Nanopublication beyond the Sciences
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Digital Libraries, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- nanopublication, periodization, scholarly communication, time, Linked Data, JSON-LD
- Copyright
- © 2015 Golden et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Nanopublication beyond the Sciences. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1284v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1284v1
Abstract
The information expressed in humanistic datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication”, which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal representations of humanistic data and its discursive basis. In this paper we describe nanopublication, its potential applicability to the humanities, and our experience curating humanities nanopublications in the PeriodO period gazetteer.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.