Piql Book of References

Book of references

Media and Entertainment

TELEVISION | FILM | RADIO | PRINT MEDIA (MAGAZINES NEWSPAPERS) | BROADCAST ARCHIVES

The variety of formats information can be stored in, often involving licenses, compression or very large file-sizes represents an interesting challenge for this industry. Piql offers an innovative solution that caters for all file formats, guaranteeing no data loss. From analogue formats to born digital content, we can help restore, organise and safeguard your audio visual assets to ensure access well into the future. MOTION PICTURES In the past, motion picture film masters were preserved through analogue B/W film with colour separation tech nology. This is an expensive and complicated process, that can result in quality loss. With this solution, audio must be stored separately, often on short term media solutions or tape. With Piql, the master file can be stored in original digital form, with no need for colour separation technology, en suring the quality of the film is unaffected.

piqlFilm also offers greater longevity than standard analogue or microfilms. Our AI assisted metadata extraction ensures that your information is enriched and searchable (not just to find the file, but to search through content within the file). AUDIO Maintaining audio quality is incredibly important for ar chiving and digital preservation. Migration of data from one medium to the next every few years can negatively impact on audio quality. Careful digital capture of analogue con tent is also crucial to preserve the authenticity and longev ity of analogue content. With Piql’s migration-free approach, audio is stored uncom pressed, and can be recalled in prime quality. Our approach is also compliant with International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and OAIS guidelines and standards.

WHAT TO HIGHLIGHT:

MOST VALUED BENEFITS:

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OAIS and IASA compliant

• Compatible with all file types incl. non-standard formats • No compression necessary • Ability to store masters, tracks and raw audio together. • Leading restoration and digitization available for multimedia items • Digital and visual archival available • Seamless integration with existing systems • Proven longevity • Guaranteed future accessibility and authenticity • HEVC compression supported

MIGRATION FREE

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FUTURE PROOF

Czech Radio - Český rozhlas Case Study

Preserving the “Golden treasure” of the Czech Radio history

Czech Radio decided to use Piql’s solution to secure their most valuable and irreplaceable recording moments of radio history for future generations.

Czech Radio (Český rozhlas) is the national public broadcaster in the Czech Republic and has been op erating since 1923. The radio is the 2nd oldest on the European continent and holds almost 100 years of his torical content and recordings, not only from Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also from other sources in Europe and the World. The radio archive currently keeps 220 000 hours of sound materials, millions of documents and pages of musical records such as notes and periodicals, con taining a very rich and adventurous National memory. Director of IT at Czech Radio, Ing Karel Zýka is rep sonsible for the massive archive, previously coming

from a position as Director of Czech Institute of Radio technology and has a long career within media and technology. The sound archive consists of the recordings of speech es, interviews, historical events, broadcasting archive and various sound and music

Ing. Karel Zyka Director of IT

artworks recordings. Part of it is still analog, these his torical recordings are being systematically digitalized since 2002, last year’s recordings are digitally borned.

Czech Radio - Český rozhlas Case Study

“ Piql Preservation Services represents an intriguing solution for secure data storage and long-term preservation and we find the solution very relevant to us Ing. Karel Zýka Director of IT Czech Radio

A sophisticated system on Oracle HSM base is being used for the data storage. The system makes three identical digital prints of each recording, one placed in a robotic sound library recorded on a cartridge tapes, and two copies are kept each on a different plocation because of the security reasons.

SOLUTION

Piql deploys an open-source, technology and vender independent solution which entitle the future access of the content. This was one of the main differentia tors when Czech Radio were looking for a preserva tion system to rely on for the future. After Czech Radio had defined the type of content they would like to preserve, it was evident that to be able to ensure the readability in the decades to come, there was a joint and thorough process between Piql and Czech Radio of improving and completing the metadata descriptions of the content. Further, it was advised that all sound recordings should be preserved in open source WAV format. This entitles Piql to write the format specifications in human readable text together with the content and metadata and thus makes it possible for future retrieval independent of technology development and obsolescence. Once the content is safely written to piqlFilm, the content never has to be migrated and can thus be kept in the Czech Radio archive for centuries without the need of future resources to keep it alive.

