List of knowledge ark projects

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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

  • Crypt of Civilization
  • National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility

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