The 'Semantic Web' refers to a common framework which allows data to be shared and reused across boundaries digitally.
We are currently working towards Web 4.0 with developed features such as intelligent personal search and distributed search.
Examples of this photo sharing include sites such as Flickr which is a photo sharing community, where users can upload photographs and create photo albums to be shared across online communities. It has over 17 million monthly visitors, over 8 million monthly registered users and over 500 million photos.
Web 3.0 has allowed website like Flickr to organise the material into categories such as 'most viewed' and photos can be viewed in a slideshow format. Tagging and geotagging can be used to find specific photographs and reach a broad range of geographical destinations.
Penelope Umbriaco, photographic artist who collects images which have already been taken to 'reinterpret' their meaning. Seen in her 2006 piece 'Suns (from sunsets) where she used flickr to retrieve a large number of sunset images, which she found to be the most uploaded image.
This information is particularly useful and appropriate for me to understand as it focuses on the technological elements of photography and the involvement of the web. Networking and sharing over the internet. It highlights an advance in technology and how it is affecting our lives.
Considering that my photographic essay holds a theme around the involvement of technology in our lives it was really interesting to develop a deeper understanding of Web 3.0 and the concept of this semantic web which is constantly evolving. The statistics given showing how many people use sites such as Flickr is huge. Which really supports the message of the work I am trying to create, concerning our obsession with constantly sharing information with the world and consuming the information of others.
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