Address Tenure

• CURIE: gmeow:AddressTenure
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/AddressTenure
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/contacts
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

The reified, time-scoped fact that an agent held a contact point (e.g. an email address) over a particular interval.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:AddressTenure as a specialized kind of gmeow:TimeScopedRelation. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record that an agent held a contact point over a particular interval — the way a retired email or number is carried (validUntil in the past) rather than deleted (P10).

Avoid when

• Avoid it for a current channel that needs no history (attach the contact point directly with gmeow:hasContactPoint) and avoid deleting a lapsed channel — close its tenure instead.

How to use

• Mint the situation, bind it with gmeow:addressHolder and gmeow:tenuredContactPoint, and scope it on the temporal slice's time-scoped-relation interval; a past end-date retires the channel without erasing it.

Examples

• ex:tenure a gmeow:AddressTenure; gmeow:addressHolder ex:lillith; gmeow:tenuredContactPoint ex:oldEmail.