Identifier

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

A reified external-identifier record bundling a scheme-local value with its scheme, and optionally the authority URL that resolves it and a human-readable name — an ORCID, a geni profile id, a Nostr nip05, a LEI, a ROR ID, a NAICS code. Reification ensures that when an entity carries multiple identifiers, each value is paired with its correct scheme (and url/name) in projections. The structured sibling of gmeow:authorityLink: a flat authorityLink points at an external record by IRI; an Identifier decomposes the scheme/value/url/name a schema:PropertyValue or DataCite relatedIdentifier carries.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:FunctionalComplex

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:authorityLink, gmeow:hasIdentifier

Cross-Cutting Concerns

identifiers and coreference

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: 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 to reify an external identifier so its scheme, value, resolving URL, and label travel together — necessary whenever an entity carries more than one code (a LEI plus a ROR plus a NAICS) and projections must pair each value with its own scheme.

Avoid when

• Avoid a flat scheme-on-the-bearer property (it produces cross-product pairing bugs when several identifiers coexist) and avoid it for a plain see-also IRI (that is the flat gmeow:authorityLink); a name borne by an entity is a gmeow:Appellation, not an Identifier.

How to use

• Mint one gmeow:Identifier per code, set gmeow:identifierScheme and gmeow:identifierValue on it (plus gmeow:identifierUrl and rdfs:label as needed), and attach it with gmeow:hasIdentifier or a specialization (gmeow:legalIdentifier, gmeow:industryClassification).

Examples

• ex:acmeLei a gmeow:Identifier; gmeow:identifierScheme "lei"; gmeow:identifierValue "529900T8BM49AURSDO55".