Zilverling

dr. L.O. Bonino da Silva Santos MSc (Luiz)

Associate Professor
EEMCS-CS-SCS
Zilverling 2005
l.o.boninodasilvasantos@utwente.nl
+31534896403
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I'm an Associate Professor at the Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services group at the University of Twente and at the BioSemantics group, in the department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center.

My main research topics are the FAIR principles, semantic interoperability, ontology-driven conceptual modelling and intelligent systems design. Since 2014 I have been closely involved in designing and leading the implementation of a number of technologies and approaches to support the realisation of the FAIR principles.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Ontology
    • Interoperability
    • User
    • Models
    • Metadata
    • Digital Object
    • Domains
    • Conceptual Model

Organisations

Together with my position at the University of Twente, I am also Associate Professor in the BioSemantics Group at the Leiden University Medica Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Since 2014 I have been closely involved in the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) movement. More specifically, I have participated in the research, design and development of a number of approaches and technologies to enable and/or facilitate the realisation of the FAIR principles such as FAIR metrics, FAIR Data Point, FAIRifier, FAIR Data Train and FAIR Digital Objects Framework.

Publications

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2025

Exploring a Large Language Model for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development (2025)Data Intelligence, 7(2), 265-302. Soares, F. M., Saraiva, A. M., Pires, L. F., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.3724/2096-7004.di.2025.0020Exploring a Large Language Model for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Soares, F. M., Saraiva, A. M., Pires, L. F., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.18651Restructuring knowledge graphs with conceptual models - Supplementary material (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Bernabé, C., Zwart, R., Perdomo-Quinteiro, P., Jacobsen, A., Prince Sales, T., Queralt-Rosinach, N., Wolstencroft, K., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Mons, B. & Roos, M.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15163097FAIRDataTeam/FAIRDataPoint-client (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Slifka, J., Suchánek, M., Dennis & Bonino, L. O.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15020415Supporting Data for "Exploring ChatGPT-4 for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development" (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Soares, F., Saraiva, A. M., Ferreira Pires, L., Bonino, L., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12684940GO-Plan: A goal-oriented method for FAIRification planning - supplementary material (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Bernabé, C., Valle Sousa, I., Prince Sales, T., Schultes, E., van Ulzen, N., Silva Souza, V. E., Jacobsen, A., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Barend, M. & Roos, M.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14780347

2024

Towards a Conceptual Model for FAIR Metadata Schemas (2024)In Companion Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER Forum, Special Topics, Posters and Demos : Co-located with ER 2024 (pp. 42-55) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3849). CEUR. Soares, F. M., Pires, L. F., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., Calhau, R. F., Moreira dos Santos Maculan, B. C., Coyle, K., Wang, S., Folmer, E., Pignatari Drucker, D., Campos, M. L. d. A., Marcondes, C. H., Almeida, M. B., Braghetto, K. R., Dias, G. A., Salim, J. A., Corrêa, F. E., de Abreu Moreira, D., Botazzo Delbem, A. C. & Saraiva, A. M.https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3849/forum4.pdfAgriculture Product Types Ontology (APTO) (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Miranda Soares, F., Ferreira Pires, L., Bonino, L., Corrêa, F. E., de Abreu Moreira, D., Pignatari Drucker, D., Braghetto, K. R., Botazzo Delbem, A. C., Mauro Saraiva, A. & Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, L.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13271284Agriculture and Livestock Metadata Elements Set (Almes Core) (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Soares, F., Corrêa, F. E., de Abreu Moreira, D., Pignatari Drucker, D., Braghetto, K. R., Delbem, A. C. B., Ferreira Pires, L., Bonino, L. & Saraiva, A. M.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12711289A study on interoperability between two Personal Health Train infrastructures in leukodystrophy data analysis (2024)Scientific Data, 11(1). Article 663. Welten, S., de Arruda Botelho Herr, M., Hempel, L., Hieber, D., Placzek, P., Graf, M., Weber, S., Neumann, L., Jugl, M., Tirpitz, L., Kindermann, K., Geisler, S., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Decker, S., Pfeifer, N., Kohlbacher, O. & Kirsten, T.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03450-6Building expertise on FAIR through evolving Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) workshops: describing the data, software, and management- focused approaches and their evolution (2024)Data Intelligence, 6(2), 429-456. Bernabé, C. H., Thielemans, L., Kaliyaperumal, R., Carta, C., Zhang, S., van Gelder, C. W. G., Benis, N., da Silva Santos, L. O. B., Cornet, R., Vieira, B. d. s., Lalout, N., Henriques, I., Ballesteros, A. C., Burger, K., Kersloot, M. g., Ehrhart, F., van Enckevort, E., Evelo, C. T., Gray, A. J. G., … Jacobsen, A.https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00236Why Adverse Outcome Pathways Need to be FAIR (2024)Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, 40(4), 50-56. Wittwehr, C., Clerbaux, L. A., Edwards, S., Angrish, M., Mortensen, H., Carusi, A., Gromelski, M., Lekka, E., Virvilis, V., Martens, M., da Silva Santos, L. O. B. & Nymark, P.https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2307131FAIR Data Train: A FAIR-Compliant Distributed Data and Services Platform (2024)In Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 36th International Conference, CAiSE 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3–7, 2024, Proceedings (pp. 637-638) ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14663). Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O.Ontological Analysis of FAIR Supporting Resources (2024)In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024) (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3882). Magagna, B., Schultes, E., Fouilloux, A., Burger, G., Devriendt, D., Bramley, R., Kuhn, T., Moreira, J. L. R., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O. & Pires, L. F.Ontology Enhanced FAIR Data Point Searches (2024)In Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences 2024 (pp. 140-144) (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3890). Liao, X., Baakman, C., Burger, K., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O. & Thoen, P. A. C.What Do I Get from Modeling?: An Empirical Study on Using Structural Conceptual Models (2024)In Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 27th International Conference, EDOC 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands, October 30 – November 3, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 21-38) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14367). Springer. Valle Sousa, I., Prince Sales, T., Guerra, E., Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, L. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46587-1_2

2023

Towards a Conceptual Model for the FAIR Digital Object Framework (2023)In Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (FOIS 2023) (pp. 227-241) (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 377). IOS. Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Sales, T. P., Fonseca, C. M. & Guizzardi, G.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA231131The use of foundational ontologies in biomedical research (2023)Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 14(1). Article 21. Bernabé, C. H., Queralt-Rosinach, N., Silva Souza, V. E., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., Mons, B., Jacobsen, A. & Roos, M.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-023-00300-zJoint Proceedings of the Onto4FAIR 2023 Workshops: collocated with 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS 2023, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, July 20, 2023 and 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTICS 2023 (2023)[Book/Report › Book editing] 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS 2023. HAL. Trojahn, C., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., Guizzardi, G., Jonquet, C., Katsumi, M., Sanfilippo, E. M., D'Souza, J. & Rula, A.Lifetime extension assessment of collected washing machines (2023)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Stiksma, F.

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