{"id":9205,"date":"2021-10-04T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/gandhijis-films-to-be-preserved-for-more-than-500-years-with-piql-norway-technology\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T07:10:18","slug":"gandhijis-films-to-be-preserved-for-more-than-500-years-with-piql-norway-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/gandhijis-films-to-be-preserved-for-more-than-500-years-with-piql-norway-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhiji\u2019s Films to Be Preserved for More Than 500 Years with Piql-Norway Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 02: <\/strong>Gandhi Film Foundation (GFF) & Piql Norway proudly announce their association to preserve the Gandhi Films Foundation Films for more than 500 Years with Piql Technology.\u00a0An Announcement about this association has been jointly made today on 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0October 2021\u00a0(152nd<\/sup>\u00a0Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi) by Mr Nitin Potdar, Chairman of Gandhi Films Foundation from Mumbai, India & Mr\u00a0Rune\u00a0Bjerkestrand\u00a0Managing Director, Piql, AS from Drammen, Norway.<\/p>\n

It is the first such attempt in India to preserve the Digital Data of scanned Films by Piql Process for long term preservation.<\/p>\n

Mr Ujwal Nirgudkar, Trustee, Gandhi Films Foundation, has taken the initiative for this association. Mr Subhash Jaykar, another trustee, selected two films for this project.\u00a0Mr Ramesh Bajaj Piql, Associate from India, coordinated with Piql, Norway, for this project.<\/p>\n

Two Films are selected initially for this project. The first is a 14\u00a0Mins\u00a0Documentary on Round Table Conference in London (1930-1932). This documentary also consists of Gandhiji\u2019s visit to Switzerland & Italy. The majority of the Audio content for this documentary is in English.<\/p>\n

The second\u00a0Film is an 11 Mins\u00a0Documentary on Salt March (Dandi Yatra<\/em>,12th<\/sup>\u00a0March 1930) Gujarat, India. Audio for this documentary is in Hindi & English.<\/p>\n

The rights of these Films will always remain with Gandhi Films Foundation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Piql Process is a New Patented Process of writing digital data on Black & White Film, which has a life of more than 500 Years. This life can be extended further if the recorded film is stored at a sub-zero temperature at Piql\u2019s Arctic World Archive (AWA) in Norway.<\/p>\n

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(Mr Nitin Potdar and Mr Rune Bjerkestrand)<\/em><\/p>\n

About this initiative, Mr Nitin Potdar, Chairman of Gandhi Films Foundation, Mumbai, said,\u00a0\u201cThe Films of Gandhiji contain his valuable teachings that need to be preserved for our future generations. If we don\u2019t do it,<\/em> I guess, we would be failing in our duty towards our Country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Rune Bjerkestrand, Managing Director, PIQL, Norway,\u00a0quoted,\u00a0\u201cWe are delighted to be supporting this project and preserving this valuable cultural heritage for the future\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

About Gandhi Films Foundation<\/strong>\"🙁\"\u00a0www.gandhifilmsfoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0)\u00a0The main aim of Gandhi Films Foundation is to Preserving Rare Clips for everyone eager to know about Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s dedicated life for humans.\u00a0Many unknown cameramen in this world have shot these important events of freedom struggle and different parts of Gandhi\u2019s life with many difficulties, which made it possible for us to obtain these rare clips under one roof and present to the future generation through our website. Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, New Delhi, have obtained all these clippings and Gandhi Films Foundation preserving these rare clips for the students, researchers, and everyone interested in Mahatma Gandhi and eager to know about his dedicated life for human beings. The foundation aims to create perpetuate the memories of Mahatma Gandhi with the active participation of the common man in India. The objectives of the Gandhi Film Foundation is to create live memorials of Gandhiji instead of erecting his statues and thus created 48 institutions spread over all Indian states.<\/p>\n

About Piql<\/strong>: (www.piql.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Piql\u00a0is a specialist provider of digital preservation\u00a0and long-term data storage. With a global footprint, we offer tailored services to a range of sectors, including historical and memory, audiovisual, private enterprise and government.\u00a0\u00a0Piql\u2019s\u00a0purpose-built technology\u00a0can\u00a0keep data alive for\u00a0hundreds of years without the need for migration. The data is secure, unalterable and can be recovered without the risk of data loss, no matter how long it is stored.\u00a0It is the only service of its kind and the only offline, migration-free technology available for long term digital preservation.\u00a0\u00a0Piql\u00a0also offers storage in the Arctic World Archive, an offline vault deep in an\u00a0Arctic Mountain\u00a0holding precious world memory. The Archive ensures the protection of the most sensitive and irreplaceable data for future generations. Growing all the time, the Archive holds treasures including\u00a0The Scream<\/em>\u00a0by Edvard Munch, ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library,\u00a0historical space data from ESA,\u00a0open-source\u00a0code from\u00a0Github, records from various national archives,\u00a0among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 02: Gandhi Film Foundation (GFF) & Piql Norway proudly announce their association to preserve the Gandhi Films Foundation Films for more than 500 Years with Piql Technology.\u00a0An Announcement about this association has been jointly made today on 2nd\u00a0October 2021\u00a0(152nd\u00a0Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi) by Mr Nitin Potdar, Chairman of Gandhi Films […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}