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Use the group GitHub repository for documentation.
The group started in March 2025 and is planning to conclude by August/September 2026.
Research is often more than the text content, and can include both the software and computational environments to reproduce work. These can be shared by researchers as computational notebooks, however, scholarly communications infrastructure is currently poorly positioned to both display, interact with, and archive that content. The next-generation of interactive and executable research content in scientific publishing requires comprehensive strategies, guidelines, and frameworks to ensure long-term preservation of the scientific record.
This working group will cover and work towards:
- An ecosystem scan of computational and interactive publishing practices with an assessment of the current challenges for preservation and archiving.
- A framework for ensuring graceful degradation of interactive content and computational notebooks, for example, identifying functionality guarantees over time and associated tradeoffs.
- Checklists for preservation and archiving of computational articles from the lens of: (1) authors when creating content; (2) systems for hosting and distributing (publishing infrastructure & indexing/discovery); (3) standards.
- Case studies that model the space of possible archiving and preservation workflows.
During this process, the plans may be updated based on feedback from the activities.
- Sam Teplitzky (co-chair), Open Science Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Rowan Cockett (co-chair), Cofounder and CEO, Curvenote
- Catherine Jones, UKERC Energy Data Centre Lead at STFC
- Roly Perera, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
- Virginia Scarlett, Open Source Programs Specialist, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Manuela Pallotto Strickland, Metadata and Digital Preservation Coordinator, King's College London
- Kirstie Whitaker, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC Berkeley
Monthly virtual core group meetings were generally held at 09:00 Pacific / Noon Eastern / 16:00 UTC / 17:00 BST on 3rd Tuesdays from April through October 2025.
General meetings TBD, planned to begin in early 2026
Zoom information: TBD
TBD but may be organized to coincide with Force11 meetings.
(subject to change)
- January - March 2025: Launch. Recruit interested members and form core working group.
- March 2025 - September 2025: Agree on scope, create literature scan.
- June 2025 - September 2025: Description of graceful degradation framework and creation of visualizations.
- 2026: Guest Speakers
- 2026: Case Studies
- 2026: Evaluation and Finalizing outcomes
2025, October. Preserving Interactive Research Content: Challenges, Frameworks, and Best Practices. https://force11.github.io/pircwg/graceful-degradation/
2025, October 16. Preserving Interactive Research Content: Challenges, Frameworks, and Best Practices. Lightning talk at Cracking Open: Open Science Unconference, Carnegie Mellon University. https://ucberk.li/pirc-gd
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