Setup instructions
📥️ Install the nanopub library
Install using pip:
🐍 Setup for users new to python
We recommend using anaconda to install python and manage python dependencies
👤 Setup your profile
To publish to the nanopub server you need to setup your profile (note that you can use fetch and search functionality without a profile). This allows the nanopub server to identify you.
To check if your profile is properly set, run the following command in your terminal:
To setup your profile, run the following interactive command:
This will setup the following:
Stored profile
A local version of the profile will be stored in the nanopub user config dir (by default HOMEDIR/.nanopub/profile.yml)
RSA keys
It will add and store RSA keys to sign your nanopublications. By default they are stored under HOMEDIR/.nanopub/id_rsa and HOMEDIR/.nanopub/id_rsa.pub.
ORCID iD
This includes your ORCID iD (i.e. https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000).
If you don’t have an ORCID iD yet, you need to register. We use the ORCID iD to automatically add as author to the provenance of any nanopublication you will publish using this library.
Introductory nanopublication
We encourage you to make use of np setup’s option to publish your profile to the nanopub servers. This links your ORCID iD to your RSA key, thereby making all your publications linkable to you. Here is an example introductory nanopublicaiton. The link to this nanopublication is also stored in your profile.
☑️ Check your profile
You can check the profile currently used by default by running this command in your terminal: