LUMEN Voices: University of Bologna – Silvio Peroni
In this series, we share short interviews to introduce you to the diverse partners contributing to our LUMEN vision. Each month, we’ll shine a spotlight on our partners—offering a glimpse into who they are, what they do, and what drives their work within LUMEN. In this edition, Silvio Peroni answered our questions
- Can you briefly introduce your organisation and its role within the LUMEN project?
The University of Bologna is an Italian public university. The researchers involved in LUMEN are experts in developing ontologies and other semantic artefacts (WP2) to manage, integrate and query bibliographic information and cultural heritage objects, and in infrastructures for bibliometrics (WP6).
- What is the most exciting aspect of your contribution to LUMEN, and how does it align with your organisation’s mission or values?
Putting our prior research efforts in semantic artefact development, documentation and versioning at the service of the project to build a tool for supporting every step of the semantic artefact lifecycle, from its creation to its publication, maintenance and reuse, and to enable reusing OpenCitations’ data for developing LUMEN metric services.
- LUMEN is all about interdisciplinary collaboration. How do you envision the project transforming the way research is conducted?
LUMEN involves several researchers with heterogeneous skills and expertise from various scientific fields, spanning from the Humanities and Social Sciences to STEM disciplines, to create an ecosystem to enable data exchange between disciplines and support interdisciplinary teams in adopting the best solutions for their specific data challenges.
- Looking ahead to 2027 and beyond, what impact do you hope the LUMEN project will have on the broader research community and beyond?
Making more accessible the practice of creating FAIR-compliant multidisciplinary data based on appropriate and shared semantic artefacts developed following robust guidelines and workflows to maximise semantic interoperability across systems and domains.
