- The Flickr Foundation has uploaded 1,000 top-view cultural photos to Filecoin to ensure long-term retention and public access.
- FileCoin and IPF enable distributed storage to keep archives safe even if the original host goes offline forever.
Fresh News comes from the world of online photography. The Flickr Foundation has completed the process of uploading 1,000 of the most popular photos from the Flickr Commons Collection to the distributed storage network Filecoin.
The collection, labeled “Flickr Commons 1K,” features historical shots of NASA, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. This step ensures that images often referenced by researchers, journalists and cultural activists will not be lost or scattered across vulnerable servers in time.
. @flickrfdn uploaded the most commonly seen images from Flickr Commons to Filecoin. These photos from NASA, the Library of Congress and others are part of a global effort to make cultural photography accessible across generations. pic.twitter.com/tsychlgmjp
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Not only that, the initiative utilizes the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) protocol so that copies of the photographs spread across many nodes. This means that if one server goes down, the archive is maintained elsewhere without delaying access.
Adding Filecoins as an incentive layer ensures that photos of 1900s Apollo Landing or Street Portraits are available for download by great grandsons in the future.
Why switch to distributed storage?
On the other hand, traditional storage often stumbles with space limitations and the risk of data center failure. Imagine a family archive stored on a single hard drive. When you hit the floor, all your memories disappear. The same concept applies to digital history repositories. Therefore, Flickr Foundation is heading down a decentralized path to avoid relying on a single hosting provider.
CNF previously highlighted the portrait project. It maintains the website using IPF and Filecoin even when major hosts go down. As long as there are people on the network that have a copy, the page is still up. Even if all servers go down, Filecoin still retains an archive version, that is, a “black box” of data.
Additionally, last week Filecoin supported DocumentCloud with secure court records and government documents from Cludcloud after the original publisher was forced to close. The healthcare and public services sector is currently considering similar solutions to mitigate data leaks and intensive obstacles.
However, your Filecoin journey doesn’t stop with photographs and legal documents. Also in May, SingularityNet developers reported how to save Metadata to .proto files via Filecoin’s Lighthouse Integration. With the flexibility of access through subscription APIs, data processing in AI and Web3 applications makes parking items easier in collective warehouses where fees are paid by everyone.
At this point, the public might ask, “What does it have to me as a mere vintage photography enthusiast?” The answer lies in open access. All uploaded digital objects can be searched by anyone at any time without a gate charge. If previous researchers had to queue up in physical archives, they could simply open the IPFS link, and the results of the cultural exploration will be displayed on the screen in seconds.
Of course, the upload of “Flickr Commons 1K” not only highlights the Flickr Foundation’s commitment to cultural preservation, but also shows new ways to maintain the world’s visual heritage through Web3 technology.
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