Start 2004-10-01
End 2007-10-01
Aim and profile of the project
The goal of this work is to develop and establish an archival system for digital data with focus on long-term archival as required by archives and museums which preserve the audiovisual heritage of our time. The fundamental idea is that institutions with long-term archival needs of digital data collaborate in order to build a geographically distributed, Internet based archival system. It has been of primary concern in designing this system to minimizing the risk of data loss due to a catastrophic event (on a local or even regional scale such as a devastating earthquake) or false manipulation. In addition the archival network has to cope with the rapidly changing standards of information technology and preserve readability of the data beyond changes of software and hardware technology.The archival network will be implemented as a distributed, self-organizing and optimized peer-to-peer (P2P) network with a high redundancy. The data to be archived will be distributed in redundant copies among all participants’ parties. It will be assumed that the data will be transported over untrusted channels and stored on untrusted nodes. Therefore, strong cryptography will be used to guarantee the integrity and privacy of the archived digital assets.
Project partners
Dr. Lukas Rosenthaler
Abteilung für Bild- und Medientechnologien der Universität Basel
E-Mail: lukas.rosenthaler@unibas.ch
Tel: +41-61-267 0490
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gschwind
Achatz von Müller
Historischen Seminar der Universität Basel
Tel: +49-61-295 96 54
E-Mail: A.Vonmueller@unibas.ch
Grant
DISTARNET is granted by the Schweizerischen Nationalfonds.
CH-Nationalfonds: Projektnr. 100012-105714. http://www.snf.ch/prodb/webforms/ProjectDetail.aspx?ID=0c11948c-59b5-441f-9972-0afae8fa27b9