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Abstract
The history and technological development of laser video and digital disks for archival storage of photographs, video frames, text, and drawings are discussed in detail, and a comparison made between these technologies. These media have a very high information density and provide fast random access. Also, they have great potential for interactive computerized archival storage and retrieval. To illustrate the application to storage of visual information, an interactive archive and retrieval system based on laser video disks has been developed for the 80,000 baseline negatives of Hartlepool Power Station.