DNA4DNA: Preserving Culturally Significant Digital Data with Synthetic DNA

Abstract

The growing adoption of AI and data analytics in various sectors has resulted in digital preservation emerging as a cross-sectoral problem that affects everyone from data-driven enterprises to memory institutions alike. As all contemporary storage media suffer from fundamental density and durability limitations, researchers have started investigating new media that can offer high-density, long-term preservation of digital data. In the European Union-funded Future and Emerging Technologies project OligoArchive, we are exploring one such media, namely, synthetic Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA). In this paper, we provide an overview of the ongoing collaboration between project OligoArchive and the Danish National Archive in preserving culturally important digital data with synthetic DNA.

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Creators
Marinelli, Eugenio; Ghabach, Eddy; Bolbroe, Thomas; Sella, Omer; Heinis, Thomas; Appuswamy, Raja
Institutions
EURECOM; Rigsarkivet; Imperial College London
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Keywords
dna storage; long-term storage; preservation; siard-dk
Publication Type
paper
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CC BY 4.0 International
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