I came across a very interesting blogpost this morning http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/09/toward-a-library-of-virtual-machines-insights-interview-with-vasanth-bala-and-mahadev-satyanarayanan/#comment-880 .
The post is all about creating a virtual environment for long-term preservation and continuous access. If I understand this correctly the building of the Virtual Machine (VM) technology will be of great help especially where software and OS systems were created for specific data capture.
The blog is in the form of an interview with Vasanth Bala (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Mahadev Satyanarayanan (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University) who work on the Olive library, "a project which intends to create a library of virtual machines."
The very first question gives an explanation of what they want to accomplish with the Olive Library and its relation to digital preservation, and thereafter they explain the kinds of executable content with very clear-cut figures in the text.
An interesting read for those of us interested in Digital Stewardship.
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