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Volume 6 Issue 1 - January/February 2001
Welcome to a new issue of the AMS Adviser.
AMS moving towards ASP/ISP
Seminar: Advanced notice of seminar in March 2001
Article: Digital Preservation? The answer may be analog.
New Product: Canon MS
800 A3 Digital Reader Printer
New Service: Digital
Archive Writer
Plus we have all the usual bits AMS
Services, Funny bit???
AMS
AMS on the road to become an ASP/ISP
 Over the next
few months AMS will finish setting up the infrastructure to become an Application Service
Provider (ASP). Our chief role wll be as a repository for your scanned images (ISP).
As we get closer, there will be more information in the newsletters.
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Seminar
What will
you be able to read in
5 years? 10 Years? 15 Years?
- Your digital files can be permanently lost when software and hardware technology change
or media is not updated.
- What do you do when your servers are full of scanned images that no-one looks at?
- Avoid the expensive loss, refreshing or conversion. Compliment your digital storage with
the low-cost long term archive strategy that will not go out of date.
Come and listen to Kodak and AMS who will bring you up to date on
current archiving technology.
Sessions need to be booked. See over for session times
Tea and Coffee will be available.
Please ring (03) 9690 6800 to book a time and see what the future
holds.
RSVP 6th March, 2001 Contact: Jean, Ben or Nadia
bentos@ams-imaging.com.au
sthompson@kodak.com
Long Term
Document Managing through Hybrid Systems to ensure the preservation of your Vital records. |
AS PART OF OUR ONGOING COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE
STATE OF THE ART IMAGING SERVICES,
AMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH KODAK AUSTRALIA WILL HOST A
ONE DAY IMAGING INFORMATION EVENT
14th March 2001
The SEBEL
Fawkner One Room
348 ST. KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE, 3004
On-site parking is available for $5.00
Session Times:
09:30am
11:00am
01:30pm
03:00pm
Bookings essential.
| Introduction |
Australian
Microfilm Services (AMS) will give a company profile followed with examples of combining
digital imaging with microfilm for reasons of legality, disaster recovery and longevity. |
| Archiving |
Kodak
Australia will give an overview of the market place with practical examples of where
hybrid imaging systems can compliment your digital information. |
| Question Time |
Questions
will be invited from the floor. |
Contact the following for more information.
Australian Microfilm Services
Kodak Australia
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Digital
Preservation? The answer may be Analog (Part One)
Kodak to offer film-based data storage services that could prove a boon to IT data
integrity. Other companies join worldwide promotion of the ‘digital
preservation’ concept.
Increasingly IT managers, as well as other
business executives, are realizing the pace of digital obsolescence --- software and
hardware systems --- means the time is rapidly coming when today’s digital documents
may be unmanageable. The problem: those documents will be in formats no longer readable by
tomorrow’s commercially available systems.
At last month’s Comdex/Fall Show (Nov 2000), Eastman Kodak
CEO Dan Carp in his keynote address unveiled a new service, Kodak Digital Preservation
Solutions, to solve that problem. It will allow information technology managers to
save digital data on film.
Obsolescence Happened Before;
Let’s Stop History From Repeating
No one knows how soon today’s digital images and
documents will become unreadable if they are created with software or hardware that
someday becomes outmoded. We do know it’s happened before – just ask anyone who
still has a drawer full of five-and-a-quarter inch diskettes or a Beta home video
recorder. And we do know technology disruption is accelerating, meaning you’ll have
to spend more money, more frequently if you wish to make sure that data you’ve stored
can migrate from one platform to the next," Carp said.
"What ‘s needed is a data storage system that will not be
affected by technology transitions – because the data will remain in a format that is
human readable. This system must allow the user to store vast amounts of information
economically. And, because the amount of stored data in the world doubles every 12 months,
this system must incorporate the latest digital tools for organizing and retrieving
information," he added.
Saving the Digital World
With a Click of a Mouse
Carp predicted Kodak Digital Preservation
Solutions will be a "must have" feature on PC desktops within a few years. It
will allow users to save documents and images by clicking on a desktop icon, which will
send the file to Kodak. There it will be translated into and stored in "human
readable form" i.e. microfilm. The documents will be encoded with hidden digital
information so they can be retrieved by systems as well as people.
Access would be secure and instant and retrieval would be in digital or
hard copy form, according to the users needs.
"Every IT Manager responsible for data integrity has been thinking
about this for years, " Carp said.
Next Issue: Part two covering Q&A and Tecnology Analysis.
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AMS and the Kodak Digital Archive Writer
AMS has just taken delivery of a New Kodak Digital Archive Writer model 4800.
The KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE Document
Archive Writer, Model 4800 rapidly converts digital documents to an analog format and
media for low-cost, long-term storage, disaster recovery and access.
The Document Archive Writer and supporting software accepts document images from many
digital imaging systems in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). You can organize them
according to your requirements, create an index, and write the images to film. Now you can
purge inactive information from expensive on-line and near-line storage with full
assurance that you’ll be able to retrieve and view it long into the future.
The Document Archive Writer accepts TIFF digital document images and converts them to
analog images on 16 mm silver halide-based film in excess of 100 A-4 images per minute at
40:1 reduction. Up to 18,000 A4-size images at 40:1 reduction will fit on a single roll of
film for storage that’s extremely compact
Key Features
- accepts bi-tonal TIFF image files; uncompressed or Group III or IV compressed to support
flexible input
- accepts image resolutions from 100 to 600 dpi
- adds image-mark coding to film to support rapid, automated retrieval
- writes in simplex or duplex (front/back) formats
- writes to one or two rolls of film for optional backup and security
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Canon MS 800 A3 Digital Reader Printer
Click here to go to the information page on the MS
800
Click here to go to the information page on the
MS 400/500
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AMS Services.
For the complete run down on what AMS can do for you, click on the following
link.
AMS Services
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Funny bit???
John was a clerk in a small drugstore but he was not much of a salesman. He could never
find the item the customer wanted. Bob, the owner, had had about enough and warned John
that the next sale he missed would be his last. Just then a man came in coughing and he
asked John for their best cough syrup.
Try as he might John could not find the cough syrup. Remembering Bob's warning he sold
the man a box of laxatives and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as John
said and then walked outside and leaned against a lamp post.
Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had transpired. "He
wanted something for his cough but I couldn't find the cough syrup. I substituted a
laxative and told him to take it all at once" John explained.
"Laxatives won't cure a cough" Bob shouted angrily.
"Sure it will" John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamp post.
"Look at him. He's afraid to cough."
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Next Month
In the next few issues we will have some new articles which will include the following:
- AMS is setting up to provide online storage of your images with access via direct
connect or Internet access.
- Other articles and topics of interest.
Plus all the usual bits & pieces.
Should you want a topic covered or need an article in full, please feel free to
contact AMS.
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