Keep an eye out here for new publications we produce. We even have a book!
About the Flickr Foundation
Flickr Commons
- Collection Development Policy October 2023
Content Mobility
- The State of Social Media Archiving Tools. Our survey reveals stark limitations across current social media archiving tools, which will inevitably lead to significant blindspots in our historic record. Published December 2025.
- Research Report: Building a Data Lifeboat for Flickr. Review our findings from co-design workshops and in-depth interviews conducted in October/November 2024. Published March 2025.
- White Paper: Building a Data Lifeboat for Flickr. Read along as we build our first prototypes and question the possible capacity of this new tool. Published November 2024.
New Curators
- A Generated Family of Man – investigating synthetic image generation to create a ‘companion publication’ to 1955 classic, The Family of Man October 2023
- View online at the Internet Archive
- Download 200-page, 100Mb pdf
- Read our production reports on the blog
