There and back again: past, present, and future of OpenCitations

OpenCitations is an independent infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies. In my talk, I will briefly introduce the evolution of OpenCitations over the past few years, starting from the release of the new instance of the OpenCitations Corpus in 2016 to the creation of the OpenCitations Indexes and related tool, services, and software. As a consequence of being selected by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) as an open infrastructure deserving of crowdfunding support from the scholarly community, we have defined a three-year plan which involves new governance structure and future services that I then will outline.