Knowledge Pixels is a tech start-up with the mission to revolutionize global knowledge sharing. Knowledge Pixels The Knowledge Pixels Incubator is where new use cases around nanopublications can start and grow. Knowledge Pixels Incubator This is lecture 9 of the Knowledge Organization course at VU Amsterdam on 30 September 2025. 2025-09-30T17:15:00+02:00 2025-09-30T15:30:00+02:00 Lecture 9 of Knowledge Organization: Knowledge Modeling <p>Global, federated graph of scientific claims as LinkedData</p> <p>Scientific knowledge is currently scattered across papers, repositories, and disconnected platforms, with no structured way to trace how claims connect to evidence or how arguments develop. Nanoarguments builds a framework and tools for creating, browsing, and contributing to a global, federated graph of scientific discourse and evidence. Researchers and their communities can collaboratively structure claims, evidence chains, and discussion as nanopublications, which are small, cryptographically signed Linked Data snippets with precise provenance and authorship, published to a decentralized peer-to-peer network. The project builds upon the Nanodash interface to help users browse, edit, and aggregate discourse and evidence graphs, and integrates with dokieli to enable in-context authoring of nanopublications as inline annotations while reading or writing a document. A bidirectional ActivityPub connector bridges the nanopublication network and the fediverse, allowing discourse threads to start as social exchanges and crystallize into persistent, machine-readable evidence records. The project will be piloted with early adopter research groups in discourse and evidence modeling. All components will be released as open-source modules that other systems can build upon.</p> 2026-04-09T00:00:00.0+02:00 Nanoarguments The group maintaining Nanodash. Nanodash This is an ontology with general terms in the context of the nanopublication ecosystem. General Nanopub Ecosystem Ontology <span>Check out this <a href="https://swissstartupassociation.ch/2026/04/09/meet-tobias-kuhn-founder-ceo-of-knowledge-pixels/">interview of Tobias Kuhn</a> by the Swiss Startup Association. "Build around a grand vision. Paradigm shifts take time."</span> 2026-05-18 Interview We are very proud and honored that we ended up on 3rd place at the Startup Pitch competition of this year's Knowledge Graph Conference, out of nearly 100 submissions. 😊 2026-05-07 3rd place at KGC startup pitch competition <span>We are very happy and proud to announce that we are among the five finalists of the <a href="https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/startup-pitch/">Startup Pitch competition of the Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC) 2026</a>, selected from nearly 100 submissions.</span> 2026-04-30 KGC startup pitch finalist <span>We are extending our incubator #4 <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator4">"FAIRification of mass spectrometry workflows using FDOs"</a> by three more months to have more time to work on its promising developments.</span> 2026-04-28 Incubator #4 extended <span>We are excited to share that our poster "Nanopublications for FAIR and AI-Ready Data: Building a Decentralized Knowledge Commons" has been accepted at this year's <a href="https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/call-for-posters/">Knowledge Graph Conference</a>.<span> 2026-04-18 KGC Poster Track We released nanopub-elements: a Web Components library to display query results and individual nanopubs easily on any webpage. See more: <a href="https://github.com/nanopublication/nanopub-elements">https://github.com/nanopublication/nanopub-elements</a> 2026-04-17 nanopub-elements v0.1.0 is out! We're excited to announce the successful completion of our first incubator project, "FAIR Vocabularies for Chemical Risk Assessment." Working closely with Gertjan Bisschop, we explored how nanopublications can support community-driven vocabularies for chemical risk assessment, and expanded our platform with new features for consuming and publishing ontologies and vocabularies along the way. This is just the beginning of a collaboration we're looking forward to growing further. 2026-04-14 Incubator project #1 concluded <p>We are really happy to announce that our proposal <a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/Nanoarguments/">Nanoarguments</a> has been accepted as NLnet project. We are looking forward working on this, and will share more details shortly.