IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

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1:30pm EEST

Azimuth Adjustments: Will We Do All Our Collections Again?

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The current methodology to correct azimuth on quarter inch audio tape based upon a combination of spectral tools and listening abilities has led in the last 25 years to common practices how to digitize tapes with wrongly adjusted azimuth. In a recent field test with senior archive audio engineers and young students, a test was done to compare different approaches how to adjust azimuth – based upon ears, spectral tools, and completely new approaches. The test results of traditional and new methodologies will be presented, which might put a new light and a question in the way how collections have been digitised in the past.

Speakers

Jean-Christophe Kummer

Managing Partner, NOA GmbH

Jean-Christophe Kummer is responsible for business development, company management, and the worldwide expansion of NOA systems. From his early days, he has been an entrepreneur. After earning his Tonmeister degree in Vienna in the early 90s, he was involved in many classical recordings... Read More →

Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design

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Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, Hybrid

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

3:30pm EEST

Permanent Records, Permanent Access, Permanent Readability: Cerabyte The New Storage Technology

Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Existing storage technologies for medium- to long-term preservation, such as magnetic tape, as well as emerging approaches for very long-term storage, including DNA, Microsoft Silica/SPhotonix, and Holomem, still face significant limitations in fast access and high-performance readout. Without these capabilities, any new storage medium is unlikely to meet the practical requirements of contemporary and future data storage infrastructures.

Cerabyte introduces a new technology for permanent, sustainable, and cost-efficient data storage over extended periods, while delivering high-performance and random-access. Based on ceramic materials, the medium suffers no bit rot and withstands humidity, high temperature, corrosion, and magnetic pulses.

A technology intended to preserve data across centuries raises two fundamental questions for archives: first, how can data be read if the original reading technology is no longer available; and second, assuming the bits can be recovered, how can they be translated into meaningful information?

Although Cerabyte provides dedicated high-performance readers, the stored data can also be read independently using standard industrial microscopy. Provided that the error-correction algorithms remain known, the encoded information can be reconstructed from the recovered bit patterns.

Our presentation will demonstrate such an independent recovery workflow. A feature film from one of the world’s largest entertainment corporations, whose name will be disclosed prior to IASA, will be written to Cerabyte media. It will be read using an industrial microscope and a makeshift decoder developed by CERN.

The workflow, technical approach, and results will be presented and discussed at IASA.

Speakers

Martin Kunze

CMO, Cerabyte & Memory of Mankind

Martin Kunze is an Austrian silicate technologist, ceramics specialist, and visionary inventor dedicated to preserving information for future generations. In 2012, he founded the groundbreaking Memory of Mankind project, a unique time capsule of our civilization etched onto durable ceramic tiles a... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, In Person

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

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IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

1:30pm EEST

Jean-Christophe Kummer

Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

3:30pm EEST

Martin Kunze

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