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Drawing on Peircean semiotics, the camera provides an — a physical trace of light from the real world. But once digitized and uploaded, that image becomes a row in a database index. We track this shift: from the camera’s indexical certainty to the database’s logical index (e.g., B-tree on photo ID). The paper analyzes how EXIF metadata (timestamp, GPS, camera settings) becomes another set of indexed fields, enabling dynamic retrieval.

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