List of knowledge ark projects

Here are roadmaps which are proposed to build knowledge arks or doomsday vaults on Earth or in space.

All-comprehensive repository

Existing projects

• The Time Capsule Project

Biorepository

Prioritized for initial inclusion into biorepository

• Ecological engineers

• Pollinators

• Extreme environment fauna

• Primary producers

• Temperate to cold water fishes

• Threatened and endangered animals

• Organisms important in space exploration

• Wild relatives of domesticated organisms

• Species of cultural and national importance

Potential locations

• Shackleton Crater lava tubes

Existing projects

• Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Inforepository

Existing projects

• Arch Mission
• Arctic World Archive
• Beyond Burials
• Beyond the Earth Foundation
• Internet Archive
• Memory of Mankind
• Memory of the World Programme
• Permanent Foundation
• Rosetta Project
• "Visions of Mars" DVD on Phoenix Mars lander
• Yahoo Time Capsule

Physical artifacts repository

Existing projects

• National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility

References

• Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository