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3,000,000 views on Flickr Commons!

Av: Anna Boman den 4 April 2013 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 0 Comments
Archaeological excavation in 1891 of a Stone Age settlement in a cave at the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Hjalmar Stolpe

Archaeological excavation in 1891 of a Stone Age settlement in a cave at the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Hjalmar Stolpe

We are proud to tell that the photographs of the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons now have been viewed more than three million times. This striking number was reached and passed this week and is surely worthy of some attention.

Our participation on The Commons on Flickr has allowed so many people from all over the world to view, use and interact on the images we show as samples from our collections. So far, we have created 22 sets with different kinds of images from Sweden and other European countries and lately also with photos of old drawings, watercolours and prints. Helpful and clever members of the Flickr community have in comments provided new and useful information to 10 % of the images (which we have added to the information in our photo database online, Kulturmiljöbild). It’s always very encouraging to read all the kind and cheerful approval of the images and to view the many comparative photographs that have been posted.

A big ‘Thank You’ to all you viewers and Flickr members who have taken your time to view and interact on our photostream on Flickr Commons since the start in March 2009! We are so pleased to share the Swedish cultural heritage with you. :)

Crossing between Götgatan and Ringvägen streets at Skanstull in the southern part of Stockholm city. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1943

Crossing between Götgatan and Ringvägen streets at Skanstull in the southern part of Stockholm city. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1943

Identified by a Flickr community member: The church of St-Jean in Fribourg, at Planche-Supérieure, Fribourg, Switzerland. Photo: Berit Wallenberg, 1936

Identified by a Flickr community member: The church of St-Jean in Fribourg, at Planche-Supérieure, Fribourg, Switzerland. Photo: Berit Wallenberg, 1936

Flickr Commons – 5 years celebration!

Av: Anna Boman den 16 January 2013 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons, Foto and Webb. 0 Comments
Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. From Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons

Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. A popular image from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown

Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. A popular image from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown

Five years ago, on the 16th of January, 2008 The Commons was launched as a part of  Flickr, the international website for photo sharing with millions of viewers and users. The initiator of The Commons was the Library of Congress in the U.S.A., in collaboration with Flickr. Since then, more than 250 000 beautiful, interesting and amazing images have been uploaded to The Commons.

56 cultural heritage institutions from all over the world are today showing and sharing parts of their historical photo collections on Flickr Commons. The viewers are invited to help describe the photographs, all labelled “No known copyright restrictions” and free to download and use for different purposes.

Cyanotype from Stockholm, Sweden, 1901. Photo: Carl Curman

Cyanotype from Stockholm, Sweden, 1901. Most viewed photo from the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons. Photo: Carl Curman

Since the Swedish National Heritage Board joined in March 2009, our uploaded photos (today more than 1 100) have been largely viewed, commented on and used, and about 9 % of them have had valuable information added in comments by Flickr members. To be part of The Commons is really rewarding in many ways – not to mention all the joy it brings!

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr, the Library of Congress has created four picture galleries – Flickr Commons Favorites 1, 2, 3, 4 – with images chosen among the most popular and interesting on The Commons.

Happy 5th Birthday Flickr Commons!

One wheel motor cycle. Photo from Nationaal Archief on Flickr Commons.

One wheel motor cycle. A popular photo from Nationaal Archief on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown

 

 

Carl Curmans bilder på Pinterest

Av: Johan Carlström den 19 June 2012 i Europeana, Foto and K-samsök. 1 Comment


Skeppsbron vid kejsar Wilhelm II:s besök. Foto: Carl Curman, 1888

Pinterest är bland det senaste på social media-himmelen och är en foto-delningssajt där användarna kan samla bilder baserat på teman, t ex händelser eller intressen. Europeana gör just nu ett test med att lägga ut (eller “pinna”) bilder på Pinterest från de deltagande institutionerna. Bland annat har man lagt upp grupper om Art Nouveau och posters.

