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computer-readable and interoperable format is easily demonstrated. This
added value alone should encourage publishers to offer their full text for
nanopublication extraction.
For the OPS project to succeed and more importantly become sustainable
into the future, it will be critical to engage the widest possible community of
researchers, data, and infrastructure providers worldwide. Engagement of this
kind will ensure that the benefi ts are maximized for the general community;
obviously, adoption of the OPS by a wide, global community is directly cor-
related with its long-term sustainability.

26.8 CONCLUSION

The Semantic Web approach can deliver an in-text semantic support system,
a database of scientifi c assertions capable of supporting massive reasoning,
and innovative community annotation tools. The information from a host of
experiments such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, pharmacokinetics,
and pharmacodynamics as well as peer-reviewed literature spanning diverse
disciplines can be made available in small packets resembling a microblogging
service, thereby transforming how people fi nd and make use of data on a daily
basis. With appropriate recognition and traceability of the assertions via the
nanopublication scheme, this will enable an entirely different way of scholarly
communication, much more adapted to the current rate of data production.
The OPS is one of the fi rst realizations of this potential.

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