World War Z Archive

[Ophelia Gurin]

WorldArchives, operator of NewspaperArchive.com, is one of the largest archives of off-copyright historic newspapers available in the world with close to 300 million pages of content. With over 15,000 newspaper titles from 47 countries, NewspaperArchive.com boasts a rich data set estimated to be 98% unique when compared to other leading brands. NewspaperArchive.com enables consumers, institutions, and libraries alike to investigate historical records and trace family history. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, World Archives has thousands of consumer and institutional subscribers worldwide. For more information, visit www.newspaperarchive.com or follow @newspaper_arch on Twitter.

The Arctic World Archive (AWA), set 300 metres inside the decommissioned Mine 3 (Gruve 3), holds digital treasures from around the world. Here in the permafrost conditions of the mountain where it remains cool, dry and dark, data stored can last for centuries on future proof storage medium.

It is not possible to go inside the archive, however tours of Mine 3 take you past the entrance where you can read about the most notable deposits, including institutions such as The National Museum of Norway, the Vatican Library, the National Archives of Mexico and Brazil, the European Space Agency, UNICEF, GitHub (Arctic Code Vault) and many others.

A large number of factors related to technology and societal change, wars and potential natural disasters make it extremely demanding to preserve digital memories for the long-term. AWA provides an opportunity to pass information on to future generations so that those with knowledge of their past can have a meaningful present and future.

AWA welcomes deposits from cultural and heritage institutions as well as private companies, with depositing ceremonies held twice a year. Email in...@arcticworldarchive.org to book your deposit or see www.arcticworldarchive.org for more information.

The Archive of World Music at Loeb Music Library collects archival field recordings of musics worldwide, as well as commercial audiovisual recordings and streaming resources of ethnomusicological interest.

The Archive has developed important collections from Asia and the Middle East. It holds diverse archival material, such as wide-ranging Chinese songs acquired by Harvard Professor Emeritus Rulan Pian; extensive field recordings made by Martha Forsyth in 1980s of traditional Bulgarian songs; field recordings of Tvisngur (male polyphony in Iceland); and !Kung field recordings. Numerous recordings of Indonesian music have also been acquired, primarily on commercial sound cassettes.

While collection development focuses on the Middle East, Asia and Africa, the Archive is expanding its holdings of recordings from Mexico, Central and South America, as well as from all around the globe.

Substantial grant funding from the Laura Boulton Foundation, the Sema Vakf Foundation, and the Harvard University Library Digital Initiative has supported efforts to preserve and digitize collections.

Except where otherwise noted, this work is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows anyone to share and adapt our material as long as proper attribution is given. For details and exceptions, see the Harvard Library Copyright Policy 2024 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College.

The data in the tables below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 1st October 2019. The percentages do not take into account the case of parliaments for which no data was available at that date. Comparative data on the percentage of women in each National Parliament as well as data concerning the two regional parliamentary assemblies elected by direct suffrage can be found on separate pages. You can use the PARLINE database to view detailed results of parliamentary elections by country. Consult the archive of statistical data on women in National Parliaments. From November 2019, world and regional averages of the percentage of women in parliament are now being published on Parline, the IPU's open data platform: -averages

Total MPs46'218Gender breakdown known for46'218Men34'878Women11'340 Percentage of women24.5%

Total MPs39'013Gender breakdown known for39'013Men29'423Women9'590Percentage of women24.6%Total MPs7'205Gender breakdown known for7'205Men5'455Women1'750Percentage of women24.3%Regions are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single HouseIPU's regional groupings for calculatiing regional averages of women in national parliaments have been reorganized at 1 January 2019. the current composition of each group may be consulted in this document

Buried deep in a decommissioned coal mine in the northernmost settlement of the world lies the Arctic World Archive. This apocalyptic vault is designed to preserve both physical and digital artifacts for future generations in the event of a global disaster.

The archive is now located 300 meters deep inside a decommissioned coal mine in an Arctic mountain, where it houses manuscripts from the Vatican Library, artifacts of Brazilian soccer history, masterpieces from Rembrandt and Munch, and other cultural treasures such as popular music, scientific breakthroughs, and political histories.

Deposits from organizations in 17 different countries have been made into the vault, with the first deposits made by the national archives of Mexico and Brazil. In 2019, GitHub initially added thousands of projects to the vault, including source code for the Android operating system and Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

To ensure the safety of the source code, it was imperative to find an offline medium that could withstand all foreseeable threats. As it turns out, chemically stable and unalterable film was the best tool available for the job.

This process of using the film to preserve data was created by Piql. It consists of converting files into QR codes and then writing them onto individual frames in a reel of film. The reel is then processed in a developer cartridge, before going through an intensive quality assurance check.

The first few frames on each reel of film contain instructions in five different languages on how to convert the QR codes into usable files. All that a future human would need to reconstruct the data is a computer, a camera, and a light source. The film reels are stored inside steel-walled containers, deep within the earth.

It is believed that the film will be able to last up to 500 years in the vault, which is positioned to withstand whatever mankind faces over the coming years, including the effects of climate change. The vault is also in what is considered one of the most geopolitically stable locations on the planet.

In 2006, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Climatology (CCl) WMO OPAG 2 group unanimously agreed to the creation of a world archive for verifying, certifying and storing world weather extremes. They agreed that a set of procedures should be established such that existing record extremes are verified and made available to the general public and that future weather record extremes are verified and certified.

They agreed that future weather extremes would be evaluated by a committee consisting of the WMO CCl Rapporteur for Climate Extremes, the chair of the OPAG 2 group, the chair of the overarching CC1 group, a regional authority, and as necessary an authority associated with the specific type of record (temperature, pressure, hail, tornado, tropical cyclone, etc.). The committee would recommend a finding to the Rapporteur. The Rapporteur for Climate Extremes would have final authority and responsibility for certifying the record.

It has been over ten years since the first World Happiness Report was published. And it is exactly ten years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/281, proclaiming 20 March to be observed annually as International Day of Happiness. Since then, more and more people have come to believe that our success as countries should be judged by the happiness of our people. There is also a growing consensus about how happiness should be measured. This consensus means that national happiness can now become an operational objective for governments.

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2019 focuses on happiness and the community: how happiness has evolved over the past dozen years, with a focus on the technologies, social norms, conflicts and government policies that have driven those changes.

The World Happiness Report 2016 Update, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released in Rome in advance of UN World Happiness Day, March 20th. The widespread interest in the World Happiness Reports, of which this is the fourth, reflects growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development. Because of this growing interest, many governments, communities and organizations are using happiness data, and the results of subjective well-being research, to enable policies that support better lives.

The second World Happiness Report, released on Sept 9th 2013, further strengthens the case that well-being should be a critical component of how the world measures its economic and social development.

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