Just woke up from a dream I had in which I was looking at a photograph. There was one of those codes in the photograph that allowed one to go online, and the page had information regarding the photographers light setting, lens, plus links to an archive of alternate images. This sort of information is already available in properties of different images.
It made me think: what if artists, craftspeople, discoverers of all types had an easy and efficient way to tag their work in such a way that others could quickly find their image (or I suppose textual article, diagrams, blueprints, etc.)
This would have an obvious benefit to the consumer-as-artist, because it would aid their self-guided journey of learning. For instance, if someone was interested in pinhole photography, or painting techniques similar to that of Monet's Haystacks. Local artists that taught classes might be picked up in such a search perhaps.
Someone working for an ad agency might also need something themed "haystacks" or that used pinhole photography.
Benefit to artist or craftsperson: by tagging so as to be included in this database would be opportunity to sell some work to a business who needed such an image or creation that they could make.
I think much of this database technology already exists: meta tags, image search.
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