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Enrico Daga

Enrico Daga

Senior Research Fellow

knowledge-media-institute

Professional biography

Enrico Daga has carried out R&D on Web Semantics first at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and then at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University in the UK. He has a PhD in Computer Science and is currently Research Fellow at the OU Knowledge Media Institute.

After playing key roles in projects developing intelligent systems for Ontology Engineering (NeOn) and Smart Cities (MK:Smart), his current research is exploring novel methods for data curation (policies and process knowledge) and the application of Knowledge Graphs in the humanities.

He is currently engaged in the EU-funded projects MultiPod and ClimateSense. Before, he was engaged in two EU-funded projects: SPICE -- as co-investigator, and Polifonia -- as Technical Director and Principal Investigator for the OU.

He is the Technical Director of the OU Open Knowledge Graph and the MK Data Hub, a Smart City Data Infrastructure supporting research (SciRoc—robots in Smart Cities) and innovation (CityLABS project). Passionate about AI and its relevance for Humanities research, Enrico is the founder of the WHiSe Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web and the Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) DARIAH WG.

 

Research interests

Enrico’s research is exploring novel methods for knowledge acquisition and curation and the application of Knowledge Graphs in domains such as Smart Cities and Cultural Heritage.

Current research interests include:

  • Knowledge graphs construction and applications
  • Hybrid methods for Knowledge Extraction
  • AI-supported Scholarship in the Humanities
  • Computational Policies (Licences, Digital Rights)
  • Privacy-aware Intelligent Systems
  • Heterogeneous data management infrastructures

Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 79 publications

  • Daga, E., Tamma, V. and Payne, T. R., 2026, ‘Knowledge Graph Re-engineering Along the Ontological Continuum’, in EKAW 2026: The 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026, Turin, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/111017/.
  • Graciotti, A., Piano, L., Lazzari, N., Daga, E., Tripodi, R., Presutti, V. and Pompianu, L., 2025, ‘KE-MHISTO: Towards a Multilingual Historical Knowledge Extraction Benchmark for Addressing the Long-Tail Problem’, in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 27 Jul - 1 Aug 2025, Vienna, Austria., https://oro.open.ac.uk/111852/.
  • Samela, L., Daga, E. and Mulholland, P., 2025, ‘Investigating vividness bias in language models through art interpretations’, in Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering (ELMKE), 26 Nov 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands., https://oro.open.ac.uk/101364/.
  • Motta, E., Daga, E., Gangemi, A., Gjelsvik, M. L., Osborne, F. and Salatino, A., 2025, ‘The Epistemology of Fine-Grained News Classification’, Semantic Web, 16(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/104622/.
  • Burel, G., Lisena, P., Daga, E., Troncy, R. and Alani, H., 2025, ‘ClimateSense at CheckThat! 2025: Combining Fine-tuned Large Language Models and Conventional Machine Learning Models for Subjectivity and Scientific Web Discourse Analysis: Notebook for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025’, in CLEF 2025, Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, In CheckThat! Lab, 09-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/107353/.
  • Begliuomini, M., Crisan, M., Daga, E., Damiano, R., Nechita, F., Roussillon-Constanty, L., Stranisci, M. A. and Trinchero, C., 2025, ‘Curated Datasets For Literary Tourism: A Case Study In Knowledge Graph Creation’, in SemDH 2025: Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities. Co-located with ESWC 2025, 02 Jun 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106264/.
  • Ratta, M., Daga, E. and Asprino, L., 2025, ‘PySPARQL Anything Showcase’, in Meroño Peñuela, Albert; Simperl, Elena; Corcho, Oscar; Poveda-Villalón, Maria; Groth, Paul; Tamma, Valentina; Giovanni Nuzzolese, Andrea; Sabou, Marta; Presutti, Valentina; Celino, Irene; Rovenko, Artem; Raad, Joe; Sartini, Bruno and Lisena, Pasquale eds. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events. ESWC 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 15344. Springer, pp. 301–305., https://oro.open.ac.uk/103547/.
  • Daga, E., 2025, ‘Process Knowledge Graphs (PKG): Towards unpacking and repacking AI applications’, Journal of Web Semantics, 84, https://oro.open.ac.uk/102353/.
  • Daga, E., Damiano, R., Díaz-Kommonen, L., Kuflik, T. and Striani, M., 2024, ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement’, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 17(4), https://oro.open.ac.uk/101724/.
  • Carvalho, J., Daga, E., Mulholland, P., Asprino, L., Uwasomba, C., Daquino, M., Gangemi, A., Maguire, M. and Stoneman, A., 2024, ‘Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives with a Linked Non-Open Data Hub’, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 17(4), https://oro.open.ac.uk/100981/.