Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)

New types of educational electronic content such as learning games and interactive data visualizations are transforming teaching research and scholarly publishing. However, such executable content is difficult to preserve. A team of Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and library staff currently are building Olive, an archiving system for executable content. To better inform the development of the system, this team will work with other collaborators at the University of Illinois and with publisher Reed Elsevier, Inc. to identify the significant properties of executable content that must be preserved over time in a digital archive, and to explore possible refinements to existing models for building and evaluating digital archive systems. Knowledge gained from this study will be shared broadly and will help the project team as it develops and evaluates the Olive archive.