2026-06-09, 16:00–17:00 (UTC+02:00)
Agenda:
  • Yuanxi Fu: “Nanopublication for Documenting Scholarly Growth” - Many contemporary scholarly big-data infrastructures focus on the public-facing dimensions of scholarship, such as publications, funding records, citations, and institutional affiliations. In contrast, this talk explores how nanopublications might provide an infrastructure for documenting a scholar’s intellectual growth over time.
  • Christian Meesters: “Software Provenance with Snakemake” - Why workflow managers are essential on HPC and how Snakemake automates reproducibility. Live demo: running a workflow, generating an HTML report with publication-ready figures, and exporting software metadata as a nanopublication, plus a mini visual knowledge graph via a single plugin.
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@Tobias actually, we already did start an introductory slide set. See the first link.
@Daniel I opened a GitHub issue regarding missing licensing information when using the nanopub python library. (see first link)
@Daniel Yes, Snakemake can containerize entire workflows (the linked docs only speak of dockerization, but Apptainer is supported too - since the last hackathon). Container are, in turn, one of three ways to provide software (Conda, HPC module files and Apptainer).
Also great talk by Christian Meesters on how to use nanopublications for computational workflow descriptions, and on plans to spread the word and get more people involved via tutorials.
We could make the tutorial slide creation, as mentioned by Christian, a community effort.
Note to self: I should make a "question view" so we can allow participants to write questions for speakers while they speak, so they can be answered during the discussion or after the event.
@Christian - when embedding things like the abstracts of papers into nanopublications, how to keep track of the copyright of the components of the nanopub?
@Christian - I have a dataset with information about the reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks. In what ways can Snakemake assist in publishing this as nanopublications?
@Christian - can I include containers into a Snakemaker workflow, or can Snakemake workflows be usefully containerized?
I have been using personal principles that guide my knowledge-related professional and volunteering activities. I would like to convert these into some nanopublication-based structure, ideally in a way that would make it simpler to find people or other entities with aligned values.