Talk on 'nano-publication' held at EUA conference in Giessen, Germany

1. The purpose of open access is to ensure that
scientific knowledge can be used and built-
upon by anyone

2. Open access is a means to a goal – not a goal
in itself

3. What if we could freely get to all the essential
knowledge contained in scientific articles,
without those articles necessarily being open
access?

4. Nano-publication
in Science & Medicine
Jan Velterop – EUA Autumn Conference – Gießen – 9 October 2009

5. Current knowledge
transfer

6. Current knowledge
transfer
Signal to noise
ratio?

8. Current knowledge transfer – an analogy: needle transport

9. Shouldn’t we focus on the ‘needles’
and learn how to reason with the
essence of available knowledge?

10. If we did, we could have:
– access to far more knowledge than now
– access to knowledge in our own language
irrespective of the language it was first
written in

11. Every problem has its solution

12. Every solution has its problem

13. What is needed?
What do we have to do?
What do we still have to overcome?

14. from Term
to Concept

15. 42

16. The Ogden Triangle
Concept
The relations between the corners:
1. Object evokes Concept (in writer’s or speaker’s mind)
2. Writer/speaker uses Token to refer to Object
3. Token evokes Concept (in reader‘s or listener's mind)
4. Reader/listener refers Token back to Object
‘cancer’
Term (token) Object
‘cancer’
Malignant Neoplasms
Krebskrankheit
C0-265
Etc.

17. Terms – representing concepts

18. Terms – representing concepts
CAPN3_00265 LGMD2A Jan Velterop
CAPN3:c.62G>A nCL-1 Johannes Velterop
CAPN3:p.(Gly21Glu) Calpain p94 JJM Velterop
dbSNP:rs28364364 Calcium-activated J Velterop
neutral proteinase 3
C0000053 CANP 3

19. Terms are language-dependent
Concepts are language-independent

20. from Concept
to Statement

22. Concept
Concept
Concept

23. Introducing Triples
Concept
Concept
Concept

24. Statements are Concept ‘Triples’
Jan Velterop presented these slides
CAPN3_00265 has pathogenicity LGMD2A
Dystrophin interacts with SNT3
Calpain-3 has GO annotation proteosome
endopeptidase
activity

25. Concept ‘Triples’ are language independent
Jan Velterop presented these slides
Johannes Velterop vertoonde deze dia’s
JJM Velterop zeigte diese Transparantien
J Velterop présentait cettes diapositives

26. Annotating
Statements

28. Statements are only taken seriously when they
can show all, or most, of these attributes:

29. Statements are only taken seriously when they
can show all, or most, of these attributes:
authorship
context
strength of concept relation
provenance
condition
directionality
time stamp
comments

30. Such annotated statements
are

31. Such annotated statements
are
Nano-publications

32. What must a publication be?

33. What must a publication be?
Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes

34. What must a publication be?
Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes
Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes

35. What must a publication be?
Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes
Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes
Conveying knowledge? – yes

36. What must a publication be?
Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes
Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes
Conveying knowledge? – yes
Full-length? – no

37. Triples Open Access
<triple><is><reference>
open access triples benefit
<reference><is><open access>
authors and publishers,
<reference><may be><cited>
including traditional
<citation><benefits><author>
publishers
<citation><benefits><publisher>
Triples Languages

38. Triples Open Access
<triple><is><reference>
open access triples benefit
<reference><is><open access>
authors and publishers,
<reference><may be><cited>
including traditional
<citation><benefits><author>
publishers
<citation><benefits><publisher>
Triples Languages

39. Triples Open Access
International Reach
Triples Languages

40. What’s to be done?
De-PDF repository content
(or at least add XML or HTML versions)
Convert literature to nano-publications
it is cheap – current estimate ≈ ¢’s per kilo-character (≈ 1 typical research journal
page)
Share nano-publications (in an open triple store)
Start with biomedical (life science) content
simply because semantic concept methodologies are most advanced in that area

41. Contact me:
velterop@conceptweballiance.org