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Kryolang Oslofjordfondet project Project duration: 2014-2017 Project budget: 1 mill. €

leader in producing climate-adapted, disease controlle- dand genuine planting material • NIBIO, Norwegian Institute of Bio Economy Research is owned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food as an administrative agency • Vestbø Bjørg Eriksrud, Norwegian cultivator of strawberries • Norner Research AS, Norwegian independent industrial polymer institute • Piql AS

Project Abstract The main goal in Kryolang is to secure access to healthy food and related data in the future. In this project we merge two technologies in a unique way. The cryopres- ervation of plant material is blended with the long term storage of information on a migration free preservation medium (Photosensitive film). We are actively working on ways to cryopreserve both plant material and the relevant data about the plant material (metadata) in the same infrastructure. Our plan for the future is to develop a collection of living plant material using cryopreservation technique. This means to store small shoot tips of plants in micro- tubes at -196 °C. This collection is supposed to contain all clean plant material of vegetatively propagated plant material in the world and therefore stand as an interna- tional data backup in case of crisis such as floods, earth quakes etc. Such catastrophes could cause a loss of plant material, even their distinction. The cryocollection will prevent such loss of such valuable plant material. The information and the relevant metadata for the plants will be written onto a secure, migration-free preservation medium (film). The film contains a hybrid and redundant solution with digital data and visual/hu- man readable information eg. color images. All informa- tion needed to access and understand the information sometime in the future is included on the medium it- self. The solution is fully integrated into IT systems, data are searchable (in real time) and accessible. No specific hardware or software is needed in the future to retrieve and access the data. This will be a parallel to what the Svalbard Seed Vault is for seed propagated plants, but for clonal varieties that cannot be propagated through seed, such as cultivars of potato, fruit, berries and flower crops. Project Partners • Grønn Næringskompetanse • Sagaplant, Norwegian national plant health center, a

ArchOptix (BIA 235412 - EUREKA) Norwegian Research Council and Eureka Project status Project duration: 2014-2017 Project budget: 2 mill. € Project Abstract Due to the large (and growing) market opportunity for long term preservation of digital data, the proposed and demonstrated technology from the Eurostars project "Archivator" (E!4863) shall be driven forward into a fu- ture roadmap. It targets for higher writing and reading speed, and increased data density on the preservation medium to cope with expected data growth scenarios. Higher writing and reading speed requires faster pro- cessing algorithms and electronics as well as a different approach of transporting the preservation medium fast- er and at the same time more precisely. Increased data density on the preservation medium can be achieved both with higher resolution as well as by multiple spec- trally separated data layers. Such multilayer preservation medium is developed in the Eurostars project "MiLoS" (E!7360). Higher resolution and multiple data layers need ultra-high performance multispectral optical systems both for the writing and the reading system. Project Partners • In-Vision, Austrian experts in Digital Imaging Optics • Norner Research, Norwegian independent industrial polymer institute • Chevin Technologies, British expert in design and con- sultancy services in FPGA and Embedded Systems for digital communications and data storage applications

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