Image archive disc

An optical medium comprising a substrate which stores a plurality of archived images in a human detectable form on a surface of the substrate and control data associated with the archived images to facilitate optical recovery of said human detectable images from the surface, the archived images arranged as a sequence of adjacent tiles on a recording layer of the optical medium each tile having an associated length and width, the control data comprising computer readable information that identifies at least one of the plurality of archived images, wherein at least a portion of the control data is arranged in the form of an identification (ID) tile having length and width dimensions nominally identical to the length and width dimensions of at least one of the plurality of archived images.

A method comprising:

• arranging a plurality of archived images as a sequence of tiles each having associated length and width;
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• storing the plurality of archived images arranged by the arranging step in a human detectable form and control data associated with the archived images on a surface of a substrate of a rotatable optical disc, the control data comprising machine readable information that identifies an overall content of the plurality of archived images, at least a portion of the control data arranged in the form of an identification (ID) tile having length and width dimensions nominally corresponding to the length and width of at least one of the plurality of archived images.