- Posted by Tobias Kuhn
- March 5, 2013
- 2 Comments
Abstract:
Scientific contributions should be permanent and immutable, as accidential or deliberate modification or deletion of previously published results can undermine the whole system. For example, if a scientist is citing a particular result as supporting evidence, he or she wants to be sure that the cited facts are not changed afterwards. For that reason, I propose that entities such as nanopublications should be identified by URIs that contain a cryptographic hash value that can be used to verify the integrity and original state of the resource.
Comments
Posted by Tobias Kuhn | January 23, 2014
Preprint article available
This approach is described in an article that is now available as a preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5775
Cheers,
Tobias
Posted by Tobias Kuhn | March 10, 2014
Hash-URIs are now called "Trusty URIs"
http://www.force11.org/node/5035