FAQ: Who can create nanopublications?
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created: 2026-07-16T11:40:38Z
creator: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Who can create nanopublications?
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has content: Anyone can create nanopublications. Technically, only a user identifier and an RSA key pair are needed. In practice, when using a tool like Nanodash, you don't have to deal with keys yourself — it generates and manages them on your behalf, and you simply sign in. Nanodash currently requires an ORCID, while the nanopublication format itself accepts any persistent user identifier; using ORCID is strongly recommended in any case, as it makes attribution interoperable across the scholarly ecosystem. If you publish locally (for example via the nanopub command-line tools), you do need to generate and manage your own key pair.

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