Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data
Abstract
Nanopublications are a Linked Data format for scholarly data publishing that has received considerable uptake in the last few years. In contrast to the common Linked Data publishing practice, nanopublications work at the granular level of atomic information snippets and provide a consistent container format to attach provenance and metadata at this atomic level. While the nanopublications format is domain-independent, the datasets that have become available in this format are mostly from Life Science domains, including data about diseases, genes, proteins, drugs, biological pathways, and biotic interactions. More than 10 million such nanopublications have been published, which now form a valuable resource for studies on the domain level of the given Life Science domains as well as on the more technical levels of provenance modeling and heterogeneous Linked Data. We provide here an overview of this combined nanopublication dataset, show the results of some overarching analyses, and describe how it can be accessed and queried.
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@article{arxiv.1809.06532,
title = {Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data},
author = {Tobias Kuhn and Albert Meroño-Peñuela and Alexander Malic and Jorrit H. Poelen and Allen H. Hurlbert and Emilio Centeno Ortiz and Laura I. Furlong and Núria Queralt-Rosinach and Christine Chichester and Juan M. Banda and Egon Willighagen and Friederike Ehrhart and Chris Evelo and Tareq B. Malas and Michel Dumontier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06532},
year = {2018}
}