Carnegie Mellon University's Olive project seeks to create an archive for
executable content so that all kinds of software, games, and new scholarly
articles containing programs can be preserved for the long term in the same
way that libraries now preserve analog and digital content. Carnegie Mellon
has received a grant from Sloan Foundation to continue technical work and to
develop a sustainable economic model for the eventual Olive Archive. The
purpose of this RFP is to pursue the plan
- for an effective organizational structure to sustain the archiving and
access to executable content, and
- to manage such an organization’s growth and evolution.
Responders to this RFP should propose a model organizational structure that
would be the most effective for sustaining Olive. The successful (selected)
proposer will have four months to write a white paper of 10-15 pages
including a brief environmental scan and substantive details about the
proposed model. The selected proposer will present his/her white paper at a
2014 international invitational summit of approximately ten (10)
participants who will review and evaluate the white paper and translate its
recommendations into an organizational structure.
| Review of proposals will begin | April 10, 2013 |
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| Successful proposer announced | April 26, 2013 |
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| White paper due | September 30, 2013 |
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You can access the full RFP from this link: