Create a Flickr account for your DLC
Free Flickr accounts can be created using any email account. The first and last name of your email account will become the name of your Flickr account handle, so use a first and last name that have relevance to your department and not that of an individual. For example, an email set up with:
firstname: mitschool
lastname: ofscience
will have the Flickr URL flickr.com/mitschoolofscience, which is semantic and has good search engine optimization.
Set your permissions
We suggest setting your permissions to friends and family. The path to these settings is: You > Your account > Privacy & Permissions > Who can access your original image files?
Your images will be searchable to anyone, but downloading is disabled unless you are sent a request. You can consider such requests and then grant the requester friends and family status to allow them access to your photos.
Set your license
We suggest setting the license for your content to All Rights Reserved:
You > Your account > Privacy & Permissions > What license will your content have?
This means that you must be asked for permission to use a photo. The various Creative Commons license protocols used by Flickr allow unrestricted access to your photos.
Naming conventions in Flickr
By default, Flickr assigns the file name of your source photo to the name that appears in the text block just below the photo, called the description. Since the file name may be a combination of letters and numbers that have no search relevance, we suggest copying the file name into the detail area below for your reference, then renaming the photo with a more relevant and searchable name.
The text block below the photo description is called the image detail. It should contain the name of the photographer, details on the photos, and any other relevant data such as the original file name.
Upload and share
Start by uploading a few photos, check your photo description and details, and share with other MIT users. You’ll discover a collaborative digital environment where the great stories of MIT are shared in photos.
Contact the MIT Media Library team for more information.