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===Organization=== The images a photographer uploads to Flickr go into their sequential "photostream", the basis of a Flickr account. All photostreams can be displayed as a justified view, a [[slide show]], a "detail" view or a date stamped archive. Clicking on a photostream image opens it in the interactive "photopage" alongside data, comments and facilities for embedding images on external sites. Users may label their uploaded images with titles and descriptions, and images may be [[tag (metadata)|tagged]], either by the uploader or by other users, if the uploader permits it. These text components enable computer searching of Flickr. Flickr was an early website to implement [[tag cloud]]s, which were used until 2013, providing access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. Tagging was further revised in the photopage redesign of March 2014. Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of [[folksonomy]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Vander Wal|first=Thomas|author-link=Thomas Vander Wal|title=Folksonomy Research Needs Cleaning Up|date=January 17, 2006|url=http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1781|access-date=September 4, 2006|archive-date=September 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909095704/http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1781|url-status=live}}</ref> Users can organize their Flickr photos into "albums" (formerly "sets") which are more flexible than the traditional folder-based method of organizing files, as one photo can belong to one album, many albums, or none at all. Flickr provides code to embed albums into blogs, websites and forums. Flickr albums represent a form of categorical [[metadata]] rather than a physical hierarchy. [[Geotagging]] can be applied to photos in albums,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gossinteractive.com/flickrsets|title=Creating Flickr Sets Video|work=Goss Interactive|date=February 26, 2010|access-date=February 26, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503085216/http://www.gossinteractive.com/flickrsets|archive-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> and any albums with geotagging can be related to a map using imapflickr. The resulting map can be embedded in a website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gossinteractive.com/flickrmap|title=Mapping Flickr Sets Video|work=Goss Interactive|date=February 26, 2010|access-date=February 26, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503085211/http://www.gossinteractive.com/flickrmap|archive-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> Flickr albums may be organized into "collections", which can themselves be further organized into higher-order collections. Organizr is a [[Web application]] for organizing photos within a Flickr account that can be accessed through the Flickr interface. It allows users to modify tags, descriptions and set groupings, and to place photos on a world map (a feature provided in conjunction with [[Yahoo! Maps]]). It uses [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] to emulate the look, feel and quick functionality of desktop-based photo-management applications, such as Google's [[Picasa]] and [[F-Spot]]. Users can select and apply changes to multiple photos at a time, as an alternative to the standard Flickr interface for editing.
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