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Olive Executable Archive – Enable libraries to achieve their mission of preserving the scholarly record

Olive is a collaborative project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games, and other executable content. Born at Carnegie Mellon University, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content.

Goals

  • Enable libraries to achieve their mission of preserving the scholarly records
  • Provide a platform for preserving, searching, extending, and distributing executable content
  • Establish a workflow for this preservation
  • Determine the obstacles to preservation and distribution
  • Retain executable content in its original state such that end users may interact with it freely

How it Works

  • Executable content is preserved in a full virtual machine to ensure long-term compatibility
  • Relevant Virtual Machine archives can be discovered using content and metadata searches
  • Rights are granted to launch this virtual machine
  • Virtual machine is streamed using Internet Suspend/Resume® technology
  • Like internet videos, user may begin interacting before full VM is downloaded
  • User may save VM changes to their own computer and apply them to subsequent launches”

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