CHALLENGE

Keeping the information alive and accessible with tra ditional migration methods, the Czech Radio has been looking for a super-safe “disaster” preservation solu tion for digital sound recording without being able to find something that can secure their assets in a desired way. Despite the current sophisticated methods of stor ing this information, there is still some risk that the nation’s memory could get lost over time, due to bit rot failure during migration processes, software or hardware obsolescence or lack of money to success fully conduct the migration. Further, the challenge of ensuring the authenticity of the digital material has been of interest to the institution without any clear solution yet. Czech Radio found great interest in Piql’s approach to preservation and decided to engage in a groundbreak ing collaboration. When committing to the project of deploying true preservation method for their materi al, the Czech Radio decided to choose some of their most beloved and irreplaceable assets. The project was defined as the “Golden treasure” of the Czech Ra dio and included among others authentic recordings from Prague’s uprising in May 1945, recordings from the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, speech es from the presidents, Kings and prime ministers as well as documentation of political trials after WWII war crimes.

FUTURE

Seeing the results of the successful collaboration safe guarding their „Golden Treasures“, Czech Radio would like to continue protecting more of their valuable sound recordings by depositing their most irreplace able assets on an annual basis.

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Miracolo a Milano Case study

Piql preserves a Cannes classic

68 years after it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, Miracolo a Milano will once again grace the Cannes screens.

Miracolo a Milano Case study

will remain safe and accessible for centuries to come. Cineteca de Bologna chose Piql’s solution as it is purpose built for cinematic preservation. Having previously developed technology to solve cinematic digital distribution challenges with the rise of digital film (still widely used), Piql’s preservation solution was built to solve the challenges associated with keeping digital films alive. Able to preserve the artistic intent with rich metadata capture and built-in playback, Miracolo a Milano will be as clear to watch in 500 years as it is today. This is Cineteca de Bologna’s second collaboration with Piql, the first one, also in Cannes last year, saw the classic film Bicycle Thieves digitally preserved and stored in the Artic World Archive, alongside other cinematic treasures such as Mediterraneo, preserved by Infinity (Mediaset Group) and Variety Distribution (one of the oldest Italy movie distribution company).

Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) released in 1951, is a well-loved classic following an open hearted and unrelentingly energetic orphan as he struggles to make the best out of his life on the streets of Milan. A core piece of Italian film heritage, the film has received numerous awards and a very rare rating of 100% on rotten tomatoes. Chosen for in the 1951 Cannes film festival, a fewmonths after its release, the film is now being presented again at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival as a classic.

CHALLENGE

Experts at Cineteca de Bologna do not want this cinematic treasure lost or at risk in any way, so they have restored and digitised the movie in preparation for its digital preservation. By adhering to de current Italian MIBACT directives, they have preserved the restored movie on traditional analog film.

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In order to ensure maximum digital security, they decided to use the most resilient digital preservation medium available - piqlFilm - guaranteeing the film

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Mjøndalen IF Case Study

Mjøndalen sporting history

BACKGROUND

As a local athletes’ organisation with more than 110 years of local history and presence in the community, Mjøndalen IF (sports association) has been a major contributor to the every-day life of the people in the region of Mjøndalen. Throughout the 20th century the organisation has documented the every day life of a local community and has a rich history from a wide range of sports and activities, from a world record in ski jumping from 1915, to a leg endary tv show of the underdog and charismatic football team fighting in the Norwegian top division. Mjøndalen IF has always been a challenger and an organisation to push the boundaries.

Mjøndalen IF Case Study

Being proud of its history is for us a strength that gives us energy to continue the development of the club in step with the wishes and needs of society and the athletes. The story tells of “big dreams for a small vil lage” and 110 years of history how the club with small funds has managed to create sports history. “ Arild Iversen - Chairman of Mjøndalen IF,

CHALLENGE

teresting photo collection describing its 100+ year histo ry. Together with adjacent metadata the information was normalised to preservation file formats, before securely stored on the long-term storage medium, piqlFilm, pro viding the assurance of authentic data storage without the risk of data corruption or loss. The data was stored as digital time capsule and deposited to the Arctic World Archive by the current chairman of Mjøndalen IF, Arild Iversen, during a ceremony in Octo ber 2020. An important and proud moment as the first sporting association team to deposit their history into the vault. ‘It felt almost reverent that we, as the first sports associa tion in the world, had the opportunity to take care of our history in this way. In company with, among others, the National Museum, UNICEF and other national and inter national cultural institutions,’ he said. ‘Being proud of its history is for us a strength that gives us energy to continue the development of the club in step with the wishes and needs of society and the ath letes. The story tells of “big dreams for a small village” and 110 years of history how the club with small funds has managed to create sports history.’