Under de kommande veckorna kommer Europeana att lägga ut bilder tagna av svenske Carl Curman. Carl Curmans bilder återfinns i Riksantikvarieämbetets fotodatabas.  Bilderna är uppdelade på tre teman; Personer, Landskap och Stockholm. Samlingen är vald utifrån att de är upphovsrättsligt fria samt välgjorda och tankeväckande.

Det ska bli intressant att se hur detta test faller ut, hur mycket bilderna delas vidare och används.

>>Johan Carlström jobbar med K-samsök och Europeana på Riksantikvarieämbetet.

Ministrarna visar upp Europeana

Av: Maria Jansson den 23 May 2012 i Bibliotek/arkiv, Flickr Commons, Foto, Internationellt, K-samsök, Okategoriserad and Webb. 0 Comments

Europeana är platsen där du kan dyka ner i hela Europas kulturarv. Och det var just det som många av Europas kulturministrar och andra företrädare gjorde under ett event i Bryssel på Europadagen den 9 maj. De hade fått välja ut ett favoritföremål från sitt land som finns presenterat i Europeana och sedan berätta om detta.

Sverige hade valt en bild av Carl Curman, en Stockholmsvy tagen en vinterdag 1900. Bilden finns så väl i i Europeana som på Flickr Commons där det är den sven­ska bild som är mest kom­menterad. Tusen­tals män­niskor runt om i världen har lovor­dat  bildens skön­het.

Att valet föll på just denna bild förklaras i Sveriges blogginlägg :
“bilden, som rep­re­sen­tant för det sven­ska innehål­let i Euro­peana visar hur använ­dar­nas efter­frå­gan och intresse kan och bör styra pri­or­i­teringarna av vad som ska dig­i­talis­eras och dig­i­talt till­gäng­göras av kulturarvet.(…) Är det bild­kom­po­si­tio­nen som fascinerar eller den vackra blå fär­gen som till­ta­lar eller är det bara det his­nande his­toriska per­spek­tivet att den visar något som verk­li­gen fanns för över 100 år sedan? Det är svårt att svara på, det räcker kanske med att kon­stat­era att den i sin enkel­het är ett vardagligt mästerverk.”

Läs mer om vilka föremål som utvalts av de andra länderna.

Om Europeana

I den stora europeiska databasen Europeana finns information om många miljoner digitala objekt med syftet att tillgängliggöra Europas kulturella och vetenskapliga arv för alla i ett virtuellt bibliotek. Europeana är initierat av den europeiska kommissionen och EU:s medlemsländer. Riksantikvarieämbetet deltar aktivt för att öka mängden information i Europeana liksom att öka kännedom om den europeiska kulturarvsportalen.

Berit Wallenberg on Flickr Commons

Av: Anna Boman den 22 March 2012 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 2 Comments


Berit Wallenberg and archaeologists Söderberg and Althin at an excavation in Nälsta, Uppland, Sweden, in May 1930. Photo: Unknown

Berit Wallenberg (1902–1995) was a Swedish archaeologist and art historian. She began photographing as a teenager, and brought her camera on the many travels she made in Sweden and abroad, often on her own and under modest conditions.

She devoted her life to studies of art history, architecture and archaeology, and she used her camera for documentation. Still, many of the photos show other people, family members, fellow students and friends.


The Town Hall in Magdeburg, Germany, in June 1927. Photo: Berit Wallenberg

Most of the photos in the collection on Flickr Commons are from the period 1920-1937, taken at home in Sweden or on travels in Sweden and in ten other European countries: Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England), Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

Berit Wallenberg was born into the influential Wallenberg family with bankers, industrialists, politicians and diplomats. Two photos from Sweden show her cousin’s son Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947). Read more about him and see the photos in an earlier post on this blog.


