BuildingScholarlyFlickr - Raymond Yee's Wiki

On September 9, 2004, I posted

my first picture on Flickr. Over the last nine months, working with my images on Flickr has become a central part of my online life. I went from being rather blasé about uploading my photos to changing the whole way I create, process, share, and think about digital imagery because of interacting with Flickr. I can definitely see how having a service like Flickr can also change a researcher's use of digital images. What would it take to Flickr or Flickr-like services available to the UC Berkeley community at a economically and intellectually sustainable service?

Let me list some of the issues involved in figuring out the answers to this question:

Does Flickr indeed offer a service that is more or less what researchers/teachers would use at UC Berkeley?
What features would make it especially useful to our audience?
Technically, how can one create a system with Flickr-like functionality? Buy the service from Flickr? Build a new software system? Buy/adapt existing software? (DSpace, Fedora, something else?)
What are Flickr's competitors doing (like smugmug and Zoto)
what services are available? (We can compare Flickr Services with zoto's api
hosting issues: Flickr gives me 2GB/month for $25/year with as much storage I can get in with that bandwidth. This amount is significantly greater than I would expect to get for basic Linux hosting for that amount of money. The amount that flickr provides feels very comfortable to me as a power user: comfortably more than I am using. How much storage would our users want and need? How much can we provide and at what rate?

There are a lot of questions and I will come back to them over time.

[Writing in progress....]