A collection of papers and talks about Olive, given over several years. See below for links and information.

Description
The team published this Carnegie Mellon technical report describing the Olive system.
Author
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Gloriana St. Clair, Benjamin Gilbert, Yoshihisa Abe, Jan Harkes, Dan Ryan, Erika Linke, Keith Webster
Date
June 2015
Description
Dan Ryan delivered this talk for the New York City Archivists Round Table conference titled Preserving and Archiving Electronically Generated Materials. This presentation offers a high-level overview of the technical and archival questions which the Olive Archive seeks to address.
Author
Dan Ryan
Date
November 19, 2013
Description
Benjamin Gilbert delivered this talk during a workshop on QEMU and KVM at Carnegie Mellon University. The talk discusses the design and implementation of VMNetX, the Olive client program, focusing on its technical interaction with libvirt and QEMU.
Author
Benjamin Gilbert
Date
June 3, 2013
Description
Satya delivered this talk and brief demonstration of Olive at the NYU Scientific Reproducibility Workshop. His talk underlined the demand and potential use of Olive in the preservation of scientific research tools and the potential to meet the challenge of replication which faces the sciences today.
Author
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Date
May 30, 2013
Description
Erika Linke and Dan Ryan presented this talk at Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software at the Library of Congress. The talk provides a brief overview of the Olive Archive and was accompanied by a live demonstration.
Author
Erika Linke, Dan Ryan
Date
May 21, 2013
Description
Dan Ryan and Gloriana St. Clair delivered this lecture as the inaugural lecture for the Gloriana St. Clair Distinguished Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.
Author
Dan Ryan, Gloriana St. Clair
Date
March 17, 2013
Description
Dan Ryan and Gloriana St. Clair presented this talk to the Coalition for Networked Information at the 2012 membership meeting. This talk describes the status and progress of work being done to develop Olive.
Author
Dan Ryan, Gloriana St. Clair
Date
December 10, 2012
Description
In this letter to the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Gloriana highlights the work that is already being done in the area of executable preservation.
Author
Gloriana St. Clair
Date
April 22, 2012
Description
Gloriana St. Clair and Daniel Ryan presented this discussion at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in the winter of 2011. Their discussion generated significant interest and covered topics including the technical infrastructure, motivation for preservation, and challenges ahead.
Author
Gloriana St. Clair, Daniel Ryan
Date
December 12, 2011
Description
This is the handout that accompanied our presentation at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in December of 2011.
Author
Gloriana St. Clair, Daniel Ryan
Date
December 12, 2011
Description
This keynote speech at the IEEE's 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing discusses the current landscape in executable content production and collaborative work. The paper outlines different types of collaboration, identifies a space for Olive, and discusses the technical aspects of its operation.
Author
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Vasanth Bala, Gloriana St. Clair, Erika Linke
Date
October 2011
Description
This is an early exploration by Satya of the Olive ecosystem. Mostly diagrams of software and hardware level interactions and the responsibilities of involved academic communities.
Author
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Date
May 7, 2010