Arctic World Archive

Arctic World Archive
Arctic World Archive is located in Svalbard
Arctic World Archive
Location within Svalbard
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeArchive
LocationSpitsbergen
AddressVei 706
Town or cityLongyearbyen
CountryNorway
Coordinates78°14′17.9″N 15°26′49.5″E / 78.238306°N 15.447083°E / 78.238306; 15.447083
Elevation130 m (430 ft)
OpenedMarch 27, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-27)
Website
Official website

The Arctic World Archive (AWA) is a facility for data preservation, located in the Svalbard archipelago on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, not far from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contains data of historical and cultural interest from several countries, as well as all of American multinational company GitHub's open source code, in a deeply buried steel vault, with the data storage medium expected to last for 500 to 1,000 years. It is run as a profit-making business by private company Piql and the state-owned coal-mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK).