Service: Safeguarding the integrity and accessibility of digital government records of national archives

Responsible organisation: The University of Surrey (Academic-Research)

The project, named ARCHANGEL, involved the U.K. National Archives, the University of Surrey and the U.K. Open Data Institute, with funding from the The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Its trial deployment in the U.K., Estonia and Norway focused on leveraging blockchain and other technologies to tackle the long-term future of digital video archives. Researchers from Surrey University’s Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) outlined their successes in developing a tamper-sensitive and future-accessible architecture for archiving audio-visual content. The system was then secured using a proof-of-authority blockchain that is distributed across multiple independent archives.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-project-for-national-archives-reports-successful-trial-for-audio-visual-content
Start/end date 2019 -
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