 1.0: Hot off the press.
• Who do you trust? A post by Marvin Heiferman, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, on the veracity of photojournalism.
• Are You There? by Merry A. Foresta, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, on travel photography.
• Ten Years Later: A round-up of the Chandra X-ray Lab, from the Smithsonian.
• Matthew Lewis talks Harry Potter 7, IMAX, and weird fans, all at the National Media Museum.
• Praise for PANDORA: A post from the State Library of Queensland, Australia, on Australia’s Web Archive. They also have 3 new digital stories available.
• Fellowship Awards Preserves Films: A short report on this project by George Eastman House.
• Job Search: How to Avoid Interview Mishaps: Get armed for your next job interview, from the good folks at the New York Public Library.
• Also, The Craft of the Book: Reading List: A PSA from the NYPL
• Oh yea, and the NYPL is looking for a Senior Applications Developer. Apply now.
• The Australia War Memorial goes on the offense about the terms ‘wounded’ and ‘injured’.

Friday Fun!

Need more baby animals fix? Look no farther than Flickr and the National Zoo’s photostream.

Go Visit!

01 August – My Fair Lady at the Dryden Theatre, George Eastman House, a Lerner and Loewe classic.

Now through 18 October – In Focus: Making a Scene at the Getty Museum. Theatricality and photography: “the images in this exhibition are inspired by art history, literature, religion, and mainstream media.”

13 August – The New York Public Library partners with the NYC chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association to host screenings of HBO’s series on Alzheimer’s Disease.

Cyanotype is among the earliest of photographic processes, and the examples of its use found in the Commons are all also early. Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype in 1842, and Anna Atkins was its first active practitioner — and perhaps the first female photographer as well. The New York Public Library photograph below is among many of hers held at the NYPL and available in the Commons on Flickr.

You can read a basic description of the cyanotype process on Wikipedia . Mike Ware is among modern improvers on the process. The Flickr group Cyanotypes is devoted to new examples of this very old technique.

Himanthalia lorea (1843-53)

New York Public Library

Elevated view of the flooded river and West End, Brisbane, 1893

State Library of Queensland, Australia

People indoors, Lysekil, Sweden (1880s)

Swedish National Heritage Board

Jetties Beach, c. 1890s

Nantucket Historical Association

Finding cyanotypes — or photographs of any particular type or process — in the Commons, particularly as it grows larger, depends on terminology being in the photographs descriptions or tags … in the language you look for it in. If you’re browsing the Commons or commenting on a Commons photograph, take a moment to add search terms to tags.

Your weekly update of newly uploaded images to the Flickr Commons is here, inviting you to take a trip on some legendary trains and ships of yore… but beware of hazards!

Oregon State University Archives reveals a magnificent set of Western U.S. travel lantern slides, depicting missions, universities, and scenic views found along two well-known rail routes in Arizona, California, and Oregon. Be sure to read all the links they provide as this is a really informative set.

Shasta and Sunset Routes

Delightful ships abound in the National Maritime Museum’s photostream! See London, destroyers, barques, and great figureheads.

Port Cities London

Perhaps you fancy a flight on a hot air balloon? Enjoy stereoscopic travel images, from the National Library of New Zealand.

Stereographs

Nature is a formidable opponent, though, so beware of flooding. Images from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Floods

Keep your hands and arms inside the boat, kids! The State Archives and Library of Florida show off their photos of when disaster struck.

Hurricanes in Florida

Escape back to civilization with the State Library of New South Wales to enjoy new uploads from Sam Hood.

Discover Collections – Theatre in Sydney

Then it’s on to Lisbon, Portugal with the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to see photographs from the Estúdio Horácio Novais.

Lisboa: perspectivas gerais e parciais

Don’t miss their exquisite images of Portuguese tiles found in Luanda, Angola.

Angola

We’ll wrap up this week with 50 more Bain News Service images from the Library of Congress. You know there are plenty of mustaches there waiting to be tagged.

