Embedding Preservability: Iframes in Complex Scholarly Publications

Abstract

As part of a research project, a small team of preservation experts embedded within publisher workflows to analyze the challenges associated with preserving complex scholarly publications. Patterns emerged regarding preservation-friendly practices that could potentially be incorporated into production processes and platforms to support preservation at scale. One common threat to the preservability of the analyzed publications is the inclusion of web pages that are hosted by a third party (e.g., YouTube videos, ArcGIS visualizations) within the text using iframes. The team explored methods to improve preservability in such instances while considering the constraints of the project partners and the requirement that preservation services can scale their processes across numerous publications. A paper accompanying this poster is in the University of Illinois IDEALS repository at https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121066.