Eastman-kodak Company

Louis G Horvath

Victor C Wong

Nelson Adrian Blish

Badhri Narayan

Robert S Jones

Donald R Williams

Robert B Bayley

Robert V Reisch

Vishwas G Abhyankar

Robert Breslawski

A digital preservation system () for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (), for storage of the medium (), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (. The digital preservation system () preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. A preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.

Preview function in a digital data preservation system

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Louis G Horvath