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
- Crypt of Civilization
- National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility