Piql Book of References

Hungarian National Library Case Study

The library now holds over 8 million volumes of data.

Hungary, like many nations, are working to ensure items of most cultural valuable are digitised. At pres ent, the main task of the Hungarian National Library is to provide two repositories of all publications and all kinds of prints produced in Hungary, including other materials (sound recordings, videos, electronic doc uments, etc.) and works published by Hungarian au thors in foreign languages and in Hungarian. Keeping this data alive can be a challenging process with most technologies only designed for short term storage. Technological obsolescence perhaps presents the greatest risk to data with a race against time to ensure data isn’t trapped on unreadable media or in unreadable formats. The Hungarian National Library were looking for a vi able solution for long-term digital preservation of its precious heritage. After considering other technologies, such as LTO tape, the client trusted Piql to digitally preserve digi tised manuscripts from the time of Matthias Corvinus, on our unique purpose-built technology, piqlFilm. Storing data with Piql achieves OAIS (ISO 14721) com pliance and is as easy to use as any other digital tech nology, but with a unique security, integrity and lon gevity. SOLUTION

These manuscripts will be safe for centuries in the fu ture, without the need for migration and with guaran teed future access. Piql is the only technology that can deliver sustainable storage, for any length of time, with no risk of data loss. The Hungarian National Library now displays Piql’s technology alongside the original manuscripts, allow ing visitors to learn about the importance of digital preservation.

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01-2019