ArchOptix

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 future 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 processing algorithms and electronics as well as a different approach of transporting the preservation medium faster 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 spectrally separated data layers. Such preservation medium was developed development in the Eurostars project "MiLoS" (E!7360) and further in the PreservIA project. Higher resolution and multiple data layers need ultra-high performance multispectral optical systems both for the writing and the reading system. The ArchOptix project has elevated the piqlWriter (process for writing data) and the piqlReader (process for reading data) and its optical components to the next level. In the project period several different methods for reading and writing data has been designed and evaluated, and by the project end final spesifications for next generation reader and writer is defined.

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 future 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 processing algorithms and electronics as well as a different approach of transporting the preservation medium faster 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 spectrally separated data layers or multidimensional use of single data layer. Higher resolution and multi-layer/dimensional storage medium requires ultra-high performance multispectral optical systems both for the writing and the reading system. THE ARCHOPTIX PROJECT - BREAKING ESTABLISHED BARRIERS OF TECHNOLOGY The ArchOptix project will take the data writer (i.e. the process of writing data onto the preservation medium) and data reader (i.e. the process of reading data off the medium) systems and optics to the next level: A multi-layer/dimensional storage and preservation medium demands for writing and reading devices that can cope with the high resolution and dynamics of the medium and its specific characteristics to reproduce digital content. No such devices are available today and the ArchOptix project intends to fill this gap by demonstrating high-speed continuous multispectral systems and optics (illumination and imaging lens) for both writing and reading, including most powerful control and data processing software to accelerate and optimize data reconstruction speed