Wikis

I have had a little play with wikis through my involvement with NSLA's Information Access Plan. I posted a paper on rights management by Jennie Berryman here https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/NSLAIAP/Rights+Management+Discussion+Paper
and some information about authentication on the wiki hosted by the NLA. It is probably a good way to work collaboratively but I must admit I did find it intimidating contributing & commenting in such a public space. I think others must feel the same way because there has been very little activity since the workshop.

Flickr

I see on Lorcan's weblog the Powerhouse Museum is contributing 50 images a week to Flickr. It has joined the Library of Congress in the Commons on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/commons As Lorcan points out this is all about aggregating supply and demand and also combining audience & professional metadata. Seb Chan at the Museum comments "tonnes of tags have been added and they have been of a quality we have nor experienced in our other tagging projects" .There were some interesting interactions with users including a discussion about an image of a long demolished pub in the Rocks in Yahoo Answers.

Searching State Library of NSW on Flickr I found 241 hits including some false drops - photos of ceramic pots by clayglazepots. I couldn't see the phrase in the tags so the words must have been scattered thru the artist's extensive biog. Repeating the search as a phrase using inverted commas improved the results producing 119 hits.