To celebrate its 110th year anniversary, the organisation decided to secure its history in a digital form that could be preserved and accessed into the future. This history had been collected over decades to and published in three insightful books going through the lifetime of the organisation, as well as a wide range of images and video clips from numerous different sources. Having felt the risk of losing valuable content due to hard drive hiccups and lack of access to the original master files, the club quickly understood the potential risk of losing their data. The challenge was to effectively organ ise and catalogue the information, while finding a preser vation method that would ensure the information would remain safe and accessible for generations to come. With the support of Piql, Mjøndalen IF undertook a pro cess to structure its archival content, decide on an ap praisal process of the most valuable items and to under take a digitisation process for these objects in-house. The goal was to choose the most valuable history for preservation to ensure it would survive for at least anoth er 110 years (the current age of the organisation) in the Arctic World Archive. The process identified a key list of books, images and videos that document the story of Mjøndalen in both a historical and contemporary manner. The files included video clips from the television series “Alle gutta”, three volumes of an anniversary book collection as well as in SOLUTION

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CBF - Confederação Brasileira de Futebol Case Study

Preserving Brazilian football history As five-times World Champions, Brazil is respected worldwide as a leading football nation. Piql is proud to assist the Brazilian Football Confederation in preserving their impressive football history for coming generations of supporters.

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is known and respected in Brazil and worldwide for organizing and regulating all football related activities in Brazil, and for managing the National Football Team, proudly known as Seleção Brasileira de Futebol. In its daily activities, CBF produces large amounts of legal and procedural documentation stored on paper and as digital files, as well as vast amounts of media content of historical value. The institution also man ages a collection of information stored on microfiche. President of CBF, Mr. Marco Polo Del Nero, is respon sible for modernizing and implementing a complete digital workflow for all football related activities in

Brazil. With background as a Lawyer and Sports Manager, he considers that the digiti zation of Brazil’s football his tory is crucial but must com ply with legal regulations that protects the players’ rights. Mr. Marco Polo’s objective is to guarantee that files are protected and preserved for future generations.

Marco Polo Del Nero President of CBF

Football related documentation ranges from play er contracts to doping tests that are executed after

When access to a file is required, CBF IT department can provide access to digitally authenticated files. The digital workflow integrated with Piql enables the pro tection and preservation of all legal documents and historical media assets, and files may be retrieved by any authorized user of the CBF IT infrastructure. “Piql’s technology is like carving data in stone, piql Film is a robust and migration-free medium that protects our data from any form of cyberattack and at the same time guarantees future access. “ Fernando Fran ҫ a , Director of IT, CBF “ Piql has enabled CBF to preserve the memories of our world class Champions and protect the rights of all athletes and staff that form the football community in Brazil. Marco Polo Del Nero President of CBF CBF - Confederação Brasileira de Futebol Case Study

every game. The CBF workflow integrates all types of documents and allows access to state level entities as well as to individuals. PROBLEM Integrating CBF’s paper, microfiche and born-digital files into a transparent environment is a challenge. Some of the storage medium require digitization, and the metadata has varied over time and must be ad justed to modern-day requirements. As an example, when an athlete retires, the information generated during his career must be securely stored to ensure all rights are protected. As full retirement happens many years after players retire from the field, documents are usually stored in various formats that need to be digi tized and integrated with CBF’s IT infrastructure. CBF legacy files stored in analog form on microfiche require special attention as access is needed on a daily basis for former players and staff that are now reaching the age of retirement. The IT department is also undergoing major infrastructure changes to im plement paperless workflows for all football related activities in Brazil in compliance with ISO 14721 and regulations from National Legislation. SOLUTION CBF was interested in Piql’s technology because of its ability to preserve files for the long-term. The initial plan was to implement the technology for their his torical documents. However, after tests and technical and legal discussions, CBF’s IT department understood that Piql’s technology would also enable nationwide digitization of all football related workflows as well as legal compliance for information preservation. Piql was awarded a service and consulting contract to digitize analog documentation and to implement an OAIS-compliant digital workflow. Microfiche and paper documents are digitized, pro cessed for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and authenticated with digital signature. CBF’s cloud in frastructure is integrated with Piql, so files are easily transferred electronically for preservation and physi cal storage at the Arctic World Archive. Piql provides all services related to digitization and IT integration, including the installation of digitizing equipment within CBF headquarters in Rio de Janei ro and implementation of a workflow that enables access to the CBF Cloud integrated with Piql Arctic World Archive from any soccer stadium in Brazil.

Fernando Fran ҫ a , Director of IT, CBF

FUTURE CBF will have a digital workflow where all media assets related to Seleção Brasileira de Futebol and all football related activities in Brazil will be preserved for future generations on piqlFilm. As passionate football supporters, Piql Brasil expects that our biggest challenge will be to have sufficient storage space on our IT infrastructure and at Arctic World Archive for preserving assets from all future world titles that Brazil will conquer*.

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* Mr. Fernando França has informed Piql that over the next 1.000 years Seleção Brasileira de Futebol should participate in over 250 World Cups and win no less than 50 of them, just by maintaining their average.

