nanopub-java: A Java Library for Nanopublications

TL;DR

The paper introduces nanopub-java, the first official Java library for creating, publishing, and validating nanopublications, including experimental features like decentralized publishing and digital signatures.

Contribution

It provides the first official implementation of nanopublications in Java, supporting stable core features and experimental extensions for broader use and validation.

Findings

First official Java library for nanopublications

Supports decentralized server publishing and digital signatures

Accessible via online validator interface

Abstract

The concept of nanopublications was first proposed about six years ago, but it lacked openly available implementations. The library presented here is the first one that has become an official implementation of the nanopublication community. Its core features are stable, but it also contains unofficial and experimental extensions: for publishing to a decentralized server network, for defining sets of nanopublications with indexes, for informal assertions, and for digitally signing nanopublications. Most of the features of the library can also be accessed via an online validator interface.