Newly Acquired Newspapers - Iraq

I recently found some unusual newspapers online and I'm in the process of adding them to the archive. The one I just finished today downloading is called Têgeyştinî Rastî (Understanding the truth). It's an Iraqi semi-weekly newspaper that was issued by the British Army to the populous of Iraq from 1918-1919. I have the entire set of 66 issues made. It lists 65 but there are two issues with the same number but issued on two different dates (18^th and 25^th March 1918).

Newly Acquired Newspapers - Iraq, Australia

I recently found some unusual newspapers online and I'm in the process of adding them to the archive. The one I just finished today downloading is called Klílā d-warde (Crown of roses) . It's an Iraqi monthly newspaper that was issued under Ottoman rule from August 1904 and July 1908 by the Christian Dominican Fathers in Mosul. I have the entire set of 48 issues made.

I also added 132 issues of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1842.

Newly Acquired Newspapers - Iraq

I recently found some unusual newspapers online and I'm in the process of adding them to the archive. The one I just finished today downloading is called Al-Zaura. It's an Iraqi weekly newspaper that was issued under Ottoman rule from Tuesday, June 15, 1869 to Tuesday, March 13, 1917 when the British conquered the area in the First World War. I managed to get 50 issues of this paper out of a possible 2,607 and will be on the lookout for more issues.

360 TB Storage Disc

   Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

   Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

   The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.

   The technology was first experimentally demonstrated in 2013 when a 300 kb digital copy of a text file was successfully recorded in 5D.

   Now, major documents from human history such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible, have been saved as digital copies that could survive the human race. A copy of the UDHR encoded to 5D data storage was recently presented to UNESCO by the ORC at the International Year of Light (IYL) closing ceremony in Mexico.

   The documents were recorded using ultrafast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is written in three layers of nanostructured dots separated by five micrometres (one millionth of a metre).

   The self-assembled nanostructures change the way light travels through glass, modifying polarisation of light that can then be read by combination of optical microscope and a polarizer, similar to that found in Polaroid sunglasses.

   Coined as the ‘Superman memory crystal’, as the glass memory has been compared to the “memory crystals” used in the Superman films, the data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz. The information encoding is realized in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures.

   Professor Peter Kazansky, from the ORC, says: “It is thrilling to think that we have created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations. This technology can secure the last evidence of our civilisation: all we’ve learnt will not be forgotten.” The disc has a life expectancy of around 13.8 billion years. To put that in perspective, that’s tantamount to the age of the universe.

   While some form of this will more than likely be developed designed for companies and agencies that need massive data storage space its more than likely will not reach the average consumer any time soon. The best the average consumer will see is the the 20 TB hard drive promised by some companies in or around 2020 as very few people have enough data to come closs to filling even one disc.

   This type of disc would be fantastic to data archivists but that still doesn't change the game. The information still has to be gathered but at least it gives a glimmer of hope for information survival.

Newly Acquired Newspapers - Iraq

I recently found some unusual newspapers online and I'm in the process of adding them to the archive. The one I just finished today downloading is called Seda Babel (Echo of Babylon). It's an Iraqi weekly newspaper that was issued under the Ottoman rule from 1909 to 1917 when the British conquered the area in the First World War. I managed to get 214 issues of this paper and will be on the lookout for more issues.

Welcome to ARCHIVE TERRA

   ARCHIVE TERRA consists of a series of time capsules containing as much human knowledge as possible. These time capsules will be located around the world in underground bunkers.

   The capsules will have their own internal power source, temperature, humidity controled, all inside an EMP protected bunker.

   While there is a hand full of others attempting to gather human knowledge they all want to use it for commercial purposes or they have their archives accessible to the internet. Their archives are not designed for long term storage of records. Also most are only confined to print while ARCHIVE TERRA will cover the following items:

1. Books
2. Comics
3. Magazines
4. Newspapers
5. Movies
6. TV Shows
7. News and Sports Events
8. Talk Radio
9. Old Time Radio
10. Podcasts
11. Music
12. Family Records