Pensoft have recently introduced “nanopubs”, small structured publications that can be thought of as containing the minimum possible statement that could be published. Nanopubs are promoted as FAIR, that is findable, accessible, interoperabile, and reusable. I like the idea of nanopubs, but the examples I have seen so far are problematic.

Two ongoing challenges in biodiversity informatics are getting data into a form that is usable, and linking that data across different projects platforms. A recent and interesting approach to this problem are "data journals" as exemplified by the Biodiversity Data Journal. I've been exploring some data from this journal that has been aggregated by GBIf and EOL, and have come across a few issues.