Member
Enrico Daga
Senior Research Fellow
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, where he obtained a PhD. Enrico is currently Senior Research Fellow in KMi.
RESEARCH
His research is exploring novel methods for Knowledge Graph construction (SPARQL Anything) and infrastructure, with particular focus on metadata management, policies and process knowledge; applied to data-intensive scenarios in the smart cities, healthcare, humanities, and cultural heritage domains. He has so far supervised three PhD students to completion.
ACTIVITY
Enrico is Technical Director and Principal Investigator (PI) for the OU in the EU-funded H2020 project Polifonia and co-investigator and work package leader in the H2020 project SPICE.
He is Technical Director of the OU Open Knowledge Graph and of the MK Data Hub, a Smart City Data Infrastructure supporting research (SciRoc - robots in Smart Cities) and innovation (CityLABS project). Before, he played key roles in projects developing intelligent systems for Ontology Engineering (NeOn) and Smart Cities (MK:Smart).
Keys: Knowledge Graphs, Policies and Processes, Smart Cities, Humanities
Team: Jason Carvalho, Alba Morales Tirado, , Chukwudi Uwasomba
Projects
Technologies
News
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Publications
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/.
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/.
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/.
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/.
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/.
Daga, E. (2024). Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives: A Data Journey. Knowledge Organization, 51(5), pp. 310–319. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99976/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Daga, E. and Asprino, L. (2024). Path-based and triplification approaches to mapping data into RDF: User behaviours and recommendations. Semantic Web, 15(6), pp. 2479–2505. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99559/.
Mulholland, P., Van Kranenburg, P., Carvalho, J. and Daga, E. (2024). Supporting the End-User Curation of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs. In: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), 10-13 Sep 2024, Poznań, Poland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99120/.
Daga, E., Scharnhorst, A. and Smiraglia, R.P. (2023). Ordering the world, ordering our thinking, ordering interdisciplinary collaboration - on knowledge organization and ontology engineering. In: Mieg, Harald A. and Scharnhorst, Andrea eds. Transferability: Reflections on planning and knowledge organization. Bibliographische Informationen Der Deutschen Bibliothek (2022). Berlin, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 133–153. https://oro.open.ac.uk/98808/.
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024). Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), 19-24 Oct 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/98676/.
Daga, E., Carvalho, J. and Morales Tirado, A. (2024). Extracting licence information from web resources with a Large Language Model. In: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, 26-27 May 2024, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97612/.
Daga, E. (2023). Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives: a Data Journey. In: 7th ISKO UK Biennial Conference, ISKO-UK 2023 (Volume 3661 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings), 24-25 Jul 2023, Glasgow. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97722/.
Morales Tirado, A., Carvalho, J., Ratta, M., Uwasomba, C., Mulholland, P., Barlow, H., Herbert, T. and Daga, E. (2024). Musical Meetups Knowledge Graph (MMKG): a collection of evidence for historical social network analysis. In: ESWC 2024: The 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference, 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/96738/.
Van Erp, M., Troncy, R., Presutti, V., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Tonelli, S. and Daga, E. (2023). 2nd International Workshop on Multisensory Data and Knowledge (MDK). In: WWW '23: The ACM Web Conference 2023, 30 Apr - o4 May 2023, Austin, TX, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/96286/.
Daga, E., Daquino, M., Fournier-S’niehotta, R., Guillotel-Nothmann, C. and Scharnhorst, A. (2024). Documenting the research process. Opportunities and challenges for Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval. In: 13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2023), 2 Apr 2023, Dublin, Ireland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/96237/.
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023). Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech. In: 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 20-22 Sep 2023, Leipzig, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/92895/.
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A., Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Maguire, M. (2023). Deep Viewpoints: Scripted Support for the Citizen Curation of Museum Artworks. In: HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 4-8 Sep 2023, Rome, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/91305/.
Tech Reports
Extracting URI Patterns from SPARQL Endpoints
Techreport ID: kmi-15-01
Date: 2015
Author(s): Mathieu d'Aquin,Alessandro Adamou,Enrico Daga,Nicolas Jay
Describing semantic web applications through relations between data nodes
Techreport ID: kmi-14-05
Date: 2014
Author(s): Enrico Daga,Mathieu d'Aquin,Aldo Gangemi,Enrico Motta













