Talk about a home-run partnership! The Library of Congress is now sharing a huge part of their collection on Flickr. This is why:

“If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90 percent of our readers could probably explain better than me).”  

That’s a quote from the Library’s blog posted today. Check out their Flickr page. I can see clients with some older, historical photos posting at least semi-low res photos on Flickr for the whole world to see. Wouldn’t you want to see what Gary looked like in 1982? I would.