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

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

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

Nano-publicationin Science & Medicine

Jan Velterop – EUA Autumn Conference – Gießen – 9 October 2009

Current knowledge transfer

Current knowledge transfer

Signal to noise ratio?

Current knowledge transfer – an analogy: needle transport

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

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

problemEvery has its solution

problemEvery has itssolution

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

from Term

to Concept

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‘cancer’

The relations between the corners:

1. Object evokes Concept (in writer’s or speaker’s mind)2. Writer/speaker uses Token to refer to Object3. Token evokes Concept (in reader‘s or listener's mind)4. Reader/listener refers Token back to Object

The Ogden Triangle

Term (token) Object

Concept

‘cancer’Malignant NeoplasmsKrebskrankheitC0-265Etc.

Terms – representing concepts

CAPN3_00265

CAPN3:c.62G>A

CAPN3:p.(Gly21Glu)

dbSNP:rs28364364

C0000053

LGMD2A

nCL-1

Calpain p94

Calcium-activated neutral proteinase 3

CANP 3

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Terms – representing concepts

Terms are language-dependent

Concepts are language-independent

from Concept

to Statement

ConceptConceptConcept

ConceptConceptConcept

Introducing Triples

Statements are Concept ‘Triples’

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has pathogenicity

interacts with

has GO annotation

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LGMD2A

SNT3

proteosome endopeptidase activity

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Dystrophin

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Concept ‘Triples’ are language independent

Annotating

Statements

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

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

Such annotated statements

are

Such annotated statements

are

Nano-publications

What must a publication be?

What must a publication be?

Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes

What must a publication be?

Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes

Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes

What must a publication be?

Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes

Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes

Conveying knowledge? – yes

What must a publication be?

Citeable and giving appropriate credit? – yes

Valuable to scientific progress and understanding? – yes

Conveying knowledge? – yes

Full-length? – no

Triples Open Access

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<reference><is><open access><reference><may be><cited><citation><benefits><author><citation><benefits><publisher>

open access triples benefit

authors and publishers, including traditional publishers

Triples Languages

Triples Open Access

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open access triples benefit

authors and publishers, including traditional publishers

Triples Languages

Triples Open Access

Triples Languages

International Reach

De-PDF repository content(or at least add XML or HTML versions)

Convert literature to nano-publicationsit 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) contentsimply because semantic concept methodologies are most advanced in that area

What’s to be done?

Contact me:

velterop@conceptweballiance.org