2nd edition WOOC

Workshop
on Open Citations and
Open Scholarly Metadata
2020

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Bologna, Italy
9-10 Sep 2020
2-day workshop | 60 participants

The 2nd Workshop
on Open Citations
and Open Scholarly Metadata
2020

A 2-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and improvement, of open citation data and open scholarly metadata.

4 Sessions

Topics

Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata to support Digital Cultural Heritage

Improving Research Assessment using Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata

Open Abstracts and Open Scholarly Metadata

Sustainability of Open Scholarly Metadata Infrastructures

more to come

Speakers

Vanessa Proudman

SPARC Europe, Director

Liam Wyatt

WikiCite, PM

Stefano Zacchiroli

Software Heritage, CTO

Catherine Stilher OBE

Open Knowledge Foundation, CEO

Organizers

David Shotton

University of Oxford

OpenCitations

Silvio Peroni

University of Bologna

OpenCitations

Marilena Daquino

University of Bologna

OpenCitations

Ludo Waltman

Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University

VOSViewer

Philipp Mayr

GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

EXCite

Giovanni Colavizza

University of Amsterdam

ScholarIndex

Matteo Romanello

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

ScholarIndex

research centre on scholarly metadata unibo
opencitations
dharc unibo
scholar index
excite
ficlit unibo
dharc unibo
travel information

Welcome
to Bologna!

The University of Bologna is the oldest university in the western world, and one of the largest universities in Italy (with about 90,000 enrolled students).

Get to Bologna

The airport “Guglielmo Marconi” is located at 15-20 minutes by car from the city centre. Getting to the centre by taxi costs about 15-20€ (to book a taxi in advance call 0039 051 372727). Marconi express trains (fare 8,70EUR), and BLQ direct bus (fare 6EUR) leave regularly from the Airport for Bologna Central Rail Station.

The venue

The workshop will take place at the University of Bologna in the heart of the city, in via Zamboni 34, Room "Aula Affreschi" . From the train station you can either walk (20') or take bus C (direction "Cestello").

Accommodation

The organizers are negotiating with local hotels for rooms to be reserved and made available at special rates for participants.

About the location

Bologna is home to numerous prestigious cultural, economic and political institutions as well as one of the most impressive trade fair districts in Europe. In 2000 it was declared European capital of culture, and in 2006, a UNESCO "city of music".