The finding aid is printed in font size twelve. This means it is perfectly legible. The pages with the miniaturizations can be read perfectly with light and a magnifying glass. Using a smartphone, you can easily enlarge and decipher the contents. If you use a standard office scanner, you can enlarge all the details on the screen.

A table of contents is included in the magazine book as a finding aid. It is printed in normal size and is easy to read. The page numbers make it easy to locate the document you are looking for. You have the option of storing your own keywords in the metadata. From this we then generate a search term index for your content. We also add this expression to the end of the magazine book. This makes it very easy to find documents in the stack.

We use uncoated special paper for our prints. It is wood-free and complies with the archive standard DIN ISO 9706. This is why it has been approved by the Federal Archives for use in long-term archiving. We also print a color reference chart to ensure reliable reconstruction of the colors. We call the process for storing original color information in grayscale arCODECO. In this process, the color channels are first separated and then printed on paper in monochrome. The colors can later be reproduced on the computer. The quality is astonishing! The advantage is that when printing in grayscale, only one color ages. So there are no differences to other printing inks.

Content that you put on paper with armaGETON can of course be authentically digitized again afterwards. This can be done, for example, with a standard office scanner. Software extracts the individual file from each printed page. The metadata from the QR code is recorded at the same time and written back into the new file. This is precisely where the decisive advantage of hybrid archiving lies. Our software can extract the individual documents from a scan and write the metadata including the file name and path. For this purpose, we have included the QR code under each file. This means that armaGETON can also be used as a full backup in the event of data loss. For individual documents, simply taking a photo with a smartphone is sufficient.

Because all digital processes are dependent on technology. An analog data storage device provides reliable protection against online data theft, encryption Trojans, technical failure, deliberate deletion or manipulation. It makes you independent of electricity, the internet, technology and cloud providers. The information is not simply gone; the beginning of a process of decay is gradual and noticeable in good time.

Storing data on analog data carriers is always CO2-neutral. Storage and use always take place without energy. In this way, information can be preserved for many generations. Apart from the costs for the storage facility, there are no further costs. Paper is also easy to recycle. It does not contain any rare earths like digital data carriers and can be easily disposed of. Furthermore, multiple digital storage is not necessary.

Digital archiving becomes very expensive as the storage period increases. This is due to the ongoing effort of having to migrate the data. With armaGETON, the costs for electricity, personnel, servers, software licenses, software maintenance, operating system maintenance, data storage, data storage changes, migration and cyber insurance are eliminated for the next 200 years. Savings of up to 99% of the costs for digital data storage are therefore possible.

Electronic storage is convenient for quick access to digital files and folders. An analog image is particularly secure for data preservation. archium has combined both storage methods for hybrid archiving. In this way, digital copies and files of future historical sources are reliably protected against data loss. The arTUX database already provides for the analogization of content. Contact us. We will be happy to advise you.

When digitization slowly began to gain momentum in all areas of life in the 1990s, hybrid archiving was inevitable. Files were stored in paper form in folders and later banished to microfilm or microfiche to save space. The cost of digital storage was very high at the time and computer technology was not as powerful as it is today. During this transitional phase, people began to gradually digitize all files, documents, microfilm and other analog data storage devices. The process of digitizing analog documents when needed is called "scan-on-demand". The information was to be mobilized and made electronically available everywhere. This required heavy investment in IT infrastructure. At the same time, the question arose as to how to deal with machine-generated documents. People now began to archive in parallel: digital files on one data storage device and paper files in analog folders. But strictly speaking, this is not hybrid archiving, since it was not the same information that was archived in different ways, but different information in different ways. Redundancy is missing! Since the majority of information is now generated by machines (born digital), system-independent long-term archiving can only be carried out analogously through genuine hybrid archiving. The most reliable data carriers for this purpose are still microfilm, microfiche or paper. Since there are no starting materials for microfilm and microfiche that can also store color information, color printing on archival paper is the ideal solution. In combination with the miniaturization of documents based on microfilm, the space problem is also taken care of. Access to information is guaranteed with hybrid archiving even when access to digital files is no longer possible.