Allmänningar: alla vinner!

Library of Congress har utvärderat sitt Flickr-projekt The Commons (där man lagt ut ca 5000 historiska bilder för att göra dem mer tillgängliga, berika dem med information av Flickrs användare och lära sig mer om hur social etikettering fungerar; nämnt här i januari) och man verkar vara nöjda. Läs rapporten "For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project" (PDF).

Här är några resultat:

• As of October 23, 2008, there have been 10.4 million views of the photos on Flickr.  
• 79% of the 4,615 photos have been made a "favorite" (i.e., are incorporated into personal Flickr collections). 
• Over 15,000 Flickr members have chosen to make the Library of Congress a "contact," creating a photostream of Library images on their own accounts. 
• For Bain images placed on Flickr, views/downloads rose approximately 60% for the period January-May 2008, compared to the same time period in 2007.
  
• Views/downloads of FSA/OWI image files placed on Flickr rose approximately 13%. 
• 7,166 comments were left on 2,873 photos by 2,562 unique Flickr accounts. 
• 67,176 tags were added by 2,518 unique Flickr accounts. 
• 4,548 of the 4,615 photos have at least one community-provided tag. 
• Less than 25 instances of user-generated content were removed as inappropriate.  
• More than 500 Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) records have been enhanced with new information provided by the Flickr Community. 
• Average monthly visits to all PPOC Web pages rose 20% over the five month period of January-May 2008, compared to the same period in 2007.

Något för andra att lära av. Tänk om man t.ex. gjort samma sak med tegelstenen "Dokument Stockholm".