Arctic World Archive

It's in there.

It's called the Arctic World Archive.

It's a real thing.

Doomsday sort of stuff.

It's in there.

It's called the Arctic World Archive.

Huh.

It's a real thing.

So I think it's actually an important thing to preserve that kind of work.

Archiving and preserving work, and in particular digital data, is exactly what I'm going to talk about with my two guests today, Rona Bjorkestrand, who you just heard, and Katrina Leon, both from an archive of a very special kind, the Arctic World Archive in Norway.

So, make yourself a hot drink and join me for a tour to the island of Spitsbergen.

But before we go to Spitsbergen, let's go to another island.

In addition to the permafrost, which helps to preserve things, of course, it is located in a demilitarized zone and in an area of high global stability.

Well, at least for now.

And because of all of that, it was chosen in 2017 as the location of yet another archive, an archive to store digital data, the Arctic World Archive.

To be perfectly honest, until earlier this year, 2026, I was pretty unaware of the archive.

Perhaps lesser known is the second one, the one that stores and archives data.

It's known as the Arctic World Archive, and I had the great fortune to talk to two of the co-founders, Kathrin Leon and Rune Bjerkestrand.

I hope you tune in then and thanks for listening.

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