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DeSciNodes_Nanopublication_Presentation.pdf

SBT Paper

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The Content Addressable Stack [See IPFS Docs](#/code/c347ea87-c237-4c4c-9d70-468b0bbf509b?path=docs/README.md) and Blockchain allow academia to view PIDs as containers surrounding a granularly addressable collection of CIDs. Through IPFS, content can be immutable and resolvable through standardized communication protocols (A1). Through DAGs and Blockchain, the containers surrounding these CID collections to be versionable in a trustworthy manner.


**FAIR Criteria:**


**Openness:** As a default, data and resources should be made as open as possible, as restricted as necessary.


**Distributed:** Distributed architectures are the default, and should be centralized only as necessary


**No Vendor Lock-in:** Aim for technological redundancy (no single points of failure) and avoid supplier/provider lock-in whenever possible.


DAGs can be viewed as the equivalent of a file system in the content addressable stack. As a machine traverses the DAG, it can be programmed to automatically collect metadata along the way. Metadata inheritance over collections of CIDs can drastically decrease the size and storage requirements of metadata in the FAIR ecosystem by avoiding duplication and only requiring complete metadata to be aggregated and served as required.


Thanks to the versionability of CID containers, all leaves in the DAG can be created and/or retrofitted with domain specific, machine actionable metadata. 


IPFS and Content Addressable Storage act as a means of eliminating social contracts in persistence


PIDs as APIs allow researchers to programmatically send nano-publications directly to a PID and add them to the associated DAG. Nanopublications would be incredibly useful as annotations on datasets, assertions on papers, and more. 


The main place where nodes uses atomic units of knowledge is through attestations. Websites like [EASscan.org](EASscan.org) are examples of the SBT Paper in practice


Assertions about a research project are likely going to have a role to play in the future of FAIR publishing. Community plugin interfaces are on the roadmap for development on the Nodes application. 


Nano Sessions Presentation