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Nanopublications are looking really interesting to me, I hope for you too :slightly_smiling_face: : <https://archive.org/details/kuhn-metagov-20240320>
<https://knowledgepixels.com/slides/metagov-nanopubs/>
<https://nanopub.net/>

Yes, this is an interesting development. Its main weakness so far is the scarcity of nanopublications, which is caused by the need to create them manually, a rather unpleasant for humans. There is ongoing research on using LLMs to derive nanopublications from papers, but the obvious risk there is getting them wrong.
I think the best future for nanopublications would be authors provide them along with papers. But I have no idea what would actually convince authors to do so.

Let me add though that many concrete ideas from this presentation look rather dubious to me. For example "publish first - worry about quality later", with the "webs of trust". Upfront trust doesn't work for complex subject. Even the most careful scientists make mistakes. You can never say "I trust author X". Trust can only be derived from expert judgement on a precise statement.