{"id":26850,"date":"2023-11-26T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26850"},"modified":"2023-11-26T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:20:40","slug":"inside-the-incredible-archive-buried-under-a-mountain-to-mark-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/inside-the-incredible-archive-buried-under-a-mountain-to-mark-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the incredible archive buried under a mountain to mark human history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Much of the world’s most precious knowledge is being stored in a secured steel vault deeply buried under the permafrost in Norway.<\/p>\n

The Arctic World Archive (AWA) is an underground facility built inside the decommissioned Mine number three (Gruve 3) on the island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago laying midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole.<\/p>\n

Located at the centre of the permafrost, 300 metres inside the mine and below the top of a mountain, AWA has been created to store and keep data protected for the next 500 to 1000 years.<\/p>\n

Described as an “unhackable data vault” by its creators, AWA is being increasingly filled with mankind’s most valuable assets and a comprehensive image of the history and achievements made so far.<\/p>\n

Among them are the writings of Nobel laureates, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, computer software applications such as Microsoft Office, scientific breakthroughs and the Flateyjarbok, one of the most important Icelandic and Nordic manuscripts from the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

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Inaugurated in March 2017, the AWA also contains 21 terabytes of open-source code deposited by GitHub, a code hosting platform and the world\u2019s largest software repository.<\/p>\n

A similar donation aims at giving those in the far future, should humanity face an apocalyptic disaster, a head start to rebuild society.<\/p>\n

This special, disaster-proof archive also allows individuals who want to contribute to the world’s memory to send their files in digital format to be preserved for centuries.<\/p>\n

Founded by tech company Piql AS and backed by the European Union, AWA stored data have grown over the past years. Alongside GitHub, the first to make deposits to AWA have been the national archives of Brazil – whose football history will be preserved under the permafrost – and Mexico.<\/p>\n

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