Could be technique for robust long-term data archival (data > video > celluloid rolls > video > data)

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Could be technique for robust long-term data archival (data > video > celluloid rolls > video > data) #25

Closed twardoch closed 1 year ago

twardoch commented 1 year ago

If this technique is robust, this could be proposed as a method for long-term data archiving. This method could theoretically allow:

To convert an arbitrary data file into a "video"
Optically print that video into celluloid rolls
Once the rolls are scanned back in, the method could be used to decode that back into the original data

So, this may have utility beyond the "YouTube glitch".

danya02 commented 1 year ago

This is already done: the GitHub Arctic Code Vault program made a backup of all the public repos and put them on tape using QR-code looking patterns, along with the human-readable instructions for how to use it.

It's probably not a good idea to use this in its current state for this though, with the lack of error-correction, versioning or most of any form of metadata.