PROTECTING WORLD MEMORY

Arctic World Archive

The Arctic World Archive, is a well recognised initiative of Piql to preserve global memory. The combination of resilient long-term storage technology and the remote, safe and cold conditions found on Svalbard, enables data to live on into the distant future.

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Secure

Secure

Your data is stored offline and out of reach of cyber-attacks, in a disaster-proof vault in one of the most geopolitically secure places in the world, the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard.

Environmentally friendly

No electricity or other human intervention is needed as the climatic conditions in the Arctic are ideal for long-term archival of film.

Future proof

Future proof

By using a self-contained and technology-independent storage medium, future generations will be able to read back the information

See the growing collection of memories

The Arctic World Archive welcomed the first deposits in 2017

To read more about the growing collection of memories now stored and find out how to become a part of this initiative, visit the Arctic World Archive’s dedicated website.

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How it works

Data to piqlFilm

When you have transferred your files to us, we write your them onto piqlFilm in recommended file formats and with related metadata.

Shipment to Svalbard

The piqlFilm is securely shipped to Svalbard and placed in the Arctic World Archive, where it can be “stored and ignored” for as long as is needed.

Data retreival

Upon your request, the data will be made available online, or shipped to you on an agreed physical medium.

Our dream is to convert our historic manuscripts to Piql, and thus be able to give this information to the next generations and to the future.
Luciano Ammenti
Luciano Ammenti Vatican Library
We’re excited to partner with Piql to help preserve open source software for future generations. Piql’s custom film and archiving technologies will allow us to store terabytes of data on a durable medium designed to last for over 1,000 years. We’re delighted that every active public GitHub repository will be written to this film, and safeguarded in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, for the centuries and generations to come.
Kyle Daigle
Kyle Daigle Director of Special Projects at GitHub.
We have a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, and we are deeply convinced that art says a lot about the world it was created in and the people who created it. We want future humanity to get an idea of who we were, by seeing the art we created today.
Gitte Ørskou
Gitte Ørskou Director of Moderna Museet.
The Arctic World Archive is not only secure, but also holding a collection of highly important information and cultural heritage. What better place to store what we view as the world’s most important document than here?
Camilla Viken
Camilla Viken Executive Director, UNICEF Norway

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