GitHub about the embodiment of the project to create open source texts, stored in the Arctic World Archive , capable of surviving in the event of a global catastrophe. 186 film storage , which contain photographs of information and allow data to be preserved for over 1000 years (according to other estimates, the lifespan is 500 years), have been successfully placed in an underground storage facility on Spitsbergen Island. The storage was created from an abandoned coal mine 150 meters deep, sufficient to ensure the preservation of data even in the event of a nuclear or weapons.
Approximately 21 TB of information has been preserved in the archive, representing the code of many open projects hosted on GitHub. Developers whose code has been archived are marked in their GitHub profiles with the special label 'Arctic Code Vault Contributor.' To address potential issues with the 'Arctic World Archive' storage, the possibility of creating duplicate long-term storage archives is being considered.
Microsoft's initiative development plans note the intention to create a more global information archive, encompassing a general slice of knowledge accumulated by the computer industry, including books, documentation, software development information, programming languages, electronics, microprocessors, and computing technology, as well as data on the history of technological development and cultural aspects. The initiative aims to provide comprehensive information that may help researchers from the future recreate current technologies and better understand the modern world.
Several alternative projects for creating code archives are simultaneously developing. As an experiment, the project has preserved the contents of the 6000 most popular GitHub repositories in long-term storage devices based on quartz glass plates. Data is preserved by physically altering the properties of the material, which is impervious to electromagnetic radiation, water, and heat, allowing for preservation times in the tens of thousands of years.
The '' has preserved a slice of public repositories from GitHub as of April 13. A total of about information about repositories, including comments, issues, and other metadata. In the future, the creators of Internet Archive intend to provide the ability to extract project code from the archive using the command 'git clone' (a similar service is being developed for code).
Organization , founded by the national research institute of France (Inria) with the support of UNESCO, aims to accumulate and preserve source texts. Currently, contains 130 million projects and includes the complete history of their development. 100 million of these projects have been imported from GitHub. Anyone can request the archiving of their code on the website , by providing a link to a Git, Mercurial, or Subversion repository. There is search, navigation through code, and downloading of archived projects.
Source: opennet.ru
