From the most recent issue of The Scout Report. [This site seems to have some "social software" features built in. It will be interesting to see how it compares with the new ARTstor functionality that Mary Clare will be showing interested librarians in October (details still being worked out].
"This year, the Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI), which is dedicated to promoting the use of Smithsonian photographic resources -roughly 13 million images located in approximately seven hundred collections - launched a new Web site.
"The Web site serves several purposes: an online repository of images, a gateway to exhibitions, and a community where visitors can find not only images, but can also connect with others with similar interests, ranging from experts to amateurs.
"The site also includesEnter the Frame, an interactive interface where visitors can browse images from 19 Smithsonian museums, arrange selected images into sequences, and tag, or apply descriptive keywords to images. Sequences can then be saved,and viewed by subsequent visitors. For example, a sequence entitled 'August'- submitted August 21, 2006 - included an 1855 Daguerreotype of a tree-lined street in Savannah, Georgia; a cyanotype portrait of Thomas Smillie (chief photographer for the Smithsonian from 1870 until his death in 1917) from the Smithsonian Archives; a 1992 photo of an African girl with flowers in her hair from the American Art Museum; and an 1865 albumen print taken by Julia Margaret Cameron, among its 10 selections."
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