The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Cerabyte to its Supporter Program this week.
With origins in the Memory of Mankind project, Cerabyte is a start-up business offering a sustainable and long-term storage technology for retaining data. The development of Cerabyte, a technology based on silicate materials, is able to preserve audio, visual, gaming and other formats – as well as text-based data.
“Cerabyte is the first technology that offers true long-term and sustainable data storage at a fast write/read speed and an affordable cost,” explains Martin Kunze, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for Cerabyte.
“We are aware that Cerabyte is only part of the solution for preserving our digital heritage. Questions of persistence, and how we handle obsolescence of file formats, security technologies and data integrity are important issues to be discussed by the community. As DPC Supporters, we are keen to participate in this discussion in order to shape Cerabyte so that it can be used in the best possible way for digital preservation.”
The DPC’s Supporter Program enables a structured, ongoing dialogue between members and solution providers; enabling vendors and solution providers to access and track the changing needs and challenges faced by DPC members.
Sarah Middleton, Head of Advocacy and Community Engagement for the DPC, welcomed the news, saying: “As an emerging technology, I am sure that Cerabyte will introduce new and interesting perspectives to the DPC Supporter Program, and great value to the DPC and its members. We look forward to learning much more about Cerabyte and its benefits, as well as working in partnership with the organisation as it develops.”
The DPC Supporter Program offers a tiered fee structure designed to enable as many different types of organization to engage with the global DPC community through focused activities, as well as the DPC’s broader program of events. This offers a route to participation for sole traders and micro-agencies, those operating on a non-profit or charitable basis, companies who offer purely open-source solutions and new entrants into the digital preservation market, as well as larger agencies.
All funds raised by the DPC Supporter Program will be used in first instance to support grants to members for training and workforce development, to subsidize training workshops or to sponsor DPC membership for charities and not-for-profits.
The DPC enables its members to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, capacity-building, good practice and good governance.