Preventing digital “memory loss”
With an event titled “Digital storage – film-based archiving?”, the science and technology section of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) is cooperating with photokina’s organizers to stage a presentation forum during the fair (on September 25 and 26) that will showcase the opportunities and limitations of film-based and digital archiving.
And this is a key topic, because the important problem of long-term digital picture storage remains for the most part unresolved: Anyone who fails to regularly save the data of important digital images to solutions at the next technological level – referred to as “data migration” – runs the risk of losing important images. Film, on the other hand can be preserved for long periods of time – provided it is properly processed and stored.
Today, it is perfectly possible to combine the advantages of the worlds of analogue and digital imaging. This involves making film exposures of the digital image data, which can later be redigitized if desired – a solution already being successfully used by museums, archives and professional photographers. At the presentation forum, the available storage solutions will be shown and the advantages and disadvantages of each solution will be discussed. The event will conclude with a panel discussion whose participants will explain which problems can be solved by using film-based archiving. The event venue is the Kristallsaal in the Congress Center East at the Cologne exhibition center.
There will be no fee charged for taking part in the presentation forum “Digital storage – film-based archiving?”, to ensure that everyone interested in this topic will have a chance to visit individual presentations.
On the following pages you will find an overview of the planned program.
Those who plan to take part are asked to register informally at:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, Geschäftsstelle, Rheingasse 8-12, 50676 Köln, Germany; tel. +49 (0)221 9232069, fax: +49 (0)221 9232070, e-mail: dgph@dgph.de, Internet: www.dgph.de.
Preliminary program
Presentation forum “Digital storage – film-based archiving?”
Thursday, September 25, 2008
2:00 p.m.: Prof. Ulrich Nickel, Chairman of the DGPh:
Welcoming remarks
Prof. Hans Brümmer, Chairman of the science and technology division of the DGPh
Digital storage – film-based archiving?
2:30 p.m.: Jürgen Prasse, Mops Computer GmbH, Münster:
Film exposure with film recorders (CRT and LCD)
3:00 p.m.: Rainer Tewes (DGPh), Fotolabor “M” GmbH, Stuttgart:
The savedpictures system / long term archiving on color microfilm for art photography and documentation
3:30 p.m.: Break
4:00 p.m. Andreas Hofmann, Fraunhofer Institute Freiburg:
The color microfilm laser recorder of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques
4:30 p.m.: Dr. Daniel Fluck, ProArchive AG, Uitikon, Switzerland:
The Eternity 105 laser recorder
Friday, September 26, 2008
10:30 a.m.: Dr. Rita Hofmann (DGPh), Dr. Jean-Noël Gex, Ilford
Imaging Switzerland GmbH:
Ilford micrographic film.
11:00 a.m.: Klaus Pollmeier (DGPh), Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design:
The declaration of “digital bankruptcy”? Image archiving – where tradition and progress collide
11:30 a.m.: Dietmar Wueller (DGPh), Image Engineering, Frechen:
What types of data are suitable for digital archiving?
A brief analysis of suitability for digital archiving and the optimal archiving strategy
12:00 noon: Dr. Peter Fornaro, Imaging and Media Lab of the University of Basel:
PEVIAR: A system for digital archiving without migration
12:30 p.m.: Lunch break
2:00 p.m.: Panel discussion:
Which problems can be solved with film-based archiving?
3:00 p.m.: Conclusion of the event
