Notices by joshuatj (joshuatj@digipres.club)

Final #JTS2026 session - Lessons learnt, future speculations and breakthroughs.

Dr Victor Kabata, Sorbonne University, on preserving audiovisual archives using Piql at UAE National Library and Archives.

NLA has a highly secured facility for Piql reels in Abu Dhabi. Government agencies and private organisations can deposit their Piql reels in NLA facility. Can opt for 2nd copy in Arctic World Archive, Norway.

#JTS2026

Proven that synchrotron x-ray can be used to touchlessly read magnetic media. Now experimenting with reading degraded motion picture film without even need to unroll the film. It's even sitting in the can. [jaw dropping] 🤯🤯🤯

#JTS2026 #WorthTheTicket

NOW: Dr Sebastian Gliga, Paul Sherrer Institute on Play It Again - Recovering audiovisual content from degraded tapes and films with synchroton X-rays. Also motion pictures from degraded films (!!)

"Big machines looking at small things"

Swiss light source synchrotron. High powered, focused X-rays. Beam lines.

#JTS2026

@notclacke for touchlessly reading magnetic media, there should be quite a few articles out there since this was first done in 2024. For the motion picture part, that's new. There were audible gasp in the theatre at #JTS2026. I am looking forward to see further development on this.

"This is [how I see] the future." - Dr Sydney Shep showing a brief clip of Refik Anadol's Unsupervised https://refikanadol.com/works/unsupervised/

(Met Refik at a time-based media preservation meeting, discussed ways to preserve this complex artwork.)

#FF2024 #AI4LAM