contentdm2flickr is an interface to publish images and metadata from CONTENTdm^® and/or other OAI-enabled image repositories to Flickr^®.

This project was developed by members of the web team at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, and was inspired by the Bulk CONTENTdm to Flickr project at MU-Ohio.

Why contentdm2flickr?

• Flickr is one of the most popular cloud based photo-sharing websites.
• Flickr provides statistics, organization of pictures into collections and sets, allows user tagging, geo-tagging, comments, and greater SEO, to name a few.
• As of August 2011 CONTENTdm provides no native mechanism to transport both the metadata and pictures to external sites like Flickr.

What is this tool?

• A simple web-based PHP application to export images from CONTENTdm or other OAI-based image repositories to Flickr
• The tool captures both the images and their metadata
• The tool then pushes those images into a Flickr set (a grouping of pictures within Flickr).

Examples

Here are some of the VCU Libraries collections published on Flickr using this software:

• PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly - on Flickr, in CONTENTdm
• Medical Artifacts Collection on Flickr, in CONTENTdm
• Jackson Ward Historic District on Flickr, in CONTENTdm

Attribution

The code uses following open-source projects, thanks for your help!

• OAI Client class from the CWIS project - http://scout.wisc.edu
• jQuery Dynatree - http://code.google.com/p/dynatree/
• phpFlickr - http://code.google.com/p/phpflickr/