Silvio Peroni
University of Bologna
Silvio Peroni is Director of OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net/). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna. He is one of the main developers of the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing, http://www.sparontologies.net/) Ontologies, and founding member of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC, https://i4oc.org/) and the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA, https://i4oa.org/). He is Project Coordinator of the H2020 project "SPICE – Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement" and he is Local Unit Coordinator of the H2020 project "H2020 OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users". He is part of the Advisory Board of DBLP and Qeios. Among his 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. His 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.