Justice and Legal

PRIVATE LAW FIRMS | COURTS AND JUSTICE ORGANISATIONS PUBLIC PROSECUTORS | LEGAL ASSOSIATIONS | LEGAL AID ORGANISATIONS

The legal and justice sector holds large volumes of valu able information. Data and knowledge are considered a firm or court’s the most critical asset, with fast access to data vital for delivery of core services. With many archives relying on paper, the sheer volume of information presents significant management chal lenges, including searchability and recoverability. Digitisation can seem too expensive or difficult, with sub-par digitisation services delivering low resolution scans with unreadable content. Stains, old font styles or handwritten notes can result in content loss with basic optical character recognition unable to read it. Additionally, authenticity of information is crucial for le gal proceedings and the older the information, the harder it is to verify its legitimacy.

Having an effective digital archival solution in place will not only ensure efficient safe keeping of data and infor mation, it will also support productivity by increasing the findability and accessibility of information. Enabling the data to live on into the future is the most crucial element of this strategy, ensuring all information is accessible in the future. Piql can provide high quality digital transformation ser vices, with enhanced optical character recognition for handwritten notes and typewriter fonts. This provides greater searchability of content, data management, in creases the life time of information, and makes finding information simple and easy.

MOST VALUED BENEFITS:

WHAT TO HIGHLIGHT:

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Compliant with international regulations

• Compatible with all file types incl. non-standard formats • Digital transformation for all media types including paper and microfilm • Collation of legacy systems • Digital and visual archival available • Seamless integration with existing system • Proven longevity, guaranteed future accessibility and authenticity • Trademark evidence

MIGRATION FREE

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SEARCHABLE

SECURITY

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High Court of Madhya Pradesh - India Case Study

Piql transforming judiciary archives in India The High Court of Madhya Pradesh needed an innovative solution for long term storage of historical legal documents. Piql provides unmatchable service for the data storage requirements of the judiciary sector. No other solution can provide a solution that as affordable, appropriate or efficient in long-term digital storage.

CHALLENGE

High Courts in India collect large volumes of valuable data that must be stored for long-periods of time. Much of this data has been paper-based with many

High Court of Madhya Pradesh - India Case Study

“ Piql delivered a high-quality product to an unparalleled price. Both we and our client are very pleased with the result.

courts now looking to digitise their paper storage due to rising storage costs.

Our solution also provided much needed data securi ty and integrity. The resilience and longevity of piql Film was also of critical value to the High Court.

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh needed digitisa tion and preservation of more than 50 million A4 pag es of historical court cases. For historical legal data that needs long-term storage, migration-based technology not only isn’t suitable but presents long-term problems. Paper based storage solutions also become very expensive over the long term and the sheer volumes makes accessibility and searchability challenging. The High Court wanted to store the information in vi sual format on film, like it is done in the traditional mi crofilm market. Digital metadata and indexing features were also needed to enable fast search and retrieval. Piql was engaged via Tata Consultancy to provide this service. Piql’s offering was unique and the only solu tion that was migration-free, offline and suitable for long-term storage. No one in the traditional microfilm market can match the production speed and efficiency of Piql’s indus trial-grade system, or our affordability for long-term archival. Film is stored offline, limiting electricity consumption, and is space-efficient compared to paper. Further more, our solution enables fast search and retrieval of individual documents. We do this by automatically ex tracting metadata and indexing information from the files, in combination with manually entered metadata. SOLUTION

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1st Office of São Luis, Maranhão Case Study

Preserving authentic land registry records in Brazil

Notary offices deliver important services to provide accountability for certain legal and administration activities. The 1st Office of São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil provides notary services for real estate matters such as maintaining the land registry.

CHALLENGE Notary offices provide critical services to deter fraud. Authentic information and being able to ensure the integrity of historic information is core to delivering these services.

Paper based records decay over time, particularly with exposure to humidity and other atmospheric condi tions. Finding and accessing files can also be a slow and time-consuming process. As such, digitisation is a key priority for many nota ries and land registries around the world. Digitisation offers incredible benefits to notary archives such as easy access to information, metadata extraction and tagging and the opportunity to back up data for great er assurance.

To be able to provide these services effectively, acces sible and accurate information is critical.

The 1st office of São Luis maintained a large paper archive requiring a high degree of management and maintenance.

