[EN] Data on ice: the Arctic World Archive

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 Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/