I hold a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, where I teach 'Basic Informatics', 'Computational Management of Data' and 'Open Science'.
I am an expert in document markup and semantic descriptions of bibliographic entities using OWL ontologies. I am Director of the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata, one of the main developers of the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies, Director of OpenCitations, and founding member of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and the Initiative for Open Abstract (I4OA).
I am Principal Investigator of Spoke 4 of the Project CHANGES: Cultural Heritage Active Innovation For Next-Gen Sustainable Society and Local Unit (UNIBO) Coordinator of the Horizon Europe projects Linked User-driven Multidisciplinary Exploration Network (LUMEN), Knowledge Graphs, AI Services and Next Generation Instrumentation for Research and Development in Social Sciences and Humanities (GRAPHIA), and GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science. Also, I was Project Coordinator of the H2020 project SPICE – Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement and Local Unit (UNIBO) Coordinator of the H2020 project OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users.
I am an Editorial Board member of Journal of Documentation (Emerald) [https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0022-0418], (IOS Press) [https://datasciencehub.net/] e (PeerJ) [https://peerj.com/computer-science/], Data Science (IOS Press), PeerJ Computer Science (PeerJ), Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics (Frontiers), e Research Ideas and Outcomes (Pensoft), and I am a member of the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc), part of the Advisory Board of DBLP and Qeios, and member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD).
Among my research interests are Semantic Web technologies, markup languages for complex documents, design patterns for digital documents and ontology modelling, and automatic processes of analysis and segmentation of documents. My works concern theoretical studies and technical implementation of tools to foster semantic interoperability of Open Science services and infrastructures, the empirical analysis of the nature of scholarly citations, bibliometrics and scientometrics studies, visualisation and browsing interfaces for semantic data, and the development of ontologies to manage, integrate and query bibliographic information and cultural heritage data.
I am the UNIBO representative for the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (DORI) and member of several international working groups including the CoARA Working Group Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA) and the RDA Working Group Scientific Knowledge Graphs Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF).
