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by udia 1537 days ago
I am surprised that the Internet Archive does not fully control the storage of their assets, or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.
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nightpool 1537 days ago
To be clear: the actual scans are fine, what is removed was the ability to browse and search for these images on Flickr, with metadata & tags added by users, rather then having to manually download thousands of photos on IA, without any web-based search or preview. The linked article goes into this: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/5-million-book-i...

    But for all the greatness of Internet Archive (and it is truly great!) it doesn’t have the user-interface for images that Flickr has, the ability to save to galleries, add tags, and effectively search. That’s why it was such a marriage made in heaven. As far as we are aware, with the IA Book Images account gone, there is now no way to search for individual images from the hundreds of thousands of books at Internet Archive
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gowld 1537 days ago
> I am surprised that the Internet Archive does not fully control the storage of their assets,

> or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.

None of this is relevant. IA deleted their account because it wasn't a fit for Flickr. It was a mutually consensual separation.

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jrochkind1 1537 days ago
A mutually consensual separation that they are now both claiming was the other one's choice, not theirs.

Yeah, ok, I actually believe that.

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