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21 Terabytes of Open Source Code Is Now Stored in an Arctic Vault – Vice Impact
Other artifacts stored in the archive include manuscripts from the Vatican Library and masterpieces from the National Museum of Norway.
For those worried about preserving the heritage of open source coding for future generations, rest assured, a deposit of GitHub’s public repositories has made it safely to the Arctic World Archive.
According to a GitHub blog post, the code was successfully deposited on July 8, 2020 to the Github Arctic Code Vault—a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive, a facility for data preservation in Svalbard, Norway. The effort is part of the Github Archive Program and is Github’s second d…
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