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- Seems to focus on streamed execution of legacy software.
- Has overlap with DAP. Only client software is available, server software not released yet. Might be usable for extractors that require a special OS/software environment. Software only available for Linux. Software may not be mature enough. June 2013 presentation listed "thin-client execution in OpenStack" as a future work item.
- Good overview presentation: May 2013, presented to Library of Congress, "Not a Graveyard: The Olive Archive Project". Good technical presentation of the client software VMNetX: June 2013, "Building VMNetX with qemu and libvirt".
What is it
A collaborative (originally between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and IBM Research) project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games and other executable content. Born at CMU, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content.
-- From olivearchive.org
Executable content examples: simulation models, tutoring systems, expert systems, data visualization tools, company's product information page that are dynamically generated that customizes the content and appearance at run time.
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