</p> 2026-04-10 Nanoarguments accepted as NLnet project <p>We attended the <a href="https://swissstartupassociation.ch/founders-day-2026/">Founders Day 2026</p> of the Swiss Startup Association yesterday, and it was great to connect to other startups, investors, and other actors of the startup world. Knowledge Pixels sparked interest at many places.</p> 2026-04-10 Founders Day <span>We are excited to announce that we are launching our fifth incubator project, <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator5">A community-driven linked knowledge base for plant specialized metabolism</a>, led by Elena Del Pup.</span> 2026-03-31 Incubator project #5 <span> We are back from a great FDO Conference, where we presented our approach to use nanopublications for cross-implementation FAIR Digital Objects (see our <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11NSdx7CrWQzA-IjSTsddRfzHKrT_zfgZC0xVs_f_YCk/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>) and demonstrated nanopublications and Nanodash in general. There was a lot of interest in this from many different sides, and we are looking forward to follow up. </span> 2026-03-30 FDO Conference <span>We are very happy to announce that Nanodash (<a href="https://nanodash.knowledgepixels.com/">https://nanodash.knowledgepixels.com/</a> and the others) is now mobile-friendy. So consuming and producing your daily nanopublications on your phone is now much easier. 😊</span> 2026-03-16 Nanodash is now mobile friendly <span>Our Knowledge Pixels Incubator project #3 by Margreet Bloemers on <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator3">"Integrating DCAT-compliant nanopublications and EHDS-metadata"</a> needs a bit more time too, so we are extending it by 3 more months. Stay tuned for updates from this project!</span> 2026-02-25 Incubator #3 extended We have just published a Nanodash demo video, which goes through the main goals and features of Nanodash in 3 minutes. Check it out. 2026-02-10 Nanodash demo video <span>We attended the <a href="https://swissonto.ch/scao/">Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO).</a> It was a great opportunity to engage with the applied ontology community, exchange ideas, and discuss Nanopublications and decentralized knowledge infrastructures.</span> 2026-02-06 Knowledge Pixels at SCAO We have started using our own technology for the news we share on our website. Each news item is shared as its own nanopublication. And this is just the start! :) 2026-02-02 Our news are now nanopublications! The Knowledge Pixels team had its first full in-person meeting this week. It was really good to discuss and brainstorm in the same room for a change. And we are now ready for the next chapters of Knowledge Pixels! 😊 2026-01-30 Knowledge Pixels team in-person meeting <span>We are extending our <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html">incubator projects #1 and #2</a> by three months each, to have more time to continue with their promising developments.</span> 2026-01-30 Incubators #1 and #2 extended Released <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nanopub/nanopub-js">nanopub-js</a>: a JavaScript library for creating, publishing, signing, and querying Nanopublications. 2026-01-16 nanopub-js v0.1.0 is out! <p>We are happy to announce that we are part of three papers that have been accepted for presentation at the <a href="https://fairdo.org/fdo-conference-2026/">3rd FAIR Digital Objects Conference</a>. So we are looking forward to presenting our work in Vienna in March!</p> 2025-12-18 Papers at FDO Conference <p>Interested in nanopublications and how they could be useful to you? If so, come join the <a href="https://w3id.org/spaces/fenac">Fearless Early Nanopub Adopter Club</a>!</p> 2025-12-17 Join the Fearless Early Nanopub Adopter Club We are happy to announce that the final report for the FDO Connect project (a.k.a. FAIR Data Publisher) is now <a href="https://mission-ki.de/en/final-report-on-the-fair-data-publisher-a-foundation-for-interoperable-data-spaces-in-europe">available</a>. 2025-12-12 Final FDO Connect report <p><a href="https://www.p-322.com/en/posts/20251211-outside-the-dataset-within-the-community-enrichments-as-nanopublications/">This blog post</a> by Gertjan Filarski explains how nanopublications (via Knowledge Pixels technology) can be used to annotate objects in colonial collections in a semantic and decentralized fashion.