A nanopublication is a small knowledge graph snippet with metadata that is treated as an independent (scientific) publication. Nanopublications are expressed in a knowledge graph format that is formal and machine-interpretable. Nanopublications have the following general structure: 1)Assertion: The assertion is the main content of a nanopublication in the form of an small atomic unit of information. 2) Provenance: This part describes how the assertion above came to be. This can include the scientific methods that were used to generate the assertion, for example a reference to the kind of study that was performed and its parameters.
Publication 3) Info: This part contains metadata about the nanopublication as a whole, such as when and by whom it was created and the license terms for its reuse.
Nanopublications are implemented in the language RDF and come with an evolving ecosystem of tools and systems. They can be published to a decentralized server network, for example, and then queried, accessed, reused, and linked. We used nanopublications to represent FAIR Supporting Resources.