Activities

This page lists various activities I am doing and have done in the past, according to the following categories:

• institutional roles
• journals
• conferences
• workshops
• summer schools
• teaching duties

Institutional roles

• Director, OpenCitations, from 2015
• Director, Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2019
• Member of the Advisory Board, DBLP, from 2019
• Member of the Advisory Board, Qeios, from 2019
• Member of 'Giunta', Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2019
• Delegate for Open Access, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2021
• Member of the EOSC Task Force on Semantic Interoperability, EOSC Association (on behalf of University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), from 2021 to 2024
• Member of the Research Committee, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2022
• Member of the Working Group on Policy Recommendations, Informatics Europe (on behalf of GRIN - Associazione Italiana dei Docenti Universitari di Informatica), from 2022
• Member of the Working Group on Open Science, Informatics Europe, from 2022
• Director of the Second Cycle Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2022
• ACM Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery, from 2022
• Member of Research Committee, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2022
• Member of the Open Science Working Group (GLOS), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, from 2023

Journals

• Editorial Board member, Journal of Documentation, ISSN: 0022-0418
• Editorial Board member, PeerJ Computer Science, ISSN: 2376-5992
• Editorial Board member, Data Science, ISSN: 2451-8484
• Editorial Board member (Associate Editor), Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics, ISSN: 2504-0537
• Editorial Board member (Subject Editor), Research Ideas and Outcomes, ISSN: 2367–7163
• Guest Editor, “Scholarly Data Analysis (Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation)” Special Issue, of Data Science, ISSN: 2451-8484
• Guest Editor, “Semantic Web for the Legal Domain” Special Issue, of Semantic Web, ISSN: 1570-0844
• Guest Editor, “SAVE-SD 2015 Collection” Special Issue, PeerJ Computer Science, ISSN: 2376-5992

Conferences

• Organising Committee (Research and Innovation Chair), 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2023)
• Programme Committee member (Artifact Evaluation track), 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)
• Programme Committee member, 19th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2023)
• Programme Committee member (Research & Practitioner Full Papers track), 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)
• Programme Committee member (Ph.D. Symposium), 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2022)
• Programme Committee member, 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2021)
• Programme Committee member (Reproducibility Track), 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
• Programme Committee member (Resource Track), 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019)
• Programme Committee member (Research Track), 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2019)
• Programme Committee member, The Web Conference 2019
• Programme Committee member, 15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2019)
• Programme Committee member (Research Track, Resource Track), 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018)
• Organising Committee (Open conference data Chair) and Programme Committee member (Research Track, Resource Track, Workshops and Tutorials), 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018)
• Programme Committee member, The Web Conference 2018
• Programme Committee member (Research Track, Resource Track), 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
• Programme Committee member, 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2017)
• Organising Committee (Metadata Chair) and Programme Committee member (Research Track, Resource Track, Poster and Demo Track), 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)
• Organising Committee (Local Chair, Sponsorship Chair) and Programme Committee member, 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016)
• Programme Committee member, 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2016)
• Programme Committee member, 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016)
• Programme Committee member, 28th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2015)
• Programme Committee member, 1st International Akoma Ntoso Conference (IANC 2015)
• Programme Committee member (Research Track, In-Use and Software Track, Data Sets and Ontologies Track), 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)
• Programme Committee member, 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2015)
• Chair of the “Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies” Research Track, 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2015)
• Programme Committee member, 3rd Conference of the Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD 2014)
• Programme Committee member, 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014)
• Programme Committee member, 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2014)
• Programme Committee member (Research Track), 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014)
• Organising Committee (Publicity Chair) and Programme Committee member, 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014)
• Programme Committee member, Second International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments (WEB 2014)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013)
• Programme Committee member, 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)
• Programme Committee member, 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (i-Semantics 2013)
• Programme Committee member, First International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments (WEB 2013)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012)
• Programme Committee member, 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (i-Semantics 2012)
• Programme Committee member of the Web Technologies track, 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011)

Workshops

• Organiser, First Workshop on Bibliographic Data Analysis and Processing (BiblioDAP 2021)
• Organiser, Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC 2020)
• Programme Committee member, 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2019)
• Programme Committee member, 1st International Workshop on Open data and Ontologies for Cultural Heritage (ODOCH 2019)
• Programme Committee member, 2nd International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SemSci 2018)
• Organiser, Workshop on Open Citations 2018 (WOOC 2018)
• Chair, 2018 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Dissemination (SAVE-SD 2018)
• Programme Committee member, 2018 International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA 2017)
• Programme Committee member, 2nd International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge (SciKnow 2017)
• Programme Committee member, 2nd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WhiSe 2017)
• Programme Committee member, 2017 International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA 2017)
• Chair, 2017 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2017)
• Programme Committee member, 1st Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WhiSe 2016)
• Programme Committee member, 2016 International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA 2016)
• Chair, 2016 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016)
• Programme Committee member, 6th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity Legal Systems (AICOL 2015)
• Programme Committee member, 12th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2015)
• Programme Committee member, 2015 International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA 2015)
• Proceeding Chair, 1st International Workshop on LINKed Education (LINKED 2015)
• Chair, 2015 International Workshop on Legal Domain And Semantic Web Applications (LeDA-SWAn 2015)
• Chair, 2015 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015)
• Chair, 2014 International Workshop on Semantic Web for the Law (SW4Law 2014)
• Programme Committee member, International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Knowledge Engineering and Linked Data Analytics (VISUAL 2014)
• Programme Committee member, 2014 Workshop on Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE 2014)
• Programme Committee member, 2013 Workshop on Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE 2013)

Summer Schools

• Lecturer, 2017 Summer School on LEX
• Lecturer, 2nd Italian Summer School on Open Data for the Territory: Culture, Tourism, Environment (CULTA 2017)
• Lecturer, 2016 Summer School on LEX
• Support Team Member, 12th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2016)
• Lecturer, 2015 Summer School on LEX
• Lecturer, 1st Italian Summer School on Open Data for the Territory: Culture, Tourism, Environment (CULTA 2015)
• Support Team Member, 11th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2015)
• Lecturer, 2014 Summer School on LEX

Teaching duties

• Computational Thinking and Programming, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, University of Bologna, academic year (since) 2017/2018
• Data Science, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, University of Bologna, academic year (since) 2021/2022
• Open Science, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, University of Bologna, academic year (since) 2020/2021
• Basic Informatics, Bachelor's Degree in Humanities, University of Bologna, academic year (since) 2018/2019
• Digital Humanities, Master in Traditional and Digital Publishing, University of Bologna, academic year 2017/2018, 2019/2020, 2021/2022
• Semantic Web, Bachelor's Degree in Digital Communication Design, IAAD - the Italian University for Design, academic year 2019/2020
• Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering, LAST-JD Ph.D. Programme, University of Bologna, academic year 2013/2014, 2015/2016, 2019/2020
• Open Science e Open Access nelle Scienze (Umane e non solo), Seminar for the Ph.D. Programme in Literary and Philological Cultures, University of Bologna, academic year 2018/2019
• Semantic Web and Knowledge Management, Master in Design and Technology for Fashion Communication, University of Bologna, academic year 2017/2018, 2018/2019
• Web scraping with Python, Ph.D. Programme and Post-doctoral Researcher Programme, European University Institute, academic year 2014/2015
• PDF scraping with Python, Ph.D. Programme in Economics, University of Bologna, academic year 2014/2015
• Web scraping with Python, Ph.D. Programme in Economics, University of Bologna, academic year 2014/2015