The path to open: premises and achievements after more than a decade of OpenCitations

In this talk, I will introduce what are the main aspects characterising OpenCitations, a community-based Open Science infrastructure dedicated to the publication of bibliographic metadata and citation data. In particular, I will focus on the crucial premises that have laid the groundwork for enabling the opening of citation data and the steps that have characterised the evolution of OpenCitations from a university research project to the scholarly infrastructure we know today.