Margherita Porena is research assistant at ISTC-CNR, and works on the ArCo and ArCo4Science projects and her topics of interest are semantic web, knowledge representation and cultural heritage. Her research work focuses on creating new models to represent information on cultural assets (with particular attention to architectural and natural heritage), to enrich the knowledge graph of Italian cultural heritage. She has a M.A. in Philosophy and theoretical-critical studies and in Book and Archival Heritage at the Università degli studi La Sapienza in Rome.