Official Nanopublications project guidelines document a record format; November 4, 2026 is an update only, with no original publication date established. An assertion is what someone states, such as a researcher’s reported count. Publishing the record means making a small package of that statement and its descriptions available. The guidelines separate assertion provenance—how the statement arose—from publication information about the whole package. Illustratively, an editor creates a record of another researcher’s count: assertion provenance can identify that researcher and source, while publication information identifies the record’s creator and creation time. The creator can differ from the researcher, and that time need not date the research. This attribution structure does not verify that the count is correct.