Genre

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

A contested, registry-independent, lineage-bearing information object used to characterise creative works. Like gmeow:Language, a genre is a first-class individual-bearing class; it is never a subclass tree and never a privileged winner of a genre dispute (Principles 5, 9).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: discogs, mbz, wd

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to mint a genre as a first-class, contestable, lineage-bearing object that creative works point at via gmeow:hasGenre — competing genre claims coexist as standpoint-indexed statements.

Avoid when

• Avoid building a genre subclass tree or anointing one genre as the privileged winner of a dispute (Principles 5, 9), and avoid conflating genre with the work's kind (gmeow:CreativeWorkType).

How to use

• Mint each genre as an individual of gmeow:Genre, record its lineage with gmeow:wasDerivedFrom, and attach it to works via gmeow:hasGenre; carry disputes on the statement layer rather than as a winner.

Examples

• ex:bebop a gmeow:Genre; gmeow:wasDerivedFrom ex:swing.