4683 The ARCHIVATOR project aims to build an infrastructure for archiving of digital data on photosensitive material

The ARCHIVATOR project comprises: - DATA BOXING to convert digital and digitized film and media data (or any other data format) including ingestion, formatting, encoding, and encryption of object data and combination with meta data; - DATA RECORDING to expose digital and digitized data to high resolution micrographic film material with a high-speed process, optimizing data density and bit depth on film and its reproducibility; - DATA SCANNING at high resolution to re-generate exposed data from film and prove consolidation of the process chain; - DATA UN-BOXING to reliably restore scanned data, decode and re-format data and make them readable. - STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, i.e. definition of archival procedures of storing film in save archives and defi nition of workflows to integrate the film-based long-term archiving process into short and medium-term digital storage processes.