rows { options { physical_type: PHYSICAL_STREAM_TYPE_QUADS max_name_table_size: 128 max_prefix_table_size: 16 max_datatype_table_size: 16 logical_type: LOGICAL_STREAM_TYPE_DATASETS version: 2 } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/np/" } } rows { name { value: "RApd9UJAVgQ1CH_mfXrEZW0dZdE3WYgIWCocQFuz6fWGw" } } rows { namespace { name: "this" value { prefix_id: 1 } } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/np/RApd9UJAVgQ1CH_mfXrEZW0dZdE3WYgIWCocQFuz6fWGw/" } } rows { name { } } rows { namespace { name: "sub" value { prefix_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://schema.org/" } } rows { namespace { name: "schema" value { prefix_id: 3 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/kpxl/gen/terms/" } } rows { namespace { name: "gen" value { prefix_id: 4 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#" } } rows { namespace { name: "np" value { prefix_id: 5 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://purl.org/dc/terms/" } } rows { namespace { name: "dct" value { prefix_id: 6 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/" } } rows { namespace { name: "nt" value { prefix_id: 7 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://purl.org/nanopub/x/" } } rows { namespace { name: "npx" value { prefix_id: 8 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" } } rows { namespace { name: "xsd" value { prefix_id: 9 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" } } rows { namespace { name: "rdfs" value { prefix_id: 10 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "https://orcid.org/" } } rows { namespace { name: "orcid" value { prefix_id: 11 name_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#" } } rows { namespace { name: "prov" value { prefix_id: 12 name_id: 2 } } } rows { name { value: "hasAssertion" } } rows { name { value: "assertion" } } rows { name { value: "Head" } } rows { quad { s_iri { prefix_id: 1 name_id: 1 } p_iri { prefix_id: 5 name_id: 3 } o_iri { prefix_id: 2 } g_iri { } } } rows { name { value: "hasProvenance" } } rows { name { value: "provenance" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 5 } o_iri { prefix_id: 2 } } } rows { name { value: "hasPublicationInfo" } } rows { name { value: "pubinfo" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 5 } o_iri { prefix_id: 2 } } } rows { prefix { value: "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" } } rows { name { value: "type" } } rows { name { value: "Nanopublication" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 13 } o_iri { prefix_id: 5 } } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/np/RAkHLDTcili5dYS_r_4d171c-bYfYESPsujK7KNWx6lPs/" } } rows { name { value: "faq-entry" } } rows { name { value: "isPartOf" } } rows { prefix { value: "https://w3id.org/spaces/nanopub/r/" } } rows { name { value: "faq" } } rows { quad { s_iri { prefix_id: 14 } p_iri { prefix_id: 6 } o_iri { prefix_id: 15 } g_iri { prefix_id: 2 name_id: 4 } } } rows { name { value: "Question" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 13 name_id: 10 } o_iri { prefix_id: 3 name_id: 15 } } } rows { name { value: "label" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 10 } o_literal { lex: "What was the first nanopublication?" } } } rows { name { value: "hasContent" } } rows { quad { p_iri { prefix_id: 4 } o_literal { lex: "
The concept of nanopublications was introduced by Barend Mons and Jan Velterop in 2009, in their paper Nano-Publication in the e-science era. The paper proposed atomic, machine-readable assertions with their own provenance and metadata as a new unit of scholarly communication.
\n\nConcrete nanopublications followed in subsequent years, most of them unsigned, accumulating in the first-generation nanopub-server network. The earliest dated trusty-URI nanopublications discoverable there are from 16 June 2014, part of a corpus of unsigned biomedical assertions extracted from NCBI\'s GeneRIF database by the Krauthammer Lab at Yale \342\200\224 for example, RAdBeVv56ZiRgSdbHMEk0J4C3iV5mDNBSlwo87B5P-u9c. The earliest signed entry preserved in the current (second-generation) Nanopub Registry dates from 18 August 2015: RATNbqwXNo6aO3T7BdCquQSdqZjXeisoSSTudO3qJ9KwY, an index of three example nanopubs produced while validating the signing infrastructure.