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.
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Flickr keyword searches not only the tags, but also the description. The words "state" and "library" and "nsw" are all the notes attached to this pot. As you point out, phrase searching is more specific.
Interestingly, an advanced search can restrict the search to the tags, excluding title and description. But that gives you no results :)
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