From there you can go to the Flickr photoset or to the profile page which is another version of the statement. This mashup is one of the things you can do with Flickr and other 3rd party sites. There are a lot of things Flickr does very well and very easily, and there are some that they do not do well. For example, in order to distance this set from being an official SCPL site, and to distance the library as a place where only verified factual information is offered, as opposed to a social software corporate site, where all comments seem to have equal value and validity, I needed to create an html page, since the only other option for an opening page was the "profile," which is not like a homepage, since it is not the first thing you see when you go to someone's Flickr photos.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Using Flickr mashups
Here is a mosaic, a mashup of Flickr and bighugelabs.com. This is from a photoset of historic photos taken by photographer Margo Montgomery that were donated by the photographer to the Santa Cruz Public Library system and will appear in the Local History Photographs Collection on the new redesigned website, but for now they can be found, with an introduction and statement of what they are and what they are not, at http://senna.sjsu.edu/dfaires/vwillis/SCPLearthquakephotosonflickr.html.
From there you can go to the Flickr photoset or to the profile page which is another version of the statement. This mashup is one of the things you can do with Flickr and other 3rd party sites. There are a lot of things Flickr does very well and very easily, and there are some that they do not do well. For example, in order to distance this set from being an official SCPL site, and to distance the library as a place where only verified factual information is offered, as opposed to a social software corporate site, where all comments seem to have equal value and validity, I needed to create an html page, since the only other option for an opening page was the "profile," which is not like a homepage, since it is not the first thing you see when you go to someone's Flickr photos.
From there you can go to the Flickr photoset or to the profile page which is another version of the statement. This mashup is one of the things you can do with Flickr and other 3rd party sites. There are a lot of things Flickr does very well and very easily, and there are some that they do not do well. For example, in order to distance this set from being an official SCPL site, and to distance the library as a place where only verified factual information is offered, as opposed to a social software corporate site, where all comments seem to have equal value and validity, I needed to create an html page, since the only other option for an opening page was the "profile," which is not like a homepage, since it is not the first thing you see when you go to someone's Flickr photos.
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