Humankind is known to be curious and inquisitive. Even if the code were lost, future individuals would be eager to find out what kind of message a printed paper offers. Paper as an analogue data store medium provides an interesting redundancy to deliver important information to future generations. The presentation deals with topics of age resistance of paper and inks as well as recommendations of how to empower printed or written paper to be a long-term data store.
Humankind is known to be curious and inquisitive. Even if the code were lost, future individuals would be eager to find out what kind of message a printed paper offers. Paper as an analogue data store medium provides an interesting redundancy to deliver important information to future generations. The presentation deals with topics of age resistance of paper and inks as well as recommendations of how to empower printed or written paper to be a long-term data store.
In the project Labest Papier – Langzeitbeständigkeit von Papier (Labest Paper – Long-term Durability of Paper), the suitability of paper to serve as a permanently undamaged information carrier for at least 500 years is to be assessed by the Department of Paper Manufacturing and Mechanical Process Engineering (PMV) for the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal (BASE).
In the project Labest Papier – Langzeitbeständigkeit von Papier (Labest Paper – Long-term...