Silvio Peroni
Associate Professor
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolSilvio Peroni is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna with 13 years of experience at the intersection of Semantic Web technologies, scholarly communication and bibliographic data engineering. He co-leads OpenCitations and is a principal developer of the SPAR Ontologies, shaping how bibliographic entities are modelled and exchanged as open, machine-actionable data. His research blends ontology engineering, markup for complex documents and empirical studies of citation behavior, and has resulted in high-impact publications and a Springer volume on semantic publishing. Beyond academia, he helped found the Initiative for Open Citations and Open Abstracts, turning research into infrastructure that powerfully advances transparency in scholarly metadata. Known for combining rigorous ontology design with practical tools and visualisation work, he also applies semantic methods to niche domains like fashion design to manage temporal and contextual bibliographic constraints.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaLiceo Scientifico "Tommaso Parentucelli" - Sarzana, ItalyThe Seventh Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic WebComputer Science Ontology Engineering, Computer Science Ontology Engineering at Summer Course on Computational Ontologies
English
Github Skills (85)
owl10
ontologies10
readable10
human-readable10
subset10
reproducible-science9
corpus9
markup-language9
datacite9
digital-humanities9
semantic-web9
markup9
rdf9
science8
uri8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-sci/2021-2022
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
opencitations/api
Apr 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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