News in the 1910s

Your weekly introduction into the newest photographs uploaded to the Flickr Commons.

Our lead story? The George Eastman House uploads a set of Eugène Atget’s photographs just in time for their one year Commonsversary.

Atget’s unique documentation of the French capital captured the eye of surrealist photographer Man Ray, who worked to promote Atget as one of the pre-eminent photographic modernists. Later, the efforts of Berenice Abbott, who acquired Atget’s negatives and prints after his death, finally situated Atget’s work in the history of photography, where it continues to gain in stature and influence. Wow. Just. .. wow!

Eugène Atget

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, delivers yet another stunner as their Picture of the Week! Flickr user orangecats says, This pic taught me this Qantas stands for somthing … Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd.

Picture of the Week

Do you know how thick Gotham was? Find out in the fabulous set of news supplements from the Library of Congress. I enjoyed this one since it provides a look at a skyscraper of yore, long ago torn down.

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse uploads charming images of a village in France. They belong to quite a few different sets; I like the Personnages et portraits set for the stories it seems to tell.

Bélesta, France

Tag! Comment! Enjoy!

Want to tag Flickr Commons photos on your iPhone? Check out the Extraordinaries! Crowdsourcing just got a whole lot easier.

Heard around the Commons:

• Hot diggity! The Swedish National Heritage Board reports it’s reached 200,000 views on its Flickr Commons collection!
• Remembering Michael Jackson, from the New York Public Library’s blog.
• The Library of Congress is now on Facebook and iTunes U!
• There is still time to sign up for the FLICC Preservation Institute, a joint venture between Lyrasis, the Library of Congress, the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), and the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK).
• Three new indigenous digital stories are now on Queensland Stories at the State Library of Queensland, Australia’s website.
• Check out the Powerhouse Museum’s Odditoreum, “an incredibly low-tech ‘exhibition’ with no technology-based interactive experiences and minimal web presence.”
• See the Modern Times immersive, a nifty Powerhouse article about an exhibition which is traveling to the State Library of Queensland.
• Husbands and Wives: Stories from the Film Archive of the George Eastman House.
• A quick rundown of the Brooklyn Museum’s ArtSee, a web app formatted for the iPod Touch 3″ screen.
• The Scout Report brings you the Best of 2008-2009 online resources, and the Smithsonian’s History Explorer tops the chart!
• The Camera Loved Einstein, another in a series of posts about the Smithsonian’s Flickr collection, by Catherine Shteynberg, Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
• A Galaxy Collision in Action, an informative post from the Smithsonian’s Chandra X-Ray blog about Stephan’s Quintet.
• Happy birthday to the Smithsonian National Zoo’s giant happy panda, Tai Shan! See photos of Tai Shan and his giant birthday cake.

Friday Fun:

Watch an intriguing video about digital information by Everywhere Is Here.
Hat tip to the good folks at the D.C. Public Library for this find.

Go Visit!

11 July - Mas Exitos, the legendary twice-a-month event held at the Verdugo Bar in Highland Park, comes to the Getty Museum. The Getty has been closed due to wildfires this week, so be sure to call ahead for information about this event.

23 July - Watkins and the Rapiers play at the George Eastman House, part of the Garden Vibes summer concert series.

This is your weekly guide to everything new in the Commons on Flickr for the past week. Take a moment to stroll through history and discover photographs of yore.

The National Archief celebrates the Tour de France with archival images of this famed bicycle race. Perhaps you can find some Now shots to pair up with these Then shots?

Tour de France

The Oregon State University Archives chronicles the history of their state with some truly stellar photographs, featuring both Lewis and Clark (including other members of that expedition), Chief Joseph (the leader of the Nez Perces tribe), and Prairie Schooners.

People and places: “Early Settlement of Oregon”

50 new Bain News Service photographs from the Library of Congress are waiting for your help in tagging and commenting! Here’s U.S. President Wilson at his summer home.