1st Office of São Luis, Maranhão Case Study

Piql gives us the best solution for moving from a paper-based workflow to a digital workflow. Piql brings together the best of both worlds; the long-term endurance of a solid and tangible preservation medium, photosensitive film, and the speed and ease-of use of the digital world. Our staff learned to use the Piql User Interface in one training session. The transition could not have been easier. “ Ricardo Gonçalves of the 1st Office of São Luis, Maranhão

However, only holding the records in an online en vironment can also expose them to risks such as file corruption, technological obsolescence and online threats.

The 1st office chose Piql to digitally transform their 2 million paper records, providing online accessibility with yearly production of piqlFilm, in two copies. This optimised workflow provided enhanced efficien cy, integration with management software and en hanced searchability and accessibility. This has resulted in document retrieval time reduced from 5 days to less than 30 minutes, estimated savings of 50 hours per employee, per month and freeing up over U$500,000 in real estate resources.

For the 1st office of São Luis, solving these challenges was of great priority.

SOLUTION The 1st office had a vast paper archive with more than 2 million documents in critical need of digitisation and digital transformation. Needing a safe and secure digital solution, it sought the only truly secure digital medium offering incred ible resilience, ensured authenticity and guaranteed data integrity. Piql’s purpose-built technology offers the benefits of both the unique qualities of traditional film and dig ital information. By storing digital information on re purposed photosensitive film, known as piqlFilm, we ensure that data remains authentic, accessible and secure. As an offline medium, it is not exposed to cyber threats or data manipulation and is completely immune to electromagnetic pulses (EMP), that would destroy other mediums like tape. The information is stored once, can be read many times, ensures data stays alive for over 500 years and is unchangeable, providing absolute authenticity for notaries.

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Culture and memory institutions

MUSEUMS | MEMORIALS | CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS | RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS | GALLERIES | LEGACY CENTRES | ART INSTITUTIONS

Culture and memory institutions carry an important re sponsibility to ensure history is never lost and content lives on into the distant future. Many physical and analogue collections are at risk with decay occurring of time, making digitisation a key priority for many institutions to carry their content into the future and guard against disaster or damage. Howev er, digitising alone does not guarantee future access, the content must also be preserved for the future. Digitally born collections are increasing and due to the rapid evolution of technology, are even more at risk than traditional collections. Technological obsolescence is a constant concern, with a race against time to ensure data isn’t trapped on un readable media, with most data carriers designed only for short term storage. Many digital preservation technolo

gies available are designed to keep the data alive through a data migration strategy or through active online man agement. These solutions can be expensive, risky and time consuming. Achieving compliance with international standards, such as OAIS, is also incredibly important but can present more challenges, especially for digitally born content in licenced formats. An effective digital preservation strategy must manage digitally born content, multiple file format types, digitisa tion needs and future archival planning while overcoming the problem of technology obsolescence. Our technology is designed meet these needs, effec tively and affordably. We also offer the exclusive oppor tunity of storage in the Arctic World Archive, a growing repository of global memory.

MOST VALUED BENEFITS:

WHAT TO HIGHLIGHT:

• OAIS compliant • Compatible with all file types incl. audio visual format • Digitisation, indexation and archival available • Seamless integration with existing systems • Proven longevity • Guaranteed future accessibility and authenticity

MIGRATION FREE

RESILIENT

INTEGRITY

SELF CONTAINED

FUTURE PROOF

AUTHENTIC

Hungarian National Library Case Study

Preservation of manuscripts for the Hungarian National Library The Hungarian National Library was founded in 1802 by the Hungarian Count Ferenc Széchényi. Szécheny. Its collections consist of more than 2 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, documents, and images. Serving as a storehouse of knowledge, National Széchényi Library is an institution storing and making publicly available traditional (paper-based) and mod ern (electronic) library documents of the Hungarian cultural heritage.

CHALLENGE

Libraries carry an important responsibility to ensure valuable information lives on for decades and even cen turies. This can be a difficult task with challenges such digital obsolescence, multiple file formats, content du plication, both analogue and born digital information and resource constraints.

Hungarian National Library Case Study

The library now holds over 8 million volumes of data.

Hungary, like many nations, are working to ensure items of most cultural valuable are digitised. At pres ent, the main task of the Hungarian National Library is to provide two repositories of all publications and all kinds of prints produced in Hungary, including other materials (sound recordings, videos, electronic doc uments, etc.) and works published by Hungarian au thors in foreign languages and in Hungarian. Keeping this data alive can be a challenging process with most technologies only designed for short term storage. Technological obsolescence perhaps presents the greatest risk to data with a race against time to ensure data isn’t trapped on unreadable media or in unreadable formats. The Hungarian National Library were looking for a vi able solution for long-term digital preservation of its precious heritage. After considering other technologies, such as LTO tape, the client trusted Piql to digitally preserve digi tised manuscripts from the time of Matthias Corvinus, on our unique purpose-built technology, piqlFilm. Storing data with Piql achieves OAIS (ISO 14721) com pliance and is as easy to use as any other digital tech nology, but with a unique security, integrity and lon gevity. SOLUTION

These manuscripts will be safe for centuries in the fu ture, without the need for migration and with guaran teed future access. Piql is the only technology that can deliver sustainable storage, for any length of time, with no risk of data loss. The Hungarian National Library now displays Piql’s technology alongside the original manuscripts, allow ing visitors to learn about the importance of digital preservation.

