Exploring nanopublishing with COEUS
Pedro Henrique de Meneses Bittencourt Lopes, Pedro Sernadela, José Luís Oliveira · 2014
A nanopublication represents the smallest unit of publishable information. This new schema (http://nanopub.org/nschema) enhances attribution and ownership of specific data elements. With these guidelines for relating atomic data with its authors, accessing and exchanging knowledge becomes a more efficient process. Nanopublications are particularly relevant in the scientific domain, where scientific publication, validation and ownership of data are essential. The COEUS semantic web application framework - http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/coeus/ - delivers, in a single package, all the tools required to rapidly build a new knowledge bases from scratch, including multiple data integration algorithms and interoperability services. This work introduces the combination of COEUS’ flexible integration and interoperability features with the nanopublications standard. This results in a unique nanopublishing pipeline, where collections of annotated data can be modeled and integrated, stored in a semantic knowledge base, and published through COEUS API. These improvements to the COEUS framework greatly benefit the scientific community, where publishing nanopublication datasets is still a cumbersome endeavor.