EUREKA
Friday, 05 June 2009 01:00
EUREKA
TEDIAL participates at EUREKA Eurostars Archivator project.
Long-term archiving today is a "never ending story" of migration to new hardware and software platforms and re-recording of the same data. The ARCHIVATOR (Store and retrieve digital data using 35 mm film) project aims to change the way the world will do longterm archiving of digital content. New technologies, new products, new processes and workflows will be established as a part of this project. The aim is further to set up a new and innovative business model that facilitates a quick market introduction and adaptation of the ARCHIVATOR process as the preferred option for long-term archiving of digital data.
A fantastic project consortium has been put together to accomplish this task: The best optical system designers in Europe, IN-VISION Digital Imaging GmbH, to provide imaging optics to very sophisticated Data Recording and Data Scanning systems, provided by two industry leading companies, CINEVATION AS and P+S Technik GmbH (PSTF), in this field. Further an innovative and leading company in the field of digital archiving, TEDIAL is the partner for encoding and packaging of data for recording as well as de-coding and unpackaging of data after scanning. Finally, two leading users and providers of archiving services, Nordisk Film Post Productions AS (NFPP) and Centro de Produccion Audiovisual Autor, S.R.L. (CPAA), have been selected to provide inputs and requirements from the market side.
The target for the ARCHIVATOR is to create an open standard for long term archiving for the future! Massive amounts of digital data require long-term archiving (>> 50 years). Exponentially growing amounts of data demand for logistically effective and cost efficient processes. Digital storage media (DVD, hard disks, magnetic tapes) exhibit limited lifetime. Repetitive data migration to overcome the rapid obsolescence of hardware and software (application SW and operating systems) bears accelerated risk of data loss, data corruption or even manipulation and adds significant repetitive costs for hardware and software investments.
The project consortium strongly beliefs that long-term archiving of digital data on specialized non-fading polyester-based micrographic film is a true alternative, while such material shows a proven long-term stability of more than 500 years under regular storage conditions. This innovative archiving concept can be applied to many fields such as governmental institutions, conservatories, libraries, registers, insurance companies and banks, media industry or medical technology. It envisions huge market potentials both for equipment and services.
The ARCHIVATOR project comprises:
- DATA BOXING to convert digital and digitized film and media data (or any other data format) including; ingestion, formatting, encoding, and encryption of object data and combination with meta data;
- DATA RECORDING to expose digital and digitized data to high resolution micrographic film material with a high-speed process, optimizing data density and bit depth on film and its reproducibility;
- DATA SCANNING at high resolution to re-generate exposed data from film and prove consolidation of the process chain;
- DATA UN-BOXING to reliably restore scanned data, decode and re-format data and make them readable;
- STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, i.e. definition of archival procedures of storing film in save archives and definition of workflows to integrate the film-based long-term archiving process into short and medium-term digital storage processes.
One again, this research project shows the clear determination of TEDIAL to play an active part in the high level multimedia market.
About TEDIAL:
Tedial (TecnologĂas Digitales Audiovisuales) is an European high technology company, based in Málaga, Spain, that specialises in asset management and process control in systems which include audiovisual content, including broadcast, institutional, healthcare and industry. It is a market leader in Spain and Latin America, and is active globally delivering innovative, complete and highly functional media and process management systems.