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Europeana 2025

Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Saving billions of things on social media: Data Lifeboat to the Rescue?
Flickr turned 21 years old in February 2025. It’s a grandma of the web, and has grown into a collection of tens of billions of images; a unique representation of our shared histories over the last 20+ years. The Flickr Foundation was established in 2022 to keep Flickr pictures visible for 100 years (whether they’re on Flickr or not). It is working on a decentralization solution called Data Lifeboat, a self-contained, well-designed archival unit containing a selected sliver of Flickr pictures and their metadata. Join this session to see an overview of the prototyping and user research to date!

Here’s George and The Boss of Europeana, the delightful and esteemed Harry Verwayen.

Harry Verwayen and George Oates at Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Here are George’s slides from the day:

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Welcome Rachel Frick to Our Board!

Digital libraries and cultural heritage leader, Rachel L. Frick, joins our Board of Directors.

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Data Lifeboats at the XVI International Conference of the Image

Our second stop on the European conference circuit was Paris, for the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image where George and Tori shared the release of Data Lifeboat and the importance of citizen-driven collecting.

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International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap

Tori shares her reflections on a recent conference in Florence, where she detailed our progress on the Data Lifeboat alpha alongside the value of collecting from social media for heritage practitioners.

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