Digital copies of documents of special value of the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) recorded on film tape using a special process were found in a vault kept on Spitsbergen.
The cooperation partner of the national library, the Arctic World Archive (AWA), undertakes the preservation of digital data off-line in a unique way in its storage facility built in Longyearbyen, the northernmost city on Earth with a population of more than a thousand people. The microfilm rolls produced by the Norwegian company Piql were placed in the vault by Hungarian Ambassador Eszter Sándorfi in Oslo, Dávid Rózsa, Director General of OSZK, and Judit Gerencsér, Deputy Director General of OSZK, in the vault on September 23, 2021.
AWA began operations on March 27, 2017 on the largest island of the Spitsbergen (Svalbard in Norwegian), where it created a vault for storing digital copies of irreplaceable documents and artefacts in the depths of a coal mine abandoned in 1996, near the international nuclear bunker. In recent years, institutions from a total of twenty-six countries (including the Brazilian and Mexican National Archives, the Norwegian National Museum, the Vatican Apostolic Library, the University of Pisa) and international organizations (the European Space Agency and UNICEF) have placed their materials here.
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