Here is a close up from the same piece:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/901666/Thanks for the link to FotoNotes specification Michael.
Like your SUNY folk I got excited about this too (although when I imagine it implemented in an my installs of .LRN/OpenACS I see wonderfully annotated medical images of bumps, rashes, crusts, scales, and warts). 😊
It is nice to know that there is a searchable/semantic web friendly way to do this. Something worth exploring.
It looks like this is something that could be provided as part of a RSS feed as well. Here is an example:
http://fotonotes.net/spec/index.php/Current_FNAtom_Schema
Although, I do find the idea of adding regional annotations to the metadata fields in the images themselves more appealing.
Carl