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The University of Surrey in the UK has announced that it is combining blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to secure the integrity of digital government records of national video archives worldwide.
“By combining blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies, we have shown that it is possible to safeguard the integrity of archival data in the digital age,” Professor John Collomosse, who leads the project at the University of Surrey, said in a press release.
According to its press release, Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) has joined hands with Open Data Institute and the National Archives in the UK to develop the blockchain-based system called ARCHANGEL. The technology is described as “a highly secure, decentralised computer vision and blockchain based system that will safeguard the long-term future of digital video archives.”
First announced by the National Archives of the UK in June 2018, ARCHANGEL'blockchain will serve as a database that is maintained by several archives. Records can be checked and added by the public, but editing or modifying any data is not allowed.
“It essentially provides a digital fingerprint for archives, making it possible to verify their authenticity,” Collomosse added.
The blockchain project will soon present the results of a successful trial deployment in the United Kingdom, Estonia, Norway, and Australia, as well as the United States’ National Archives and Records Administration.
The University of Surrey will present the paper, entitled “ARCHANGEL: Tamper-proofing video archives using temporal content hashes on the blockchain,” at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference in Los Angeles in June.
More European universities are exploring the different potentials of blockchain across various industries. Just recently, the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Research on Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology has signed a cooperation agreement with Billon Group’s subsidiary Billon Solutions to work on blockchain, with initiatives to implement a distributed ledger technology.
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