Comments on: Flickr, your electronic photo database?

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:57:08 +0000

great article.

i was rebuilding a webapp of a friend and moved all the image handling over to flickr, major bonus with the pro account; now all the bandwidth weights are handled by flickr’s awesome image retrieval system.

also managed to offload the email handling to google apps, and improved google analytics to get better reports rather than doing it myself.

great stuff!

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By: Dean J

Dean J — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:13:44 +0000

William & Mary, a Virginia public, has multiple Flickr accounts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/william-and-mary/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swemmedia/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wm_masonschool/

Wayne State: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynestateuniversity/

UCF: http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofcentralflorida/

There are plenty more…just search for “University” on Flickr and hit the “people” tab.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:58:56 +0000

We wanted to use Flickr as a photo management system for a new marketing web site but our legal department could not reach an agreement with Yahoo around indemnification. All I know is that as a state institution, we have to follow State Attorney General guidelines surrounding this issue. Anyone else in the world of higher education have this same struggle? Suggestions?

By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:59:12 +0000

Scott – I would assume that you/the university would own the copyright to the images? It’s really no different than the photos sitting on your computer, they are just ‘in the cloud’ and more easily accessible by others on campus. If you use the model above and only allow ‘friends’ or ‘family’ access to the photos, YOU control access and usage.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:20:13 +0000

Thanks for the info. I am the photographer at BCIT (www.bcit.ca). Looking for a good way of spreading photos around to our multiple departments.

Question: Once uploaded, who owns the copyright to the images? Who has access and usage rights? Does anyone know of issues around this?

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Help! I need to organize photos! - betterthanblank — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:00:47 +0000

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By: Eric Stoller's Blog

Eric Stoller's Blog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:09:30 +0000

Flickr – institutional photo database…

Flickr is the best online photo management and sharing application. It is simple to use and relatively inexpensive. A Flickr-Pro account is only $24.95 per year. The benefits are incredible:

Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per photo)
Unlimited video up…

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:34:34 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. It seems that Wordpress decided to stop emailing me when I had comments, I was a little bummed at first!

@Mike – It seems that Original is only available for Pro users, according to their FAQ’s. Good thought on adding/linking photos as well.

@Another Mike – 2 staff members?!?! What did you do to get that awesome honor? Haha seriously, that is great. A lot of schools aren’t even to 1 yet. Very exciting.

@Jeremy – I think I can foot the $25 bill for this one. Your to-do list: 1) upgrade to Pro, 2) get a .com, 3) email me about hosting

@Mark and @Dennis – thanks for your comments. Good to hear!

@Heidi – Totally agree about archiving. What implications do you think there might be if Microsoft buys Yahoo! (who owns Flickr)? Could things change? I am the same as you, meshing personal and professional images into 1 account. I think I will start a separate account for BU soon though. Thanks for the links as well. I use that badge on my personal page (www.bradjward.com), but it could be a great addition to the side of http://go.butler.edu/cs.

@Kara Welcome! Glad you found us. Added your school as a friend on Flickr, looking forward to seeing more campus shots!

I love learning more from commenters than my original thoughts when I post!

By: Kara

Kara — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:24:18 +0000

I’ve started to do this at Medaille College (http://www.flickr.com/photos/medaille). Flickr is great for integrating pictures into our news web site (medaillenews.com) and facebook accounts, too.