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There are huge quantities of microfilm material in the archives of organisations and institutions in the UK and it is not difficult to understand why. Huge volumes of paper documents that needed to be kept for the long term were…

The GDPR Conference Europe was held recently in London and it was surprising to get the feeling that a lot of businesses have not prepared for or are even aware of GDPR. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has been around…

With the increase in digital storage media and formats and the need for archives to be accessible, lots of organisations had begun to see microfilm as an old-fashioned medium for storing documents but as time moves on we are seeing…

You’ve probably noticed by now that although we embark on many different projects involving digitisation we still feel very strongly about our old friend microfilm. “Microfilm – It’s not all negative” After all it is microfilm that has made Genus…

IDMi Deputy Editor John Baker is on his soapbox (again) regarding ‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics reporters’ and is backed-up by Paul Negus, MD of Genus I read with interest / alarm / disgust, (delete as applicable, but I reckon all of…

As a culture, we value high definition (HD) image resolution. An anthropological study has yet to be done on the societal importance of advanced image quality (I think) but the fact remains that HD is now a common feature in…

In May this year Fujifilm Inc. of America, officially announced the arrival of a new Fujifilm microfilm for the US market. The new Fujifilm is compatible with all 16mm raster image recorders, and comes in both 16mm x 30.5m (100ft) and…

As a small organisation we use digital data day in, day out. Of course we do. Everybody does. However what do we do about those really important documents that we have to keep forever – lease documents, property title deeds,…