Contribution

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

A reified relator binding a contributor (Agent), a contribution target (a Work, Expression, Manifestation, or Item), a contribution role, and an optional degree, carrying provenance, period, and confidence. THE universal credit construct; creative authorship, CRediT research roles, and mapping/software authorship are all Contributions. Flat shortcuts (gmeow:hasAuthor, gmeow:hasTranslator, …) cover the 80% query case.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Relator

Practical Pattern

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

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: prov, schema

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use when the role, period, degree, confidence, or evidence of a credit must be first-class — the reify-on-demand half of the credit pattern, covering authorship, CRediT research roles, and software contribution alike.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the plain 80% case where only the agent matters — assert a flat shortcut (gmeow:hasAuthor, gmeow:hasTranslator) instead — and avoid minting per-role subclasses of Contribution; the role is a value (gmeow:contributionRole), not a type.

How to use

• Mint the relator and bind gmeow:contributor, gmeow:contributionTarget, and gmeow:contributionRole (each functional per relator); add gmeow:contributionDegree, period, and confidence as needed. It pairsWith the flat gmeow:hasContributor shortcuts — promote when metadata is required.

Examples

• ex:c1 a gmeow:Contribution; gmeow:contributor ex:bernhard; gmeow:contributionTarget ex:hamletGermanTranslation; gmeow:contributionRole gmeow:roleTranslator.