Preserving human knowledge: similar projects (2014)

The Library of Utility would hold perhaps 10,000 books, collecting the essential knowledge required to recreate the infrastructure and technology of civilisation. The Foundation discusses the value of such Doomsday Manuals for cushioning the collapse of society and aiding in the rapid rebuilding of civilisation. Jakubowski’s stated aim is focused on helping developing communities and decentralising the means for production, but clearly the design specifications for a mutually-supportive set of machinery able to provide for all the requirements of an independent society is directly relevant to attempts to recover after the apocalypse.

Source: the-knowledge.org