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R&D Projects
- Overview
preservation solutions assessing the new medium as it
develops.
The objectives in the project has required collaboration
by a broad range of research institutes, material tech-
nology research companies, technology developers and
manufacturers. They have been supported by govern-
ment and commercial institutes and organisations that
are also backing this pan-European project.
Project partners
• Norner Research, Norwegian independent industrial
polymer institute
• Filmotec, German film manufacturer
• Harman Technologies, English film manufacture
• Photomec, English manufacturer of film
processing machines
• HostertPro, German manufacturer of film
processing machines
• National Archives of Sweden (NAS)
• BBK, German Federal Office of Civil Protection and
Disaster Assistance
• Piql AS
AStoR
(BIA 219744)
Norwegian Research council project
Project duration: 2012-2016
Project budget: 3 mill. €
Project abstract
The AStoR project has delivered a unique combination
of advanced materials and systems required to store
digital data for 500 years in an economic, safe and en-
vironmental friendly way, by use of expertise in mate-
rial technology and systems engineering. The amount
of digital data generated in the world is doubling every
second year and is expected to increase by a factor of
50 from 2011 to 2020. A significant amount of the data
needs secure long-term storage of 100 years or more.
AStoR will result in a fully integrated system, pulling a
number of other data storage technology projects to-
gether to provide one commercially viable solution (Piql
Preservation Services).
The main focus of AStoR is on the longevity properties
of the materials used and the physical devices (piqlBox
and secondary packaging) and an automated Storage
system (piqlVault) needed for the protection and han-
dling of data in a system designed to last 500 years or
more.
Project partners
• Norner Research AS, Norwegian independent
industrial polymer institute
• Plasto AS, Norwegian experts in the injection
molding of plastic
• Element Logic AS, Norwegian developers of an
automatic storage system
• Piql AS
The piqlBox moulding tool
Plasto - Åndalsnes, Norway