[2] Since data accessions can describe contributions that can vastly exceed research articles in size and quality, quantum attribution or precise citation might be better terms.
A paper on microattribution and nanopublication as means to incentivize the placement of human genome variation data into the public domain was published in June 2012.
[6] Barend Mons and Jan Velterop proposed nanopublications for single, attributable and machine-readable assertions in scientific literature.
[7] From the technical viewpoint, a nanopublication is a Resource Description Framework (RDF) graph built around an assertion represented as a triple (subject-predicate-object) and usually extracted, manually or automatically, from a scientific publication.
The RDF representation format enables interoperability and thus the re-use of data, whereas provenance and publication information eases authorship recognition, credit distribution, and citation.