![]() ![]() "For Mexico, it's important documents, even from the Inca period, which is a very important historical memory."īut Bjerkestrand said the deposit could be any kind of data, from meteorological observations to manufacturing plans to classical literature. "In their case, is documents, different kinds of documents from their national histories, like, for example, the Brazilian Constitution," Bjerkestrand said. ![]() The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world. With Tuesdays deposit, it contains one million different seeds, from almost all nations. Mounting concern over climate change and species loss is driving groups worldwide to add their seeds to the. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. So far, the National Archives of Brazil and Mexico have sent data to be stored in the underground vault, Bjerkestrand said. A 'doomsday vault' nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural bounty in case of global catastrophe. The company claims it could be preserved for up to 1,000 years. The data Piql has tested would be preserved for at least 500 years, according to Norway's national broadcaster NRK. According to Bjerkestrand, the films' data is like "carved in stone."įilms also allow for long-term preservation. ![]() Once printed, the physical rolls of film cannot be edited, nor are they at risk of remote attacks (as digital data might be). The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on an Arctic mountainside in 2008, was designed as a storage facility to protect vital crop seeds against the worst cataclysms. The vault was built in 2008 to withstand man-made and natural disasters and is part of an international effort to ensure the preservation of a wide variety of plant seeds. Bjerkestrand explained that the data to be preserved would be sent to the film writers in the same way data is sent to an office printer, using a secure IT infrastructure (i.e., internet, VPN, or other data-transfer system). A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples will contain one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles. 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. Now, the company is using their analog storage technique to take on data preservation for the world. Piql was founded in 2002 as a company that converted films from digital to analog. ![]()
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