{"id":221,"date":"2016-04-28T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/28\/the-future-of-film-preservation-is-dna\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:12:00","slug":"the-future-of-film-preservation-is-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/28\/the-future-of-film-preservation-is-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of film preservation is&#8230; DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-04-technicolor-hollywood-history-bottle.html\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-oHk7AO0J5FU\/VyI07dU93aI\/AAAAAAAACSo\/HubeqFRWdj0ZjSMXSp_82W5a46d1l9fFACLcB\/s400\/technicolorvial.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not that you need any kind of mental stress during finals, but our media librarian passed along this mind-blowing update from the world of film preservation. The best-preserved filmstrips and digital backups will still deteriorate overtime, but the folks at Technicolor (yes, the <i>Wizard of Oz<\/i> Technicolor) think they&#8217;ve developed a foolproof technique for keeping films stable and format-neutral for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Technicolor converts a film into code, then \u2013 with science indistinguishable from magic \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-04-technicolor-hollywood-history-bottle.html\">encodes that into DNA<\/a>. DNA is absurdly dense storage: your phone might hold 32 gigs, but DNA can store about <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2016\/04\/microsoft-experiments-with-dna-storage-1000000000-tb-in-a-gram\/\">tens of billions times more data<\/a> in a single gram. Technicolor can bottle millions of copies of this DNA in a small water vial, where it will remain safe probably through the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>We have to be a little skeptical just because this is the bleeding edge of film preservation technology, but Technicolor says they&#8217;ll have it down-pat in a year. Imagine being able to store the entire history of film in a rain barrel. It&#8217;ll be pricey, but we&#8217;re astounded.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that you need any kind of mental stress during finals, but our media librarian passed along this mind-blowing update from the world of film preservation. The best-preserved filmstrips and digital backups will still deteriorate overtime, but the folks at Technicolor (yes, the Wizard of Oz Technicolor) think they&#8217;ve developed a foolproof technique for keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,276],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}