The EU-Citizen.Science platform is part of the GitHub Archive Program

Margaret Gold
Sept. 15, 2020, 10:10 a.m.

We're really thrilled to learn that the code for the EU-Citizen.Science platform will be stored for posterity as part of the GitHub Archive Program, in the Arctic Code Vault.

GitHub is partnering with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, Microsoft Research, the Bodleian Library, and Stanford Libraries to ensure the long-term preservation of the world's open source software. Multiple copies of the code hosted on GitHub will be stored on an ongoing basis, across various data formats and locations, including a very-long-term archive designed to last at least 1,000 years.

The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain. The archive is located in a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, closer to the North Pole than the Arctic Circle. GitHub will capture a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserve that data in the Arctic Code Vault.

Find out more here: https://archiveprogram.github.com/