https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/Head https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasAssertion https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/assertion https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasProvenance https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/provenance https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasPublicationInfo https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/pubinfo https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#Nanopublication https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/assertion http://id.crossref.org/issn/2367-7163 http://purl.org/dc/terms/title Research Ideas and Outcomes https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/dc/terms/abstract Beginning in 1995, early Internet pioneers proposed Digital Objects as encapsulations of data and metadata made accessible through persistent identifier resolution services. In recent years, this Digital Object Architecture has been extended to include the FAIR Guiding Principles, resulting in the concept of a FAIR Digital Object (FDO), a minimal, uniform container making any digital resource machine-actionable. Beginning in 2009, nanopublications were independently conceived as a minimal, uniform container making individual semantic assertions and their associated provenance metadata, machine-actionable. These two technologies share the same vision of a data infrastructure, and act as instances of Machine-Actionable Containers (MACs) that make use of minimal uniform standards to enable FAIR operations. Here, we compare the structure and computational behaviors of the existing nanopublication infrastructure, to those in the proposed FAIR Digital Object Framework. Although developed independently there are clear parallels between the vision and the approach of nanopublication and FDOF. We find a remarkable congruence between the currently proposed FDO requirements and the existing nanopublication infrastructure, including several FDO-like qualities already embodied in the nanopublication ecosystem. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/dc/terms/date 2022-10-12 https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf http://id.crossref.org/issn/2367-7163 https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/dc/terms/title The Comparative Anatomy of Nanopublications and FAIR Digital Objects https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/authorList https://w3id.org/np/RA4c57BIY99eHu-WTrS7v3WFBoWkP9f-j2jAuV_dp0uoE/author-list https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/volume 8 https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94150 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://purl.org/spar/fabio/Article https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-9218 http://schema.org/affiliation https://ror.org/03kqpb082 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