Author Archives: Chiara Di Giambattista

The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Want to keep yourself updated about the ongoing activities of OpenCitations? We have now publicly released the OpenCitations Roadmap, available on Trello.com: https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations The OpenCitations Roadmap consists of a board fulfilled with colour-labelled cards which present the goals so far … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and EC funding: OpenAIRE Nexus and RISIS2

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The incentives for new OpenCitations innovative solutions Two years ago, in their canonical 2020 QSS paper on OpenCitations, Silvio Peroni and David Shotton anticipated the creation of the new database, OpenCitations Meta, able to “offer a faster and richer service” … Continue reading →

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Five reasons why 2021 has been a great year for OpenCitations

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

2021 is just behind us. Since January is “the Monday of the months”, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote[1], it’s a good time to take stock of what happened at OpenCitations during the past year. Among the numerous events, achievements … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations receives the Open Publishing Award in Open Data

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“What role does ‘open’ play in making this project special?” This apparently easy, but not banal, question was asked in the Open Publishing Awards nomination form, and at OpenCitations we prefaced our answer to it by stating “For OpenCitations, ‘open’ … Continue reading →

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Performing live time-traversal queries on RDF datasets

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Guest post by Arcangelo Massari, University of Bologna In this post, Arcangelo Massari, who recently graduated in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge under Professor Silvio Peroni at the University of Bologna, shares the results of his master thesis. A particular … Continue reading →

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Open Access Tage 2021: valuable insights from the libraries in the German-speaking region 

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

On September 27, OpenCitations’ director Silvio Peroni, together with Niels Stern (DOAB/OAPEN) and James MacGregor (PKP), held the online workshop “How Open Infrastructure Benefits Libraries” during the Open Access Tage 2021. Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days) are the annual central platform for the steadily growing Open Access and … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations October events 

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

With the numerous September events in which the OpenCitations’ directors have recently been involved behind us, it is now time to announce the participation of our director Silvio Peroni in two October events.  On Wednesday 6th, Silvio will take part … Continue reading →

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About engagement and evanescence: OpenCitations at the Open Science Fair 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Community, governance, and shared goals: these are the key concepts that you would have heard discussed, had you listened in on September 21 at the Open Science Fair 2021 to the sessions entitled “ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations as the new frontier … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations’ September events 

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

We are happy to announce OpenCitations’ participation in a number of online conferences and events during the next few weeks. Our directors Silvio Peroni and David Shotton will be speaking at the Open Science Fair 2021, the OASPA Conference 2021 … Continue reading →

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California Digital Library invests in OpenCitations

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

OpenCitations is excited to announce that the California Digital Library (CDL) has joined our growing list of contributors. CDL’s commitment to sustainable open scholarship has great value for the global scholarly community.  Through its investments and partnerships, CDL aims to … Continue reading →

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