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The Imperial War Museum's digitisation project underscores the need for reliable long-term data storage.

Summary

  1. Digitisation, vital for preserving 24,000 hours of film, video, and 11 million photographs.
  2. Focus on digitising materials before they degrade and are lost forever.
  3. HoloMem uses lasers to create multi-layered data holograms within a polymer.
  4. Microsoft's Project Silica stores data on glass panels using powerful lasers.
  5. Artificial Intelligence used in cataloguing.

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