Working with the Public: Flickr SNAP (Singapore National Album of Pictures)

摘要

The Singapore National Album of Pictures (SNAP) is a library of photographs collected by the National Library Singapore (NLS). With this service, the public can access the pictures not only through NLS website but also through the public photo-sharing website, Flickr. The reduced resolution images are hosted on Flickr. This allows NLS collection to be more visible and more accessible through better search engine indexing. Using Flickr allows the public to collaborate by contributing information about images and sharing their own photographs on the Flickr website. Where photographs shared by the public are of interest to the collection, NLS would make a request to the owner to donate them to SNAP. This arrangement facilitates collaboration with the public while allowing the Library to manage the SNAP collection more effectively.