The Flickr frequency norms are a set of measures derived from the Flickr photo-sharing platform (www.flickr.com), focusing on the frequency of words used as tags for images. These norms were generated from a dataset of 81,834 words, including words from the English Lexicon Project, the British Lexicon Project, and the English Crowdsourcing Project. The data was collected using a Python-based tool through the Flickr API, specifically the flickr.photos.search method, which retrieves public photos tagged with specific labels within defined time intervals and geographical areas. In this case, the data was extracted for images uploaded in the US and the UK from January 1, 2005, to January 1, 2022.
In the context of this project, we also developed FilckrPhotosExplorer, easy-to-use standalone software to explore and download tagged photos from Flickr via the Flickr API method flickr.photos.search.
