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Hannover (pts031/12.03.2007/15:00) - The Archiving Community - a network of experts that includes manufacturers, academics, service providers and consultants in the field of long-term archiving - is showing for the first time, at CeBIT 2007 (Hall 1, Stand D 91), how colour documents or pictures can be digitised and microfilmed in a single-step process.
As a special live attraction the Archiving Community will demonstrate how the famous opus from Leonardo da Vinci, the "Madonna with the pink", is being scanned. Visitors of the booth can then watch the process of transferring the digital data on a special colour microfilm which is able to conserve and archive a realistic copy of the artwork for the next 500 years. Finally, the reproduction from the microfilm illustrates the nearly authentic imitation up to the surface structure of the picture painted with oil and tempera.
Leonardo's opus is the only one from the artist in Germany and can be seen in the famous "Alte Pinakothek" in Munich.
( http://www.pinakothek.de/alte-pinakothek/kalender/kalender_index.php?haupt=ausstellungen&inc=ausstellung&action=&which=2016 )
The offer to the manufacturer of the special scanners to grant permission for scanning the invaluable artwork was a truly exceptional offer.
Microfilm, in conjunction with the latest technology, is staging a comeback as a trailblazing digital data carrier for companies and organisations that have to store their documents and drawings in a legible form for over 20 years. These include industrial organisations, physicians' practices, hospitals, administrative management, aircraft manufacturers, financial service providers and companies in the construction industry.
This simplified procedure for secure yet simultaneously cost-effective long-term archiving is now possible thanks to the ArchiveLaser developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in cooperation with industrial partners. This provides organisations with a secure, cost-effective solution for archiving large volumes of digital data for up to 500 years.
The Archiving Community network is represented at CeBIT by the following companies: Autopan, CRUSE, Genus IT, Ilford, ImageWare, MicroArchive Systems and Wicks and Wilson.
The Archiving Community originated with the ARCHE project. This project focuses on the digitisation, plotting and re-digitisation of colour microfilms for long-term document archiving. The conversion of digital images to an analogue, cost-effective film medium, which has a serviceable life of several hundred years, is the solution to safeguard both the original paper document and its digital copy. New options have become available with colour microfilms that are stable over the long term and have a higher digital storage density.
The new ArchiveLaser makes it possible
The ArchiveLaser developed by the Fraunhofer Institute together with industrial partners, images digital documents in a quality previously unattained worldwide on colour microfilm. In close collaboration with the State Archive of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the University of Stuttgart, a workflow was also developed that optimally integrates the new imaging technology within the archiving process. Digitising documents to be archived and then filming them were previously two separate processes. The ARCHE workflow now combines the digitisation of the documents and the imaging to microfilm in one single step, utilising the advantages of digital and analogue technologies and reducing the costs of information provision and inventory preservation.
The reconversion of the plotted images to digital data takes place automatically with the assistance of an optical scanner.
The workflow
The ARCHE workflow enables users to archive their digital and digitised documents over the long term whilst at the same time being able to immediately use and process the electronic version of that data. The production chain begins with the scanner made by Cruse GmbH. At CeBIT, Cruse is presenting its patented "Synchronlicht System" (Synchronous Light System) from the Cruse CS-SL scanner group, which works with up to ten times less light than conventional scanners and can also reproduce large-format originals in a realistic format. ImageWare - a leading supplier worldwide of scanners that are gentle on original documents - is showing its Bookeye range of book scanners, which can process stapled documents, coloured maps and drawings in addition to historical archives. The digitised documents are imaged with the ArchiveLaser made by MicroArchive Systems onto the ILFOCHROME MICROGRAPHIC FILM colour microfilm produced by Ilford. Its diazo colours and polyester carriers are extremely durable - resulting in a Life Expectancy rating of over 500 years. The rolls of film (600 metres in length) can store approximately 13,000 individual images and are processed by Autopan using a processing machine designed especially for this purpose. The new film processor AP12-60 P-5 is equipped with a transport system in which rolls of colour microfilms move through the development process and drying contact with a tension-free drive system. High speed, production microfilm scanners from the world-renowned supplier Wicks and Wilson Limited subsequently digitise the microfilm to produce a high quality electronic working copy. As specialist designers and manufacturers of scanners for the digital conversion of rollfilm, microfiche and aperture cards, Wicks and Wilson offer a comprehensive range of scanners for all microfilm formats. In addition, Genus IT - with many years of expertise in long-term document archiving solutions and systems - is introducing itself as a solution integrator from the United Kingdom at the Archiving Community stand. Genus IT writes and installs Records Management Software solutions and supplies and supports a full range of document capture and writing devices.
Editorial contacts:
MicroArchive systems GmbH
David M. Weiss, Marketing Manager
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 17-19
60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Phone: +49 69 710 33 76 4
Fax: +49 69 710 33 76 5
david.weiss@microarchive.com
http://www.microarchive.com
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