English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I met with the 2 co-founders, Rune Bjerkestrand and Katrina Leon to find out what's behind AWA and how data can be preserved for the longterm.

Links

• https://arcticworldarchive.org
• https://piql.com the PIQL way of storing data on film
• https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/ GitHub is on AWA
• https://www.seedvault.no/ The Global Seed Vault on the same island
• https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Storing data in glass - Microsoft's Project Silica
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism the Antikythera mechanism - an object found in 1901 and seemingly an ancient (analog) computer

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