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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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