FAIRsharing record for: Nanopublication Schema

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Nanopublication schema provides a community-driven approach to representing structured data along with its provenance as small self-contained and citable entities. A nanopublication consists of an assertion, the provenance of the assertion (simply called "provenance"), and the provenance of the whole nanopublication (called "publication info"). Nanopublications are implemented and aligned with Semantic Web technologies, such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. The different levels of provenance enable users to assess the trustworthiness of data and provides a mechanism by which authors and institutions may be acknowledged for their contribution to the global knowledge graph. Nanopublications may be used to expose quantitative and qualitative data, as well as hypotheses, claims, negative results, and opinions that usually go unpublished. With nanopublications, it is possible to disseminate individual data as independent publications with or without an accompanying research article.