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Silvio Peroni holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna. He is an expert in document markup and semantic descriptions of bibliographic entities using Semantic Web technologies. He joined OpenCitations as co-director in 2015 as co-director and technical manager, introducing new technologies to improve the initial infrastructure. Non-singing minstrel while he sleeps (i.e. during his spare time). Fruit lover, particularly when served as a red juice made from fermented grapes in an appropriate (and, sometimes, even inappropriate) glass. Fascinated by paradoxes – indeed, this sentence is false.

Chiara Di Giambattista graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna with a thesis about UX Design semiotics in Digital Art. She is deeply passionate about the adaptive potential of language in all its forms, and has an extensive experience in web journalism and copywriting. She joined OpenCitations in 2021 to help with the dissemination and promotion of OpenCitations’ activities to the scholarly community. Outside of work, she enjoys hosting board game nights at her house, cooking for her friends, and going out for live stand-up comedy shows.

After a degree in Philosophy, a training course in librarianship and a diploma in archivistics, palaeography and diplomatics at the State Archive of Bologna school, he worked for many years as a university librarian. He is now the research manager for OpenCitations, for which he follows the financial and administrative side. Outside the office, he likes to cook, drink chilled white wine while listening to 80s music, and read books on any topic (except sports).

Ivan Heibi is a researcher at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna. His work mainly concerns the use of Semantic Web technologies in the analysis of the bibliographic entities and the academic publishing behaviours/dynamics. He joined OpenCitations in 2017, to work on the development of OpenCitations’ technical infrastructure. Ivan’s diverse interests and hobbies encompass delving into political and philosophical topics through reading, immersing himself in various artistic mediums, particularly photography, and maintaining an active and consistent sports life.

Arcangelo Massari holds a master's degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. He deals with Semantic Web technologies, focusing on bibliographic data and provenance management. He joined OpenCitations in 2021, to work on the publication OpenCitations Meta, a semantic database of scholarly metadata (released in December 2022). Since October 2022, Arcangelo has been pursuing a PhD in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem at the University of Bologna, with the aim of creating tailor-made interfaces for curating metadata of museums, archives and libraries. In his free time, Arcangelo finds joy in exploring psychology and tickling the ivories of a piano.

Arianna has a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology, Religions, and Oriental Civilizations and a master's degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, specializing in Computational Thinking and Open Science. She has been working at OpenCitations as a thesis student first, then as a research fellow, and, since March 2023, she is a PhD student in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem. In particular, she deals with software development for the ingestion of citation and bibliographic data and metadata, validation of persistent identifiers, and workflows for metadata crosswalks between different file formats and data models. In her spare time, she enjoys roller-skating, cross-stitching, and sewing (but she mainly repairs the damages caused by her kittens).

Elia Rizzetto was born in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 1996. After completing the classical high school diploma, he enrolled in the faculty of Humanities at the University of Bologna, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 2019. In 2023, still at the University of Bologna, he earned his master's degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, with a thesis on Programming and Data Structures focusing on the validation of citation data and bibliographic metadata. Since May 2023, he has been working as a research fellow at OpenCitations. He likes to think of himself as the opposite of a tech bro, but he has still tried to learn rock climbing. Lately, he is trying to learn Modern Greek and experiment with microprocessors.