OpenCitations Governance
OpenCitations is managed by the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata at the University of Bologna.
Its governance consists of the following organizational bodies:
- Director
- Council
- International Advisory Board
- Management Team
1. OpenCitations Directors
OpenCitations is presently directed by Prof. Silvio Peroni.
The Director has ultimate responsibility for the purpose, development, operation, and financial management of OpenCitations.
2. The Council
The OpenCitations Council comprises one delegate appointed by each OpenCitations Member.
Each delegate has the mandate to speak on behalf of his/her Party, and should have sufficient expertise to participate in informed discussion and to vote on Council proposals.
The Council meets regularly once a year, either face-to-face or online, with one of the Directors as chair.
3. The International Advisory Board
The International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is a committee of the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata at the University of Bologna. The purpose of the Board is to guide the future developments of OpenCitations in terms of its policies, strategies and activities, to build the OpenCitations collaborations, membership and support community, and to ensure its financial sustainability.
The Board assists the OpenCitations Directors in their role.
The Board comprises:
Marcel R. Ackermann (Team Lead of dblp Computer Science Bibliography)
Maria Gould (Product Director at DataCite and Director of ROR)
Maria Gould (Product Director at DataCite and Director of ROR)
Philippe Mongeon (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Science at University of Montreal)
Cameron Neylon (Professor of Research Communications, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University)
Iratxe Puebla (Director of Make Data Count) [chair]
Dominika Tkaczyk (Director of Data Science at CrossRef)
Didier Torny (on behalf of the French Open Science Committee)
Ludo Waltman (Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and Deputy Director, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University)
OpenCitations development working groups
To guide the non-technical development of OpenCitations, members of the OpenCitations International Advisory Board are serving in two working groups that are meeting several times over the coming year and will report their recommendations back to the Director and the Advisory Board.
The Community Building Working Group is addressing the following issues:
- Which OC stakeholders are not presently being involved in OpenCitations, and what can we do in terms of outreach to improve that situation?
- How can the OC activities and membership models better include and reflect diverse stakeholder groups?
- How can we promote partnerships and initiate community data provision and curation of OpenCitations data?
- How can we best involve the community to increase its financial support of OpenCitations, to enable us to realise our ambitious plans to expand our activities?
The Governance Evolution Working Group will address the further issues:
- What is the future role of the University of Bologna in OpenCitations?
- Clarification of the present representation of stakeholders in OpenCitation governance bodies and their actual power.
- How can we involve our stakeholder community more fully in the governance of OpenCitations, in accord with POSI principle?
4. OpenCitations Management Team
The OpenCitations Management Team is part of the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata at the University of Bologna under the direction of Professor Silvio Peroni, and coordinates all the administrative and accounting activities of OpenCitations. The Team supports both the Directors and the Board by undertaking administrative and secretarial tasks, and, under the supervision of Prof. Silvio Peroni, by preparing the biannual OpenCitations progress reports and the annual OpenCitations financial report.
OpenCitations organizational bodies are fully described in this document.