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This chapter focuses the platformization and datafication of picture collections online. The aim is to consider how or in what ways the transformation from analogue to digital changes the archive qualitatively and to scrutinize how digitization may alter the way we conceive of picture archives, particularly photographic archives, and of photographs as such. The focus lies on information infrastructure, that is how both textual and visual information is organized, classified and made accessible with Flickr Commons as an example. Through five visualizations this chapter points out how the underlying systemic thinking in an online platforms like Flickr Commons is based on a bibliographic tradition of library collections rather than information infrastructure used in archives and museum collection.

Keywords: datafication ; digitization ; FlickrCommons ; information infrastructure ; photography ; picture archives ; platformization ; Preus museum ; Swedish Heritage Board ; visualization

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Picturing Platformization: Information Infrastructures in Picture Archives Online
Intellect , 57 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389760_5
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