About NNPBA nanopublication is the smallest unit of publishable information: an assertion about anything that can be uniquely identified and attributed to its author. Individual nanopublications can be cited by others and tracked for their impact on the community. Nanopublications are a natural response to the explosion of high-quality contextual information that overwhelms the capacity of conventional research articles in scholarly communication.With nanopublications, it is possible to disseminate individual data as independent publications with or without an accompanying research article. Furthermore, because nanopublications can be attributed and cited, they provide incentives for researchers to make their data available in standard formats that drive data accessibility and interoperability. A nanopublication has three basic elements (aka named graphs) [documented as goals in this StratML rendition]nanopub.orgNNPB_795c631c-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea00Concept Web AllianceNanopublication infrastructure is administered by the Concept Web Alliance, and are based on open standards. We anticipate the community-driven evolution of nanopublication formats to fit the changing needs of authors and publishers.AuthorsPublishersNanopublications can be cited and their impact can be tracked_795c6452-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea00To enable dissemination of individual data as independent publications_795c64de-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea00InteroperabilityNanopublications can be serialized using existing ontologies and RDF, allowing nanopublications to be machine readable and opening the door to universal interoperability.ScaleIn turn, this allows extremely large, heterogeneous and decentralized data to be analyzed for the discovery of new associations that would otherwise be beyond the capacity of human reasoning.HeterogeneityDecentralizationAnalysisReasoningAssertionExpress a relationship between two concepts._795c656a-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea001The Assertion: An assertion is a minimal unit of thought, expressing a relationship between two concepts (called the Subject and the Object) using a third concept (called the Predicate).SubjectName the subject of the relationship._795c65ec-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea001.1ObjectName the object of the relationship._795c670e-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea001.2PredicateName the relationship between the Subject and the Object._795c67a4-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea001.3ProvenanceDocument the origin of the assertion._795c6826-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002The Provenance: This is metadata providing some context about the assertion. Provenance means, ‘how this came to be’ and includes the methods that were used to generate the assertion and attribution metadata such as authors, institutions, time-stamps, grants, links to DOIs, URLs about the assertion.MethodsName and describe the methods were used to generate the assertion._795c68a8-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.1AuthorsName the authors of the assertion._795c6970-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.2InstitutionsName the institutions vouching for the assertion. _795c6a06-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.3Time StampsTime stamp the assertion._795c6a88-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.4GrantsIdentify the methods used to authenticate the assertion._795c6b1e-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.5DOIsProvide links to DOIs._795c6baa-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.6URLsProvide URLs about the assertion._795c6c36-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea002.7PublicationDocument additional information about the nanopublication._795c6ccc-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea003The Publication Information: This is metadata about the nanopublication as a whole, and pertains to both the assertion and provenance. Similar to the provenance graph, the Publication Information contains “citation-like” metadata but pertains to the nanopublication and not just the assertion.CitationsProvide “citation-like” metadata about the nanopublication._795c6d58-4ac4-11ea-a1b9-b0bc2683ea003.12020-02-08http://nanopub.org/wordpress/?page_id=65OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net