Carnegie Mellon – Olive RFP

Our colleagues from Carnegie Mellon are soliciting responses to a Request for Proposal for a white paper on a model organizational structure for sustaining their Olive project. Members of the CNI community are invited to respond. A URL with a link to the full RFP is included below.

–Joan Lippincott
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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

1. for an effective organizational structure to sustain the archiving and access to executable content, and
2. 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.

You can access the full RFP from this link:

https://olivearchive.org/rfp/