Permanent Digital Data Storage: A Materials Approach Barry M Lunt Robert Davis Douglas Hansen Brigham Young University Brigham Young University Millenniata, Inc. 265 Crabtree Building, BYU N-215 ESC, BYU 915 S. 500 E. Suite 112 Provo, UT 84602 Provo, UT 84602 American Fork, UT 84003 +1 (801) 422-2264 +1 801-422-3238 +1 801-358-0935
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[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Some of these have survived primarily due to the optimal ABSTRACT storage conditions in which they were left; a classic example of Permanent marks, interpreted as bits, are the sine qua non of this would be the Dead Sea Scrolls, found between 1946 and deep archival storage. Until about 2006, this area of research 1956 in caves near the Dead Sea. Lying in the dry climate, with apparently did not exist, but advances in the past several years at low humidity and little light, and remaining undisturbed for Brigham Young University and at Millenniata, Inc., have centuries, these documents were remarkably well preserved, produced one product (the M-Disc - a permanent recordable especially considering that most of them were made from optical disc of DVD capacity), a follow-on recordable optical parchment and papyrus.