Visualizing a Nanopublication while writing it, and a request for feedback

[Anatoly Scherbakov]

Hi! I would like to propose the following, and I would be very interested in hearing everyone's thoughts and feedback.

Context. While writing a nanopublication, user normally relies upon URIs to denote things the nanopublication is about: that's the nature of Linked Data.

It is desirable for the URIs to lead somewhere and to make sense so that the nanopublication is woven into the fabric of human knowledge.

Problem. However, the user has to manually confirm that the URIs they use indeed resolve to a valid Linked Data resource.

Proposed solution. Iolanta, a visualization tool, could help with that. It pulls information from the Web following the URIs and tries to render whatever is fetched in a human-readable way (albeit only in the terminal for the time being).

I have written a tutorial on precisely how to do that: https://iolanta.tech/howto/nanopublish/ — and would be happy to hear your thoughts.

(I also hijacked it to present the ability to write nanopublications in YAML-LD, which is an emerging specification by the W3C JSON-LD Working Group, — would like comments on that too.)

Thanks,

Anatoly