Wonderful! Of course, you know what I'm going to ask for next don't you...? - Cameron Neylon

Brilliant! - Bill Hooker

Thanks all! This was a fun little diversion. I'm curious to see if anyone actually *adds* any images... - Todd Harris

This is great. Makes you wonder if we could build quite complex data management systems using APIs to existing web services (Flickr, various Google tools, FriendFeed...) and aggregating to a portal. - Neil Saunders

This looks so cool and simple that I can't really grasp why nobody hasn't done this before. Not sure what Flickr's TOS says about this but it's quite brilliant. - Ricardo Vidal

Cameron: happy to contribute! Ricardo: I think as long as images are linked back to Flickr, this is within the TOS. We'll see the next time someone decides to LWP::Simple their way through our expression patterns! - Todd Harris

Neil: I've been working along the exact same lines, building resources for less well-characterized (and less well-funded) organisms. You need a foundation upon which to layer third party services. I'm using a genome browser with rudimentary annotations: gene models with stable identifiers. It's a great leg up if you have limited resources and presents some intriguing mashup possibilities for larger operations, too. - Todd Harris

The question I was going to ask was about the license - could it be CC-BY by default? But yes, using Flickr for research image management is really a no brainer - it would be great to wire up something more complex and automated. To a certain extent this is what Jean-Claude already does but withou automated aggregation. - Cameron Neylon

Ah, I see. I got my 2.0 communications lines crossed. I tend to think the licensing should be left up to the contributor. I'm not familiar with Jean-Claude's work. Linky? - Todd Harris

@Todd: http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ - Bill Hooker

Great idea - Marcin