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Securing future access to audio-visual contents
- A European consortium’s response to preservation challenges

Title (author1): 
Mr
First names (author1): 
Bjørn
Surname (author 1): 
Brudeli
Institution: 
piql AS
Country: 
NORWAY
Presentation type: 
spoken paper
Date: 
30 Sept Wednesday
Start time: 
1 630
Venue: 
Grand Auditorium
Abstract: 

The Piql Preservation System addresses the challenges related to long-term preservation of our digital and audiovisual heritage.
Realizing that migration-based preservation strategies do not solve the underlying need for securing the integrity and future access to valuable data, the EU and the Norwegian Research Council funded three pan-European industrial consortiums with investments of €25 million. The result is an open-source turnkey solution with all components needed for writing, storing and retrieving any kind of digital data, including sound and audiovisual contents.
High-resolution photosensitive film is converted into a digital storage medium, similar to what happened to magnetic tape years ago. Binary codes are written on a medium with well-documented long-term qualities. The combination of digital and analogue technologies give advantages such as the possibility of writing readable instructions on how to retrieve the data in the future. The data files are stored offline but related metadata is searchable online. The technology allows sound and image files to be preserved together with related metadata, on a secure medium with truly proven preservation qualities.
The solution materialises the combined expertise of leading European technology companies and research institutions, and has been developed with guidance from the National Archives of Sweden and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance of Germany.