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Fratelli Alinari Case Study

Italian traditional clothing. Image from 1875. Fratelli Alinari ©

Italian ruins. Image from 1860. Fratelli Alinari ©

Capturing history forever with Alinari

Fratelli Alinari, founded in 1852 in Florence, Italy, is the oldest photographic archive in the world.

Holding more than five million photographs, it docu ments the history of Italy and the world capturing art, culture, industry, society and landscape. With over 200 years of irreplaceable images to pro tect, preservation for future generations is of para mount importance.

CHALLENGE

Some time ago, Alinari began a preservation project for its photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, albion prints, gelatin silver prints, and colloidal glass plate negatives, where digitization was the first step of the project.

Fratelli Alinari Case Study

“ So we decided today that Piql is the best solution available in the market to provide at an industrial level the most secure mechanism to preserve and store valuable media for the long-term.

Through this project, Alinari discovered its current preservation strategy was not optimal and, given cer tain conditions, the image stability could disappear in just a few years. Alinari needed a resilient, enduring medium to pre serve their images and began seeking a preservation solution offering ultimate protection and longevity. Piql’s storage solution has been tested and proven re silient to 500+ years and can ensure valuable assets and data are safely kept for future generations. Piql Film is considered an eternal data carrier, perfect for long-term preservation of history too valuable to lose. The eternal nature of film combined with guaranteed future accessibility made Piql an easy choice for Ali nari. Our secure and resilient solution gave Alinari the confidence that the images will live on long after we’re gone, without the need for migration as platforms evolve. For a pilot project, Alinari identified over 500 19th cen tury masterpieces, chosen for their cultural, historical, economic and educational value. The images were transferred onto piqlFilm both as high resolution digital files and visual prints, before the reel was securely stored in the Arctic World Ar chive, Svalbard Norway. The Artic World Archive is the perfect place to store world memory. It’s isolation, climate and status ensure data stored there will live on for generations to come. SOLUTION

Andrea de Polo, Fratelli Alinari

FUTURE

Having secured over 500 masterpieces in the Artic World Archive, Alinari believe in Piql’s technology and consider it the best and most secure solution for the long-term storage of valuable data.

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National Museum of Norway Case Study

Safeguarding art with the National Museum of Norway

The National Museum of Norway and Piql have joined forces to safe guard art for coming generations. Their most significant creations will be kept well protected in digital format at the Arctic World Archive.

The National Museum holds Norway’s most exten sive art collection, including national treasures such as “The Scream” by Edvard Munch. They also have an important role in preserving the collections to make them available for future generations.

served on a robust storage medium, with no risk of file corruption and preferably with a visual representation together with the data. Digital-born art is becoming increasingly important, also for the collections of the National Museum. As for physical objects of art, only the original version has an artistic and financial value. It is therefore critical to ensure data authenticity and integrity when pre serving digital art. As part of their long-term strategy of their digital workflow and protection of national digital assets, the management at the National Museum made a require-

THE CHALLENGE

The National Museum wants to engage the public and make art easily available online. To allow this, they are digitizing their physical objects with advanced tech nologies such as X-rays and 3D scanning. A long-term master copy of these files needs to be safely pre

National Museum of norway Case Study

Foto: Annar Bjørgli / Nasjonalmuseet

“The Scream” by Edvard Munch Foto: ©Nasjonalmuseet / Børre Høstland

“ We wrote a wish list for an ideal preservation solution. Piql met all requirements on the list. Jahn-Fredrik Sjøvik CIO, National Museum of Norway

ment specification for what they regard as an optimal long-term archival solution. They listed the following 10 characteristics:

• Migration-free • Self-contained

• Visual representation • Ensure confidentiality • Maintain data integrity • Available on demand at safe location of own choice • Proven technology • Safe for electromagnetic pulses • Low-tech • Physical robustness After a comprehensive assessment of opportunities in the market, the National Museum could not find any technology or service provider that could meet the list of requirements in the same way as Piql.

Furthermore, some of the National Museum’s most significant objects will be preserved on piqlFilm and stored safely on Norwegian ground in the Arctic World Archive on Svalbard.

