Flickr is huge; it contains billions of images. It's a unique visual history collection, and the Flickr Foundation believes it is time to figure out how to preserve it for future viewers to enjoy. But, it is simply too big for any contemporary archive to take on, so the Foundation developed Data Lifeboat, a simple packaging service to bundle up slivers of Flickr for preservation elsewhere. A Data Lifeboat is designed to contain images and metadata and to jettison the more standard web archive for a format that is content- and context-focussed.
https://www.flickr.org/programs/content-mobility/data-lifeboat/
