‘The idea that tens of billions of photos would just disappear - we couldn’t let that happen,’ says MacAskill. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. That changed though when Don and Ben MacAskill, founders of SmugMug, came in possession of Flickr after SmugMug’s acquisition back in 2018. ‘Firstly, to increase exposure to the amazing content currently held in the public collections of civic institutions around the world and secondly, to facilitate the collection of knowledge about these collections, with the hope that this information would feed back into the catalogs, making them richer and easier to search.’Īs Flickr has gone through various owners in the years since, The Commons has come under threat of being shuttered. In collaboration with the United States Library of Congress, The Commons was created.Ī screenshot of the Flickr Commons website.Īccording to Oates, The Commons was created with two main goals.
The groundwork for the organization was laid back in 2008, when George Oates, a designer at Flickr, wanted to develop a program specifically designed to allow cultural institutions from around the world to share their image collections. Flickr and its parent company SmugMug have announced its expanding its efforts to promote and preserve historic and culturally significant photographs for future generations through The Flickr Foundation, a new US 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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