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What is a Nanopublication?

Nanopublications are "the smallest unit of publishable information: an assertion about anything that can be uniquely identified and attributed to its author".
The nanopublication model was introduced to overcome the increasing difficulties to retrieve, exchange and connect scientific results with the underlying data, due to the ever-growing amount of scientific papers and datasets. Moreover, a nanopublication is a publication itself carrying all the information to be understood and re-used by humans and individual atomic statements - i.e., assertions - represented as RDF triples. A nanopublication comprehends all the information related to a single assertion and it is structured into three main named graphs:

  • the assertion graph containing the info related to the scientific statement central to the nanopublication;
  • the provenance graph containing information about the origin and creation process of the assertion;
  • the publication info graph including the metadata about the creation and publishing of the nanopublication.


These three named graphs are connected one to the other by means of an additional named graph called the head graph.
The main goals of the nanopublication model are to promote interoperability among scientific results, to promote data integration and trustworthiness, to ease the access to a scientific statement and to enable the citation of atomic statements allowing for fine-grained citation metrics on the level of individual claims.

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Citation

Nanopublications can be considered as publication theirself and are said to be "citable", thus we provide a system to automatically generate citation text-snippet to be included in the reference lists. Our system to generate citation snippet guarantee identification and access to the cited resource and provide both human- and machine-readable citation, thus it follows the data citation principles defined by CODATA-ICSTI. With our system you can get the text-snippet of a nanopublication, browse its information and get a machine-readable format of the citation metadata extracted from the nanopublication (Download metadata description).

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What We Provide

Text Snippet for a Single Nanopublication

Automatic creation of citation text snippets and landing pages for a single nanopublication.

Text Snippet for a Set of Nanopublication

Automatic creation of citation text snippets and landing pages for a set of nanopublications.

REST API

Rest API documentation.