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There are about 20 million unique tags on Flickr today. So what if we could lend this wonderful power to some of the huge reference collections around the world? What if you could contribute your own description of a certain photo in, say, the Library of Congress' vast photographic archive, knowing that it might make the photo you've touched a little easier to find for the next person?

Well… you can.

Announcing The Commons.

The first incarnation of The Commons is a pilot project created in partnership with The Library of Congress. The Library has an enormous photo catalogue, containing over a million photos. The Library team has chosen about 1,500 photos each from two of their more popular collections to show on Flickr.