Knowledge Asset
A Knowledge Asset is a unit of structured knowledge published to the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph with its own identifier, ownership, and provenance. It makes a piece of information discoverable and verifiable by other parties and agents, without placing it under the control of a single vendor.
Anatomy
A Knowledge Asset combines the data or claim itself, machine-readable structure so other systems can interpret it, provenance describing where it came from, and cryptographic proofs that let a third party confirm it has not changed since publication.
Why ownership matters
Information published into a vendor platform is governed by that vendor. A Knowledge Asset has an owner in the protocol sense, which means the organization that created the knowledge keeps control of it and can move providers without losing the record.
Relationship to decision traces
When nOS enshrines a decision trace, it publishes it as a Knowledge Asset. That is what makes the trace verifiable by outside parties rather than being an entry in an internal table.
In practice
A pharmaceutical sponsor publishes a Knowledge Asset asserting that a batch met a release specification. The asset carries an identifier, the sponsor as owner, the structure that lets a partner system interpret it, and proofs that it has not changed since publication. The underlying batch records never leave the sponsor; the partner can still verify the claim.
Common questions about knowledge asset.
Does publishing a Knowledge Asset make my data public?
Who can create Knowledge Assets?
What happens if we stop using nOS?
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