Week Seven

Week Seven - Play activity

Post a photo a day - Exploring tags and image sharing

The play activity for week seven required students to post a photo a day for seven days via either Flickr or Instagram. As I was late to prepare my submission, I opted to select seven photos from seven non-consecutive days that I took in the weeks prior to the deadline. These were uploaded to Flickr in one day. The most recent shot was taken on August 20.

To view the photos in my photostream, head here - Kahli's photostream

To view the work of the cohort, head here - Class photos

Initially I just used creative titles and tags that identified whatever the image depicted. However, in order to help others in the INN333 class to find my images (without having to look for the INN333 Week 7 Activity (2013) group) I decided to add course related tags.

In terms of sharing my images with other people, I was happy to showcase my work and aimed to select the photos I found most aesthetically pleasing. While I'm happy for my work to be viewed, I'm not able to commit to the idea of other people using my images. I'm sure most people would do the right thing and credit the picture to the photographer, but I'm still uncertain of what could happen to my work as it moves from person to person.

Week Seven - Reflect activity

Photo sharing - can it play a role in personal or personal professional life?

This week students were required to reflect on one of three questions posted to Blackboard. I selected the following:

Can you see an application for photo sharing in your personal life? Or your personal professional life? Why or why not?

At first I thought, apart from being able to share photos with friends or tag them in photos I'd taken, there wasn't any practical application of photo sharing. However, upon further reflection and by looking at the idea of photo sharing as an application within a professional context, I was able to see some possibilities. As I'm studying to work in the library and information management sector there are a number of ways photo sharing could be used meaningfully within the workplace. In order to best demonstrate the possible ways in which photo sharing could benefit the LIS sector, I drew a table-like diagram. Links to concepts I made mention of are listed to the right of the images.

 - Although it wasn't mentioned the table to the right, the idea of sharing historical images was drawn from libraries who already have Flickr accounts (for e.g. the State Library of New South Wales).

- The respective Flickr diagrams mentioned can be found here and here. While diagrams and models aren't technically photos, through using a photo sharing platform like Flickr the creators are able to both manage the copyright and share their work.

- A definition of the GLAM concept can be found here. 

- Gold Coast Libraries Facebook page. 

When finding out about the LIS sector, collaboration and commons I also stumbled across this terrific SlideShare presentation by the National Copyright Unit:

Australian GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) and Creative Commons from National Copyright Unit, SCSEEC

After reviewing the possibilities of photo sharing in a professional context, I think in my personal life I'd eventually like to contribute to sites like Wikipedia through providing them with any quality work I produce through a creative commons license; it would be a great way to share knowledge and to encourage others to build on ideas.