</p> 2025-12-11 Blog post on nanopublications for Colonial Collections <span id="w3c-authentic-web-dokieli" prefix="cito: http://purl.org/spar/cito/ dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ schema: http://schema.org/" rel="cito:discusses" resource="#w3c-authentic-web-dokieli" typeof="schema:Event"><span datatype="rdf:HTML" property="schema:description">The <a href="https://dokie.li/" rel="schema:workFeatured">dokieli</a> project was <a href="https://csarven.ca/presentations/dokieli-authentic-web" rel="bibo:presents" typeof="bibo:Slideshow">presented</a> (<a href="https://github.com/w3c/authentic-web-workshop/blob/main/minutes/2025-12-09AuthWeb.md" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">minutes and recording</a>) by <a href="https://virginiabalseiro.com/#me" rel="schema:performer">Virginia Balseiro</a> and <a href="https://csarven.ca/#i" rel="schema:performer">Sarven Capadisli</a> at the <a href="https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/f10ec76d-5894-49d0-892c-4cb6f8036a64/" rel="schema:url">Authentic Web</a> workshop, part of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/credibility/" rel="schema:superEvent">Credible Web Community Group</a>, at <a href="https://www.w3.org/" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">W3C</a> on <time content="2025-12-09T15:00:00Z" datatype="xsd:dateTime" datetime="2025-12-09T15:00:00Z" property="schema:startDate" title="2025-12-09T15:00:00Z">December 9, 2025</time>.</span></span> 2025-12-11 Authentic Web Workshop - dokieli <span>Neverblink shared insights at the <a href="https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/semic-conference">SEMIC Conference</a>, demonstrating how their Jelly-RDF protocol can reduce Nanopublication network transfer times from hours to mere seconds, significantly improving the network's scalability.</span> 2025-12-02 Nanopublications at SEMIC 2025 We successfully concluded the <a href="https://fdo-connect.gitlab.io/" target="_blank">FDO Connect project</a> with a final meeting in Göttingen, Germany. We will soon be able to share the final project reports. 2025-11-03 FDO Connect concluded We have launched our fourth incubator project: <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator4">FAIRification of mass spectrometry workflows using FDOs</a> 2025-10-29 Incubator #4 launched Check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.neverblink.eu/projects/nanopublication">this post by our partner NeverBlink</a> on how we boosted performance of the nanopublication network 2025-09-25 NeverBlink post We are excited to announce that the <a target="_blank" href="https://sciencelive4all.org/">Science Live</a> project is building upon our nanopublication infrastructure and expertise 2025-09-15 Science Live project Our tech stack was featured at <a target="blank" href="https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/">SEMANTICS-2025</a> in the talk <a target="_blank" href="https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/sessions?page=1Gky0kL8jprx4mEtdDGmiFwHzUz6eLkEo">"Tackling inter-service RDF communication bottlenecks in the Nanopublication network with Jelly"</a> (<a target="_blank" href="https://ostrzyciel.eu/assets/pdf/2025/slides_semantics_industry.pdf">slides</a>; best industry track talk nomination!), thanks to Piotr Sowiński and Karolina Bogacka 2025-09-08 Talk at SEMANTICS <p>Our third incubator project has started: <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator3">Integrating DCAT-compliant nanopublications and EHDS-metadata </a></p> 2025-08-26 Incubator #3 launched <p>We are happy and honored to welcome <a target="_blank" href="https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/soiland-reyes">Stian Soiland-Reyes</a> (Manchester University) on our advisory board</p> 2025-08-15 New advisory board member <p>We have our second incubator project: <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator2">nanopublication-Enhanced Open Science Communication (nEOSC)</a></p> 2025-08-08 Incubator #2 launched <p>Our first incubator project has started: <a href="https://knowledgepixels.com/incubator.html#incubator1">FAIR Vocabularies for Chemical Risk Assessment</a></p> 2025-07-15 Incubator #1 launched Nanodash’s live views are essential in our project to make research tasks such as systematic reviews dynamic and traceable. With its nanopublication technology and Nanodash platform, Knowledge Pixels fills a critical gap in providing a coherent, user-friendly environment for communities to collaboratively build and maintain shared vocabularies, seamlessly connecting them to the broader knowledge landscape We are happy to read your messages here 😊