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understand how to use future “off-the-shelf” technology to read back the data. On con- ventional storage technology (e.g. hard disk, CD or magnetic tape), there is no such clear text information available, and you would need specific technology to read the data back. Reading back data from Piql’s technology in the future can be done independently of specific vendors. One would only need a light source, a digital camera and a com- puter of some sort. If these three things ex- ist in the future, the data will always be retrievable. Piql’s storage technology is by far the most sustainable storage technology on the mar- ket. It requires minimal or zero energy (when e.g. data is stored at Svalbard) to keep the data alive for future generations.

Cryobox We have, with support from Oslofjord Regional Research Fund, the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway in cooperation with Sagaplant, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norner and EGGS Design developed the Cryobox. The Cryobox is designed in a way which allows the biological material and the related information to be cryo preserved together. This way, one does not need to keep a separate archive to be able to access the information in the future. Apart fromSagaplant inNorway, theCryobox has been tested by Luke Natural Resources Institute in Finland and theCatholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Cryobox makes it possible to co-store seeds, cryo preserved biological material, and information stored on piqlFilm, all together in the same box.