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MoMA’s Digital Art Vault
- niels_olson 12y ago1.2 million gigabytes ... doesn't seem all that radical. Bigger than my home storage, but only by 500 times. I also have RAID and remote backups with provable error protection.
- zachrose 12y agoI wonder where it comes from. I would guess that it's a few small works like software and games, and then a lot of high-res digital transfers of films, scans of 2-D work, and photos of sculptures and installations.
- mcantelon 12y agoSome of it's 4K video I think.
- zachrose 12y agoFor sure. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 8K scans of some things, too. I would be curious how much compression their archival system does on top of whatever original format was used.
- sp332 12y agoFFV1 has been gaining popularity as an archival (lossless) video codec. It gets about 2:1 compression. I would guess that higher-res scans would compress better because neighboring pixels would look more similar, but I haven't seen any actual data supporting that. Lossless audio codecs like FLAC also get about 2:1 compression, so I'd use that as a rule of thumb for archival audio & video in general.
- explosion 12y agoIt's good that they're planning for their future storage needs to increase drastically. I suspect that 1.2 petabytes will seem like a gross underestimate in 2025, though :)
- motdiem 12y agoI think it's great to see museum thinking more about long term storage of digital art - this is a topic that I believe will become more important in the 10 years to come, as more artist create digital or online works of art - there might even be interesting opportunities for services that preserve digital art for collectors