FUTURE

THE SOLUTION

As part of a long-term collaboration, Piql and the Na tional Museum of Norway will work together to de velop preservation solutions for Norwegian museums.

Long-term preservation of data, on a medium that is migration-free, self-contained, secure and allows visu al representation together with the bits and bytes – the National Museum’s requirements were a perfect fit for Piql. We have entered into a long-term collabo rative partnership with the common goal of preserv ing art for the next generations.

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Vatican Library Case Study

La Divina Commedia - Vatican Library ©

Preserving history for the future with the Vatican Library

The Vatican Library is working with Piql to safely preserve and protect some of their most valuable historic manuscripts for future generations.

The Vatican Library is working with Piql to safely pre serve and protect some of their most valuable historic manuscripts for future generations. As one of the oldest and important libraries in the world, it contains one of the most significant collec tions of historical texts, including 75,000 codices and

1.1 million printed books. Formally established by Pope Nicholas V in 1475, the Library began a digitisation project in 2010 to preserve their collection of manu scripts for the future and make them available to the public online.

Vatican Library Case Study

“ Our dream is to convert our historic manuscripts to Piql, and thus be able to give this information to the next generations and to the future.

The Vatican Library invited Piql to demonstrate the technology through the delivery of a pilot project. The priceless and well-known Dante Alighieri’s “La Div ina Commedia” was chosen. Preserved on PiqlFilm, the manuscript is now stored safely in Piql’s Artic World Archive on Svalbard, Norway. Following the success of the pilot project, the Vati can Library have decided to digitize 500 irreplaceable documents of great historical value and ensure pres ervation and accessibility for coming generations for 500 years. Manuscripts were selected by the Vatican Library based on their historical and cultural value, and the risk the of deterioration and permanent loss. The proj ect includes the preservation of documents such as a text written by Luke the Evangelist and a hand-written version of the Coran. The project is kindly supported by SCG Chemicals, a leading petrochemical company in Asia and research partner of Piql.

Luciano Ammenti, Vatican Library

CHALLENGE

For 500 years, the Vatican Library has fulfilled its fun damental purpose of gathering, preserving and restor ing its patrimony of books and documents to make them available to all. It holds some of the oldest and most sacred texts including notes by artists and scien tists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as trea ties from all eras in history. This task of preservation and access has been de manding because the consultation of ancient books naturally causes wear, with the risk of deterioration in creasing over time. However, the Vatican is very clear that providing free access to its collections to scholars from around the world is a mandate it would never fail to deliver.

FUTURE

This project, 500 manuscripts for 500 years will no doubt be one of the most significant and important preservation projects of our time as we seek to pre serve humanity’s cultural heritage. The project is now seeking additional sponsors to fur ther facilitate the preservation of the chosen manu scripts.

A secure, long term solution was needed to ensure that this history is not lost for future generations.

In a world where everything happens so fast but doesn’t last for long, the Vatican Library needed a solution that would ensure timeless preservation. On line for accessibility but offline for absolute safety.

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SOLUTION

Piql shares the same vision as the Vatican Library re garding long-term digital preservation and guaranteed future access. Piql’s philosophy and ability to transfer information and culture to the future appealed to the Vatican Library, along with the reliability of the Piql system. The eternal nature of film, combined with its fu ture-proof accessibility made it the optimal choice over other storage mediums.

UNICEF Case study

UNICEF combines technologies to safeguard the Rights of the Child Established in 1946, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children around the world. UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

CHALLENGE

UNICEF wanted to protect the document they believe is one of the most important in the world and ensure it is never lost. Aware of the short lifespan of most digital stor-

UNICEF Case study

Most documents, photos, videos and other data are stored digitally, including the CRC. The problem with digital storage is that the technology quickly becomes outdated; floppy disks, CDs and even USB-sticks are examples of this. Today, we store most of our digital data in “the cloud”. Despite the name, this means that we rely on physical hard drives vulnerable to power outages, hacking, war and natural disasters. “

age media they wanted something durable and long lasting, that would protect the document and ensure its survival for future generations. As part of the 30-year anniversary of the signing of the convention, and for World Children’s Day, UNICEF began a campaign centred on how the rights of children are in our DNA as people. The idea to store the document digitally in DNA was an exciting way to complement the campaign, celebrating the anniversary and promoting the im portance of children’s rights. DNA is an emerging technology that is still in de velopment. It offers great benefits in terms of durability and capacity, however as a developing technology, reading back the information can be complicated and require significant computer pro cessing power. In addition to the technology capable of eternal storage, UNICEF wanted to a safe place where the document would be cared for. UNICEF chose to store the document in the Arc tic World Archive (AWA) as a contribution to the growing collection of world memory. In addition to storing the data on DNA, UNICEF also chose to store the information on piqlFilm, offering guaranteed readback, irrespective of how long the data is stored for. piqlFilm provides all rel evant file format specifications and decoding soft ware in human readable format to enable manual data recovery. THE SOLUTION

The combination of these two storage mediums provides great assurance that the file will survive and be accessible well into the future. The Rights of the Child, will rest alongside consti tutional documents from a range of nations, cul tural heritage treasures and contemporary mem ories.

