Digital Time Capsule Buried in Swiss Alps

In order to demonstrate digital impermanence, scientists from the European Planets Project deposited a time capsule containing five of today's most common types of digital objects into the Swiss Fort Knox data center. The time capsule contains a JPEG photograph, a message in Java source code, a short film in .MOV format, a web-page in HTML and a brochure in PDF.

According to the Planets website, the deposited box also included..

…conversion tools that were used to migrate the objects as...