Flickr Referencing Advice

Picture was taken from Flickr - PAR-TIC-I-PA-TION, or 37 pieces of library flair (also a 365days shot), cindiann

So if you are like me and use Flickr a lot, then how do you keep track on the images, artists and URL's...and why should you even do this. When you are developing resources as an educational professional the things you create may actually be owned by the organisation you work for. So if you are developing resources for the organisation they will want the resource to be used by a variety of staff members, probably for well after you have left for a better job in North QLD. So how can a new staff member pick up the resource you created a few years ago edit it? Where will she find those pictures? The answer is simple - documentation and referencing. My organisation advises that people working on resources that will use Flickr images should document the thumbnail picture with date it was retrieved, name of the image, URL address and person whom posted it. That way the images can be looked up very easily by someone else at a later date. The trouble is where do you keep these reference documents. Again the answer in simple - In a place that gets backed up regularly. I tend to store this type of info in a Flickr folder on a drive assigned to me by my organisation. This drive gets backed up regularly and it sits on a network.