Knowledge Pixels Incubator

What we are looking for

We are looking for individuals interested in:

Making the first steps of applying the nanopublication ecosystem to their use case
Exploring ways to obtain funding to implement their use case through co-creation with Knowledge Pixels

What you get

As part of the incubator program you will receive:

Supervision and guidance
Weekly office hours with our developers
Prioritized feature requests
Materials to help you pitch your use case
Visibility of your use case via our website, Nanodash, and other channels

FAQ

Do I need to be a programmer to apply?

You don't need to be a programmer, but you should be comfortable of doing technical work, such as defining templates in Nanodash and formally modeling knowledge

Can I apply as a group or as an organization?

We ask you to apply as individual. You can have others helping you and your organization be named and involved, but we need a single contact point as applicant and throughout the project. Update: We are now also accepting duo projects, with two individuals applying.

How long do incubator projects run?

Incubator projects have a default life span of six months, but they can terminate early and extensions are possible too

Do you have a question that is not listed here?

We are happy to answer further questions via info@knowledgepixels.com

How to apply

To apply, send a short paragraph describing your use case, motivation, organization (if applicable), and potential funding opportunities to info@knowledgepixels.com.

#1: FAIR Vocabularies for Chemical Risk Assessment

by Gertjan Bisschop, VITO

As part of the PARC (Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals) consortium, we are developing a FAIR data platform that will help assess the health impact of chemicals. A crucial component of this platform is the management of vocabularies. Since the platform is intended to support ongoing and evolving research from institutes across Europe, we consider dynamic, community-driven vocabulary management to be essential. We believe that nanopublications offer a strong foundation for achieving this goal. Our initial focus will be on the vocabularies associated with the Personal Exposure and Health domain, with the aim of extending this approach to other domains within PARC, encouraging the reuse of the workflows and pipelines we develop.

#2: nanopublication-Enhanced Open Science Communication (nEOSC)

by Daniel Mietchen, FIZ Karlsruhe

This project uses nanopublications to enhance the sharing of scientific information in a machine-readable fashion and around the research cycle. It tackles practical needs like formally acknowledging contributors, pointing out issues such as broken DOIs, and documenting the state of dynamically changing resources.

#3: Integrating DCAT-compliant nanopublications and EHDS-metadata

by Margreet Bloemers, ZonMw

In this incubator project, we will develop an approach for an integrated analysis of metadata collected with two different, DCAT-AP compliant metadata systems: (1) nanopublication templates of the FAIR Funding Framework (FFF) and (2) the metadata scheme that forms the basis for the National Health Metadata Catalogue (under development in the Netherlands) with metadata on datasets that are available for secondary use. The National Catalogue is a mandatory implementation for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) in each EU-member state. The FFF provides a uniform approach for funders and research organisations aiming to collect reusable (FAIR) information for tracking research outputs and funder activities, using nanopublication-based metadata on components of the (1) funder’s grant procedures, (2) research lifecycles, and (3) tools and services used in research domains. The project aims to deliver a scalable approach for creating rich, machine-actionable information on projects, datasets and other outputs. The approach must facilitate dataset-related metadata to get exposed on the EHDS-National Catalogue. This information can be supplemented with project-related information from FFF nanopublications.