The Commons on Flickr holds the world’s public photography archives that you can annotate and access. These photos have No Known Copyright Restrictions.
We hope you’ll tag them with information, comment on them, add the National Archives as a contact and make a few faves. They welcome geotag suggestions, too, which you can do by adding machine tags as follows, if you know the coordinates of where the images were taken. Example: geo:lat=1.2345, geo:lon=1.2345
Hold on! If you remember a story from earlier this year regarding the Commons, kudos and good memory.
At the end of January, 2010 we read that the Flickr Commons would NOT be accepting, "new registrations or requests to join the Commons through 2010."
A couple of days later, the National Archives (U.S.) became a member. It's quite possible that the NARA membership was "in process" when the earlier announcement was made.
So, the National Archives (UK) was accepted in the past three months and this signals that Flickr is once again accepting new members/membership requests, the UK National Archives membership was "in process" from 2009, some other reason.
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