THE FUTURE

UNICEF have invited the public to sign a petition of support for the Rights of the child, which will also be stored on piqlFilm alongside the docu ment.

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The Arctic World Archive is not only secure, but also holding a collection of highly important information and cultural heritage. What better place to store what we view as the world’s most important document than here?’ “ - UNICEF Norway’s Executive director, Camilla Viken

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Fundación Felipe González Case study

Felipe González swears as president in 1982. Photo: Unknown author / Felipe González Foundation

Fundación Felipe González The Fundación Felipe González aims to be a think tank for global progress, democracy and equality while also providing public access to “civic memory,” such as the former president’s documents.

CHALLENGE

Preserving memory for the benefit of future generations is a core value and aim for the Fundación.

Digitisation is the start of this process and how the documents are treated and catalogued is a key consider ation as it directly impacts on accessibility and preservation. The challenge of current media obsolescence is also a concern for the Fundación and for archivists around the world. To solve this problem, many organisations build their

Fundación Felipe González Case study

archive around data migration strategies, where data is moved every few years to new media or software formats.

and 1979 respectively. The XXVII was the first celebrated in Spain after the Civil War, in which Felipe González is ratified as Secretary General and Ramón Rubial becomes President of the Party. In the XXVIII, the proposal to abandon Marxism is rejected and, as a result, Felipe González resigns as Secretary General. Life in Moncloa: the Government The offices and the hearings: the task of Government. The notebooks of the President are testimony of the task of Government and the development of daily life in the Moncloa Palace. In this sample we find handwritten annotations on the negoti ation for the signing of the Treaty of Accession to the EEC, preparatory notes for the Councils of Ministers and parliamentary debates; meet ings with the Ministers of Economy, Defense or Foreign Affairs; notes of the European Council; drafts of letters to international political leaders or reflections on current political events. The photographs taken by Miguel Povedano, official photographer of Moncloa, are in the same way, testimony of the audiences and meetings between the President and the different national and international social and political actors, as well as the various conferences and summits that he attends during the years of government, including the signing ceremony for the accession to the European Economic Community in 1985, the Peace Conference for the Middle East held in 1991, and the various Ibero-American Summits that took place from that same year. Memories with Norway and Spain In addition, the Fundación wanted to dive into its archive about Norway and, as a result of this search found some photographs of Gro Harlem, Kåre Willoch and Harald V.

This can be a risky and expensive process.

The Fundación was intrigued by Piql’s unique technology, solving the problem of technologi cal obsolescence, with guaranteed future acces sibility. With leading digitisation services offering optical character recognition and enriched meta data extraction, along with expert support in archival management, the Fundación recognised Piql could offer a viable future focussed solution. The Fundación also found mission of the Arctic World Archive very interesting, as a repository of world memory, holding critically important treasures from well-known organisations. To explore Piql’s technology further, the Fundación has undertaken a symbolic project with Piql to store important Spanish history to the Arctic World Archive. This project not only safely preserves Spanish history, but it also allows the Fundación to understand the potential benefits Piql technology can offer its broader collection. The items digitally preserved and stored away for the future from Fundación are from three collec tions: SOLUTION These typed documents include the transcript of the talks held in October 1976 and in March 1977 between a secret services command (Cen tral Documentation Service) and Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra, young leaders of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party still illegal. Socialism: the Congresses These photographs taken by Pablo Juliá portray the XXVII and XXVIII Congress of the Span ish Socialist Workers Party, celebrated in 1976 The steps to democracy Pre-constitutional secret meetings.

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The Museu Del Castell de Peralada Case study

Museu Del Castell de Peralada preserves Spanish heritage with Piql

The Museu Del Castell de Peralada, located in a 14th century Carmelite convent, is an important cultural repository of rich Spanish history.

THE CHALLENGE

The Museum holds nearly 100,000 books, 800 Patents of Nobility, 140 manuscripts, 200 incunabula, 40 Letter Books from Damiá Mateu and 5000 pieces of the Cervantes Collections. Like many historical institutions, parts of the collection are beginning to deteriorate and were at risk of being lost forever.