Documentation Project: summary in my own words: I want to put several of my photos--ones of historical or important genealogical value--into the public domain. However, I want people to be able to see the history and documentation behind the photos: (authenticity and age of the physical object that is the picture, names of the people, how I know that, where I got the actual old picture (not a copy of it). I want people to have the tools to identify the picture, or at least decide if I identified it properly. I want the people to have access to a high-resolution digital scan of the photo. I want to let people use the image freely in unrestricted (or restricted by minimal attribution) commercial or non-commercial ways of their desire.
Steps
*Put a historical picture (e.g., Jethro and Happy) in Flickr. If possible, include documentary statements. Get Wayback to crawl it.
*Create page on your main site (SM). Name it "Documentation." Follow up with Statement of Purpose. Write a full explanation of who it is and how you got the picture. Include genealogical and biographical info. You might even include section about Granny, as relates to the photo. Add a link to the Flicker page and add a text version if the Flicker URL on your SM documentation page. Also add a link and long URL to the archived Flickr page.
*Now archive the SM page and copy the URL. That is the URL you will use for the Creative Commons contact ref. for the related media.
*Don't use short URLs. Apparently some sites can block them even if they have been archived.
Alternatively, study Wikimedia and Wikiversity and see if anything can go there. Probably not, unless it be the picture an connection of the picture to the topic. Because.... anybody anytime could edit it into a completely different, unrelated, unsourced mess.
