Sharing images through Flickr
Flickr is a popular web site for hosting images and organising communities of interest around images on any given subject.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has established a group on Flickr to allow anyone to share their images of identified species of plants, animals or microorganisms. This group can be found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life/.
Anyone with a Flickr account can contribute images to this group. The only requirements are that the images should be licensed with a Public Domain or Creative Commons licence and tagged with machine tags indicating the species represented. These requirements are fully explained on the group page. Images shared in this way will ultimately be indexed and exposed through the EOL web site.
The ALA is also interested in making it easy for photographers to share their images and plans to work with EOL on this initiative. If you have good photographs of Australian (or other) species and are interested in making them available to the ALA and to EOL, please follow the guidelines on the Flickr EOL images group page. The ALA will search this group for images of Australian species and make them visible through the ALA web site. To make it easier to recognise images actually taken in Australia, it would be useful if photographers could tag such photos with the tag “geo:country=Australia”.
If you have any questions, please contact us at atlasoflivingaustralia@csiro.au.
