E-timecapsule.com Selects Datawitness To Capture And Preserve Historical Record At Stonehenge
Jun 6th 2006

Surrey, British Columbia – June 1, 2006 - E-timecapsule.com founder Ian Ray explored and rejected all purely digital methods for recording information which will be placed in the E-timecapsule. His search and legal advice led to microfilm as the one proven medium for compact, stable, long-term storage immune to technological change. Ray selected Datawitness to capture and preserve time capsule entries on the medium most likely to survive one-hundred years underground at Stonehenge and still be readable.

"Datawitness was the logical choice to build a web-based interface and application for the project. We pioneered systems enabling organizations and individuals to transfer digital information over the Internet for preservation and archiving on microfilm via our patent-pending process," said Datawitness CEO Jag Gillan.

Datawitness integrated its archiving technology into the E-timecapsule.com web site. Datawitness also built a transaction system enabling payment by credit card and immediate creation of custom digital certificates for each entry submitted to the time capsule.

About Datawitness Online Ltd.: Datawitness, located near Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, provides online authentication and archiving solutions. Datawitness services enable businesses and governments to authenticate at source to mitigate future risk and liability. Datawitness also increases workflow efficiency by merging the immediacy of online document management, retrieval and viewing with offline microfilm archival integrity.

Developed with the assistance of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, Datawitness' web-based, patent-pending technology functions as a virtual notary service. Datawitness clients can authenticate and archive documents, and sign and send agreements and business documents for electronic signature via the Internet. The Datawitness system automatically timestamps, secures and stores in a database all digital documents or communications and preserves them in duplicate microfilm archives. The records are impervious to electronic attack and provide an irrefutable 3rd-party evidentiary audit trail.

The microfilm used for archiving is certified stable for 500 years by Kodak. The microfilm archiving process employed by Datawitness meets the requirements of the Canadian General Standards Board standard for Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence and maximizes the admissibility of archived records in court proceedings. Datawitness services are available to the public at www.datawitness.com or to registered customers of BC OnLine at https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca

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