Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2025


The Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 (WOOC 2025) will take place on May 28-29, 2025 at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Full information on the workshop is available at https://workshop-oc.github.io/.


The Workshop

We invite to the Workshop Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC) researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, institutions, and open citations advocates, interested in the widespread adoption of practises for creation, sharing, reuse and improvement of open scholarly metadata.

This year edition of the workshop will gravitate around the following theme:
“Open Access of Research Information”

In particular, the first day will be dedicated to the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information, to encourage discussion between the signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration and other interested bodies and collaboratively orient the common roadmap, thus allowing the articulation of the outcomes that have recently been discussed during the Paris Conference on Open Research Information.

The second day will be dedicated to invited contributions, presentations and a poster session selected among the participants in the call for contributions on the workshop theme.

Participation to both days of WOOC 2025 is open to everyone. In particular OpenCitations and the WOOC organizing committee aim to welcome the signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration, and anyone interested in Open Research Information in an interactive event that aspires to encourage the incubation of ideas to strategically orienting the development of practices in open research information.


Call for participation and contributions is now open

We invite you to submit a long abstract (1250-1500 words) coherent with the theme of Open Access of Research information. The abstract will be peer-reviewed and, if selected, will be published as a conference paper with a dedicated DOI under the WOOC-2025 community on Zenodo. The organizing committee will decide if the selected submissions will involve either a talk of 15-minute duration, with a 5-minute discussion following, or a poster presentation accompanied by a 2-3 minute pitch talk, presented on May 29th. If you do not wish to submit a contribution, you can apply for participation only.

Application deadline (for participation and contributions): 13 January 2025

More information and a link to the application form: https://workshop-oc.github.io/#cfp


Organizing committee

  • Silvio Peroni, OpenCitations | University of Bologna
  • Chiara Di Giambattista, OpenCitations | University of Bologna
  • Claudio Fabbri, OpenCitations | University of Bologna
  • Ivan Heibi, OpenCitations | University of Bologna
  • Ludo Waltman, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
  • Bianca Kramer, Sesame Open Science
  • Cameron Neylon, COKI | Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University

More information

Full information on the workshop is available at https://workshop-oc.github.io/.