British Library sticks 1 million pics on Flickr, asks for help making them useful

Posted by BernardSwiss on Dec 30, 2013 8:26 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright
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In 2008, the British Library, in partnership with Microsoft, embarked on a project to digitize thousands of out-of-copyright books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Included within those books were maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and more. The Library has uploaded more than a million of them onto Flickr and released them into the public domain. It's now asking for help.

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