![\"\"](\"/assets/images/nanopub1.png\")
Linkrot is real and\ndigital preservation problematic. One reason why I have\nstarted migrating my blog\nto a more robust platform. That first step gave me version control. This summer my blog was\naccepted to Rogue Scholar.\nThat gave me DOIs. And an idea.
\n\nThings are coming together, and while commercial publishers (SpringerNature, Elsevier, MDPI, Frontiers, etc)\nare focused on profit (“shareholder value”) instead of the community they serve, Open Science is providing\nworking, real-world, inexpensive, superior FAIR solutions for scientific dissemination. Maybe European\nuniversities are not convinced yet (see Björn’s post), but it is\nhappening.
\n\nTwo things that are happening are OpenAlex and OpenCitations.\nCiTO adoption not so much yet, but I am not giving up\nyet. Simply because Open Science doesn’t go away and everything can be picked up tomorrow. Each holiday\nI am picking up the Citation Typing Ontology and this holiday the\nuse of nanopublications for CiTO intent annotation\nof April this year.
\n\nYesterday, I played with the nanopublication templates used by NanoDash, got to the triples of it, and\nended up using the web interface to create a derived template\nfrom Tobias’ template from April.\nWhat makes this nanopublication template special is that it uses the CiTO ontology.
\n\nThe difference is that the original template used ScholarlyWork as type for the citing resource,\nwhile the derivative uses CreativeWork from the schema.org namespace, allowing things like this:
The last three are possible because of the Rogue Scholar DOIs. Let’s continue with the fourth example,\nthe blog to blog citation. While an URL is a unique, global identifier, the digital preservation depends\non a lot of things. On the other hand, a DOI with the associated metadata is easier to preserve. For example,\nbecause it can be spread more easily than the digital object itself.
\n\nSo, when Martin Fenner and\nI\nstarted\narchiving\nthe Depth-First blog of Rich Apodaca to digitally preserve his blog, \nit also automatically gave the blog posts DOIs. This makes the blog more FAIR, just like it does\nfor my blog. And being more FAIR, we can use the DOIs for other things too, like blog to blog\ncitations with CiTO intent annotation, as nanopublications.\n(Technically, any Springer Nature journal can do this, but they found reasons to not do it.)
\n\nSo, let’s take this blog post.\nI have today updated this to not use depth-first.com URLs but, following Martin’s example, use the DOIs \nfor those posts instead.
And when I make a nanopublication out of this, I can add the citation intent, and then it looks like\nthis:
\n\n
For some reason, the DOIs do not show up as references as they do for this post for the DOIs of the\nposts of Martin Paul Eve, Björn Brembs, and Martin Fenner. It does for\nthis post citing Depth-First.
\n\nSo, from now on, I will use DOIs when citing other blog posts, and I hope many other blogs will\nstart using Rogue Scholar or some other service to generate DOIs for single blog posts.\nI also have to figure out if I want to use DOIs to link to posts in my own blog.\nAnd hopefully, OpenCitations will soon accept citations provided by nanopublications.\nWith or without CiTO intent annotations, whatever comes first. Oh, and I cannot wait to see\nthe citations who up in Altmetric.com :)
\n\nLet’s see where this is going.
\n\n