Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory

"Our archives are vulnerable. No single archive is permanent, nor large enough to store all of our cultures at risk. Modern archival methods are robust, but no archive alone can withstand the multitudes of threats we are currently facing.

The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action[2] or natural causes.[3] However, digital information can be copied easily and quickly.

Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge. We seek to preserve cultural memory in a way that traditional archives cannot. Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear.

Our archive is built according to the principles of FAIR[4] and CARE[5], based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage...."