Arctic World Archive

Arctic World Archive
Arctic World Archive
	Location within Svalbard
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Archive
Location	Spitsbergen
Address	Vei 706
Town or city	Longyearbyen
Country	Norway
Coordinates	78°14′17.9″N 15°26′49.5″E / 78.238306°N 15.447083°E
Elevation	130 m (430 ft)
Opened	March 27, 2017
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).