Knowledge preservation initiatives
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Some knowledge preservation initiatives.
| Name | Description | Location | Website | Wikipedia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Mission Foundation | Non-profit organization whose goal is to create multiple redundant repositories of human knowledge around the Solar System, including on Earth. It was founded by Nova Spivack and Nick Slavin in 2015. | Solar System | https://archmission.org/ | Arch Mission Foundation |
| Archive Team | Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. | Worldwide | https://www.archiveteam.org/ | Archive Team |
| Arctic World Archive | A world archive to help preserve the world's digital memory and ensure that the world's most irreplaceable digital memories of art, culture and literature are secured and made available to future generations. | Svalbard, Norway | https://arcticworldarchive.org/ | Arctic World Archive |
| International Internet Preservation Consortium | International organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve internet content for the future. It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions, and had grown to 35 members by January 2010. As of October 2017, there are 54 members. | Worldwide | http://netpreserve.org/ | International Internet Preservation Consortium |
| Internet Archive | San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of October 2016, its collection topped 15 petabytes. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet. | San Francisco, United States | https://archive.org/ | Internet Archive |
| Long Now Foundation | Non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. | San Francisco, United States | http://longnow.org/ | Long Now Foundation |
| Memory of Mankind | Preservation project funded in 2012 by Martin Kunze. The main goal is to preserve the knowledge about our present civilization from oblivion and collective amnesia. Information is printed on ceramic tablets, then stored in the salt mine of Hallstatt, Austria. More than a simple archive project, it aims to create the "Time capsule of our era", letting people participate by allowing them to submit texts and images. In contrast to national archives, content for MOM is collected by anyone who takes part. It is a collective, "bottom-up" told history. | Hallstatt, Austria | https://www.memory-of-mankind.com/ | Memory of Mankind |
| Memory of the World Programme | International initiative launched by UNESCO to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction. It calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity, the reconstitution of dispersed or displaced documentary heritage, and the increased accessibility to and dissemination of these items. | Worldwide | https://en.unesco.org/partnerships/partnering/memory-world | Memory of the World Programme |
| Rosetta Project | A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD; it is run by the Long Now Foundation. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500 languages. Some of these languages have fewer than one thousand speakers left. | http://rosettaproject.org/ | Rosetta Project | |
| Voyager Golden Record | The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them. | Escaping the Solar System | http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html | Voyager Golden Record |
| Wikipedia to the Moon | A group of science enthusiasts from Berlin, Germany, are planning to send their own custom-built rover to the Moon. And they want to take Wikipedia with them. | Moon, Solar System | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon | Wikipedia to the Moon |