Everyone can help to enrich the data of historic pictures on Ajapaik!

Ajapaik is crowdsourcing additional metadata about pictorial heritage. Ajapaik is mostly hosting old photos, but there are also paintings, graphic art and historic films on Ajapaik.
 
As an Ajapaik user you can:
  • geotag pictures in order to improve the location based search,
  • rephotograph historic pictures to create then-and-now picture pairs,
  • tag persons on the pictures, add pictures to albums, categorize and comment pictures,
  • transcribe handwritten messages on pictures or on the reverse sides of postcards,
  • add historical imagery to Ajapaik – either by searching and importing from public collections or uploading yourself.
 
Ajapaik is a non-profit venture of the Estonian Photographic Heritage Society (MTÜ Eesti Fotopärand) that was created during a Garage48 hackathon in February 2011. Over the years Ajapaik has received grant funding but there is no permanent funding therefore we are very grateful if you can donate to support us.
 
Ajapaik has 1248517 historic pictures, out of which 756259 pictures have been put on the map by 19281 users and 35591 rephotographs for 30897 pictures made by 751 users.
There are 1560188 faces detected on the pictures, a person has been identified in 112744 cases, age or gender is marked for 162295 faces.

Overview of your own contributions can be found on your user profile page.

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