News in the 1910s

The State Library of Queensland, Australia, presents the construction of the Story Bridge in Brisbane just in time for the 69th anniversary of the bridge’s opening.

Picture of the Week

Our friends the animals, brought to you by the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Nos amies les bêtes

View this set of tiles in Brazilian churches, identified by João Miguel dos Santos Simões when carrying out an inventory of the Portuguese tiles from 1960 to 1968, from the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Igrejas brasileiras

Florida Memory has also posted thrilling images of hurricanes! Here’s Ivan making some noise:

Hurricanes in Florida

Our weekly look around the Commons’ institutions to see what’s happening both digitally and brick-&-mortar.

Fill the Gap: Case 55B (Jul 09) by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Help the Smithsonian American Art Museum find an object for this space by searching their online collections.

• RIP Michael Jackson. Some notes about his passing from the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian.
• Gone, But Not Forgotten: Marvin Heiferman, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, laments the passing of Kodachrome.
• m-Libraries 2009 coverage by the New York and D.C. Public Libraries.
• PandaCam at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo!
• Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution discusses how the Smithsonian is using new technology tools in support of the Institution’s 163-year-old mission: the “increase and diffusion of knowledge,” in this CSPAN video.
• Did you know that the Smithsonian streams live events on ustream?
• Vote for the best dressed in red, white, and blue in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History 4th of July contest!
• Intern opportunities are available at that museum, too. Check out this write-up of what it’s like to intern for them.
• Guinea pigs wanted for the D.C. Public Library’s Google Voice platform! Check out the DCPL’s other projects, too, including an iPhone app.
• You can learn a language at the D.C. Public Library, too.
• 8 finding aids for the Oregon State University Archives collections were completed or updated in June 2009.
• Judith H. Dobrzynski had lunch with Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum; they discussed the problem of permanent collections.
• Hey U, Tune In: The Library of Congress is now on iTunes!
• Learn about the people that make the stacks come alive in this Library of Congress post.
• Is a Bad Economy Ever ‘Good’? Read this LOC post about public service announcements, the Ad Council, and the donation of ad inventory by papers struggling to stay afloat in the new economy.
• Learn more about the global recession and the arts in this round-up from The Source, National Library of New Zealand.
• Find, Out. NLNZ’s discovery service is now in beta!
• See Old McDonald … and Dick and Jane, a favorite of Jay Vissers, New York Public Library.
• The delphiniums are in bloom at the George Eastman House! Check out their trials with email in Picturing Rochester: Behind the Scenes.
• Keep up to date on all the happenings of the Swedish National Heritage Board during Almedal Week. Lots of information and presentation info, and links to translate it all into English.
• Museums as soup kitchens for the soul, from the Powerhouse Museum.
• These podcasts from the State Archives and Library of Florida will brighten any day. I’ve been listening as I compile this. :)
• Download the National Media Museum’s film schedule.
• First World War diary record series passes 400,000 images at the Australian War Memorial.
• The History of the John Oxley Library – Part Five, by the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Friday Fun!

Astoria, Oregon, Oregon State University Archives

Take a trip with the Oregon State University Archives! People and Places: Early “Oregon” – a great overview of OSU Archive’s latest release to the Commons.

Go Visit!

Ending July 5 - Caillebotte: The works of impressionist painter, Gustave Caillebotte, exclusively at the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn is the final stop on this tour and the only American venue for this exhibition.

Ending July 5 - Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization at Chicago’s Field Museum.

Now through July 11 - Foundry to Finish: Making of a Bronze Sculpture at the Getty; This exhibition and accompanying photographs and videos demonstrate the process of bronze casting as Adriean de Vries practiced it for Juggling Man.

July 20-24 - Summer School – How Do You Make Powerful Art? at the National Galleries of Scotland. Investigate art from Raphael to Damien Hirst, looking at why artists make art.