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The Lunar Library
The Lunar Library is the Arch Mission Foundation’s archive of human civilization that is located on the Moon. Different versions of the Lunar Library include subsets of our content. The key components of the Lunar Library are outlined below. The Lunar Library 1.0 (LL1), the Lunar Library 2.0 (LL2), and the Galactic Legacy Library (LLG). LL1 crash-landed on the Moon on the Beresheet mission, LL2 flew on the Astrobotic Peregrine 1 mission with did not reach the Moon and now may reside in the South Pacific on Earth. LLG landed successfully in the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission. Read the Lunar Library I White Paper here.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It consistently ranks as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 it is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush.
The Rosetta Project
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation's first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods. The Rosetta Project collection has grown to over 100,000 pages of documents, as well as language recordings, for over 2,500 languages. The collection is now housed as a special collection in the Internet Archive, and we continue to expand the collection through new materials and contributions.
Panlex
Panlex is a nonprofit whose mission is to overcome language barriers to human rights, information and opportunities. For over 10 years Panelex has been building the world’s largest lexical translation database. By transforming thousands of translation dictionaries into a single common structure, the PanLex database makes it possible to derive billions of lexical translations that are not found in any single dictionary.
The Internet Archive
The Arch Mission archives include thousands of resources from the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is a non-profit that serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks and was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
The Arch Mission Primer
The Arch Mission Primer is a special collection of curated knowledge designed to teach common sense consensus knowledge to a potential future recipient of our storage devices. The Primer is designed as a “staircase of knowledge” starting from basic concepts and building to higher level ideas. The system begins with a curated collection of visual dictionaries and encyclopedias in multiple languages. By anchoring approximately 1 million core concepts with visual imagery, we can ground them in a sensory basis. From the visual knowledge in 5 languages, the Primer then connects formally through language translation tables to all known languages, and from languages they connect to the top articles in English from multiple Encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, as well as numerous documents on technical specifications and standards, character sets and languages, necessary to understanding and decoding the deeper layers of the Archives, which include advanced level textbooks, digital files, as well as source code and data structures for software.
The Arch Mission Private Library
The Arch Mission Private Library is a 60 million page private collection of more than a million important books, documents, files and other resources that document our civilization and all known civilizations that came before us. The Library covers every subject for every level of education, in many languages, and includes collections of books and periodicals, textbooks and reference materials, historical and present day collections of documents, software code, audio, film, video, photographs and data sets. Content is sourced from privately owned content collections, publicly available content, and content that was gifted to the AMF for this purpose. The contents of the AMF Private Library are only available to potential recipients of our archives in the distant future, and not open to anyone living today due to privacy and copyright restrictions – there are many excellent libraries already in existence today that serve that purpose.
The Arch Mission Archives and Vaults
The Arch Mission includes various Archives and Vaults on its missions. These are kept private until and unless the parties providing them wish for them to be disclosed. They include archives for all the Arch Mission team members, sponsors, partners and advisors. They also include special content collections, such as David Copperfield’s Magic Secrets. Private archives and Vaults may also be encrypted, with the encryption keys released by the owners in the future upon their death or other specified events taking place.
LifeShip
LifeShip is a mission-driven space and genomics company founded in San Francisco, California. We use a state-of-the-art lab to preserve DNA in synthetic amber, and then protect it in a genetic time capsule saved in space for endless possibilities in the far future. Lifeship is preserving the DNA of thousands of humans and plant and animal species and sending it to space for long-term safe-keeping. LifeShip DNA archives are included on some AMF missions, along with special additional payloads in DNA, including the Wikipedia and the works of Shakespeare written into synthetic DNA.
SETI’s Earthling Project
The Earthling Project, collects songs from people worldwide to create musical compositions and send them into space. The project is a collaboration between SETI Artist-in-Residence Felipe Pérez Santiago, the SETI Institute, and the Arch Mission Foundation, a nonprofit that archives human knowledge for future generations. The Earthling Project consists of gathering human voices from all over the world to create global online compositions and send them into space as a representation of our species united as one. The Earthling Project is part of a collaboration between Pérez Santiago and Dr. Jill Tarter, co-founder of the SETI Institute and an astronomer best known for her pioneering work in SETI research.
Arch Lunar Art Archive
The Arch Lunar Art Archive is an extension of the Arch Mission Foundation’s commitment to document and preserve human culture around the solar system. The ALAA featured artists were selected based on diversity of materials, age, nationality, and an ability to speak to today’s exceptional cultural moment. This unprecedented context allows for new meanings and perspectives to emerge when artists from around the world are placed in dialogue with one another for the very first time. Artists in the Arch Lunar Art Archive have exhibited in museums, are featured in major public collections, and have shown in galleries world-wide. The diverse global archive contains unique examples of art in all media.