If the contemporary task of the photography curator has been to rescue the photographic image from photographic reproduction, then the task of the computer scientist has been to rescue the photograph from semantic oblivion. Or, as the scholar David Weinberger observes: “When you have ten, twenty, or thirty thousand photos on your computer, storing a photo of Aunt Sally labelled ‘DSC00165.jpg’ is functionally the same as throwing it out, because you’ll never find it again.” more