# Claim Attestations {% hint style="warning" %} To claim an attestation, your Node needs to be published. If you have not published yet and need guidance on this, head to the [Publish](/create-and-publish/publish.md) section first. Attestations are post-publication attributions to the quality of your work, that are provided and supported by the global community. If you want your work to be curated by a community, and as such claim their attestation badges, see [Submit for Curation](/create-and-publish/submit-for-curation.md). Find more on attestations here: [Validate and Curate](/community/community-curation.md) {% endhint %} ## Attestation Claims If your Node has particular high-value characteristics, such as [FAIR data](/technical-background/fair-data.md), novel impact, proving and building on the work of others in a FAIR way, etc. check out the variety of attestations present on Nodes that are applicable to your work. You can make a claim to them, or others can indicate they believe your work has these characteristics. I ## Community validation [Communities](/create-and-publish/interact-and-reuse/communities.md) choose a personalised set of attestations that verify qualities they find important. Submit your Node to a community when you believe your Node qualifies for ALL of their attestations. Community members will verify whether the claims are true, and can comment on your Node. A video of the process with examples is given below: {% embed url="" %} Communities and community attestations {% endembed %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.desci.com/create-and-publish/create-a-node/add-information/claim-attestations.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.