  The Micropublications semantic model for scientific claims, evidence,
argumentation and annotation in biomedical publications, is a metadata model of
scientific argumentation, designed to support several key requirements for
exchange and value-addition of semantic metadata across the biomedical
publications ecosystem.
  Micropublications allow formalizing the argument structure of scientific
publications so that (a) their internal structure is semantically clear and
computable; (b) citation networks can be easily constructed across large
corpora; (c) statements can be formalized in multiple useful abstraction
models; (d) statements in one work may cite statements in another,
individually; (e) support, similarity and challenge of assertions can be
modelled across corpora; (f) scientific assertions, particularly in review
articles, may be transitively closed to supporting evidence and methods.
  The model supports natural language statements; data; methods and materials
specifications; discussion and commentary; as well as challenge and
disagreement. A detailed analysis of nine use cases is provided, along with an
implementation in OWL 2 and SWRL, with several example instantiations in RDF.