Boy in a courtyard in Ystad, Skåne, Sweden, in July 1930. Photo: Berit Wallenberg

The entire Berit Wallenberg photo collection consists of more than 25 000 photos. About 5000 are today digitized in the Swedish National Heritage Board’s photo database online, thanks to financial contribution from the Berit Wallenberg Foundation.

We wish you all very welcome to Flickr Commons to meet Berit Wallenberg in Sweden and to follow her on her travels around Western Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.


Women in Montignac, France, in August 1937. Photo: Berit Wallenberg

>> Anna Boman works with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board

Three years on Flickr Commons

Av: Anna Boman den 16 March 2012 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 2 Comments

Remix Photo by Maja Larsson (CC by-nc-sa). Original photos by unknown photographer (Swedish National Heritage Board) and by Dolan Halbrook. (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr, with links to the originals.)

On March 17th, the Swedish National Heritage Board celebrates three rewarding and exciting years on The Commons on Flickr, showing and sharing photos with no known copyright restrictions from our collections.

Our presence on The Commons has largely responded to the expectations we had in the beginning. Here is what we wrote on this blog on March 17th 2009.

What happened since?

Let the facts speak:

  • More than 1 980 000 views on our account on Flickr Commons.
  • More than 3 750 Flickr contacts, from more than 70 countries worldwide.
  • A clear effect of more visitors to our photo database Kulturmiljöbild through the persistent links.
  • 9 % of the photos we show on Flickr Commons have been provided with new information, thanks to attentive and devoted Flickr Community members. This user generated knowledge has helped to improve the information in our photo database.
  • The photos have been commented on, tagged, shown in groups and galleries on Flickr and marked as favourites. They have been used in media, on websites and blogs, and spread through social media. They have also served for fun and creativity being remixed.

Slottsgatan Street in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden. The street was identified by a Flickr member who also posted a recent comparative photo in a comment. Photo: Unknown (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr Commons, with comments.)


Gustaf, Carin and Lilly in Järvsö, Hälsingland, Sweden. From our latest collection with colour photos by Fredrik Bruno, from the 1940s in Sweden and Norway.

Winter in Humlegården park in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Carl Curman

Some gratifying examples of media effects:

A big and warm Thank You to all you who have made our Flickr Commons experience so successful and fun! See you on The Commons! :)

One of Sweden’s oldest rune stones in Krogsta, Uppland. Photo: Erik Brate

>> Anna Boman works with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board

Happy Valentines Day #loveheritage

Av: Henrik Löwenhamn den 14 February 2012 i Foto. 0 Comments

Mr and Mrs Samuelsson, Stigåsa, Småland, Sweden
Mr and Mrs Samuelsson, Stigåsa, Småland, Sweden

As you may have noticed, today the world is celebrating love. The people behind Ask archivists thought that the archives all over the world were full of pictures and stories about love so they have started the hashtag #loveheritage on Twitter and asked all archives to join in.

In our archives we have a lot of photos that shows love, so we are going to post some of them today. The first one (above) are from our collection of Einar Ericis photos and shows Carl Anders and Anna Lena Samuelsson from Stigåsa in Småland, Sweden in the year of 1932. More photos from our collections can be found at Flickr.

We also posted this during the day:
Mr and Mrs Fröding
 Vitlyckehällen
Wedding at Brahe church
A couple in love

We also created a feed at Twingly to show all tweets that were posted with #loveheritage.

Raoul Wallenberg – two student photographs

Av: Anna Boman den 18 January 2012 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 2 Comments


Raoul Wallenberg as a senior high school graduate in May 1930, together with his mother Maj von Dardel. Photo: Berit Wallenberg

The 17th of January 2012 was the start of the Raoul Wallenberg Year, celebrated in memory of the Swedish businessman, architect and diplomat, born in Stockholm on August 4th, 1912. Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of thousands of Jewish Hungarians during his diplomatic service at the Swedish Legation in Budapest in the last period of the Second World War. On January 17th, 1945, Raoul was arrested by the Soviet military and disappeared for ever from the Western world. He was imprisoned in Moscow, where he died in 1947, according to official Soviet sources.

The Swedish National Heritage Board keeps in it’s holdings a collection of photographs by the Swedish archaeologist and art historian Berit Wallenberg, a ten years older female relative of Raoul. The photograph above was taken by Berit at Raoul’s graduation day on May 13th, 1930 at Nya Elementar Senior High School in Stockholm. By his side stands his mother Maj, remarried von Dardel in 1918. Raoul’s father Raoul Oscar Wallenberg deceased three months before he was born.

The second of the two photographs of Raoul in Berit Wallenberg’s collection shows Raoul in a group of fellow students at the graduation day.


Raoul Wallenberg third student to the right in the upper row. Photo: Berit Wallenberg

The photographs by Berit Wallenberg, from Sweden and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, will be the next photo collection to be shown on the Swedish National Heritage Board’s page on Flickr Commons, starting later this spring. More about it to come…

Read more about the Raoul Wallenberg Year 2012 at the home page of the Government Offices of Sweden.

Fredrik Bruno on Flickr Commons

Av: Anna Boman den 16 August 2011 i Aktuellt, Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 2 Comments


Skanstull in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1943

The 1940:s in Sweden and Norway – in colour! The Swedish National Heritage Board presents a new collection on Flickr Commons with photos by Fredrik Daniel Bruno (1882-1971), who was a town engineer in Hudiksvall in the northern part of central Sweden. He was also a diligent amateur photographer.

Fredrik Bruno took colour photos on travels around Sweden and Norway in the 1940:s and early 1950s, loading his camera with either Kodachrome or Agfacolor diapositive film. Most of the travels in Sweden were probably official and related to his profession. His field of interest as a town engineer is well reflected in the frequent motifs of towns and cities, buildings and public parks. Sweden’s two largest cities Stockholm, the capital, and Göteborg (Gothenburg) are well represented. Some photos are from the Swedish countryside and some are from Norway. The Norwegian photos, all from 1948, show towns and landscapes. They seem to be from a private holiday trip.


Röros, Norway. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1948

The new collection “Fredrik Bruno” is arranged in two sets, “Sweden” and “Norway”. Most of the photos are from the 1940:s, a few are from the early 1950:s.

Some of the photos from Sweden will be linked in the description field to a recent photo in our photo database, showing exactly the same view in 2010-2011. These photos are taken within a project at the Swedish National Heritage Board, where selected views catched by Fredrik Bruno have been photographed anew to illustrate change (or lack of change) over time, mostly in the urban environment.

Join us on a colourful trip around Sweden and Norway! Hope you’ll enjoy – we really look forward to share these photos with you, and we hope to see comparative photos in the comments. :)


Stigbergskajen quay in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1944

>> Anna Boman works with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board

The 1940s in colour

Av: Anna Boman den 30 May 2011 i Bilder, Flickr Commons and Foto. 1 Comment


Uppsala, Sweden, 1943. Photo: Fredrik Bruno

A pink parasol in the Swedish town of Uppsala in 1943…cyclists on a street in Härnösand in 1944… a restaurant in Gothenburg in 1944… people viewing Kjølingefjell mountain in Norway from afar…

We are preparing for a new collection on the Flickr Commons page of the Swedish National Heritage Board, to appear in August 2011. Fredrik Bruno, a Swedish town engineer from Hudiksvall, took a lot of colour diapositives in the 1940s while travelling in Sweden and Norway. Most photos are from a number of Swedish towns, some are from the Swedish countryside and some from Norway.

Enjoy some samples from the forthcoming collection!


Härnösand, Sweden, 1944. Photo: Fredrik Bruno


Henriksberg Restaurant, Gothenburg/Göteborg, Sweden, 1944. Photo: Fredrik Bruno


Kjølingefjell mountain, Norway, 1948. Photo: Fredrik Bruno

>> Anna Boman is working with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board