The scientific events ontology of the OpenResearch.org curation platform

Scholarly events, such as conferences play a key role in scholarly communication from many research fields, such as computer science. We describe a systematic redesign of the OpenResearch Scientific Events Ontology (OR-SEO) that is used as a schema for the event pages on OpenResearch.org curation platform. OR-SEO is now in use in thousands of event pages on OpenResearch, which enables users to create events wiki-pages without going into the details of the implementation of the ontology. We syntactically and semantically validated OR-SEO to conform to the W3C standards. It has been published through a persistent URL following W3C best practices for publishing Linked data and has been registered at Linked Open Vocabularies.