Distribution

A concrete distribution artifact of a software product — a tarball, wheel, binary, container image, or installer. The physical/bits facet of the release; identified by content digest.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject

Practical Pattern

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

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Commit History

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a commit DAG with identity canonicalization and build provenance
# Commits form a directed graph via gmeow:commitAncestor. Each commit's
# author is recorded as a gmeow:AuthorIdentity — the as-committed git identity
# (one of possibly many emails) — which gmeow:canonicalizedIdentity resolves to
# the real gmeow:Agent, so "same person, three git emails" is one agent without
# rewriting history. A gmeow:BuildActivity ties a source commit (gmeow:buildSource)
# to the gmeow:Distribution it produced (gmeow:buildOutput): verifiable provenance
# from source to artifact.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/software/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:dist a gmeow:Distribution ; rdfs:label "myapp-1.0.0.tar.gz"@en .

Lillith Dataset

ex:lillith-crate a gmeow:Distribution ;
    rdfs:label "lillith.crate.zip"@en ;
    gmeow:contentDigest "blake3:8888999900001111222233334444555566667777aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeff66" .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject