Figure 3 from: Conte M, Flynn AJ, Barrison P, Boisvert P, Landis-Lewis Z, Friedman C (2023) Digital objects to make computable biomedical knowledge FAIR: an infrastructural approach to knowledge representation, dissemination and implementation. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: e109307. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e109307

Figure 3 This figure illustrates the dual nature of Knowledge Objects: knowledge-as-resource and knowledge-as-service. A KO can be curated and maintained in a repository, pass metadata to a knowledge graph or deployed into applications. Different to other digital objects, the methods to deploy the KO to applications via custom or generic runtimes called by microservices are built into the KO.