Image Region

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

A region within an image — a structural part of a gmeow:MediaObject, described by a gmeow:RegionSelector that encodes its boundaries. The counterpart of ContentSegment for visual media: a face, an object bounding box, a polygon, or a pixel mask. Carries a human-readable gmeow:regionLabel.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:ImageRegion 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.

Photo Metadata

• Source: slices/extensions/images/examples/photo-metadata.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-images-examples-photo-metadata

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: image metadata at three layers. EXIF technical tags
# (gmeow:hasExifTag) record how the bytes were captured. A gmeow:ImageRegion with
# a typed gmeow:RegionSelector pins WHERE something is in the frame (a fractional
# bounding box). And a gmeow:DepictionUsage makes "this image depicts X" a
# PERSPECTIVAL act, not a bare fact: it records the subject, the context (candid /
# portrait / childhood …), and WHOSE authority asserts the depiction — so the same
# photo can be a "family" depiction to one audience and a "work" depiction to
# another, without either being privileged.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/images/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- A region of the image: WHERE Dana's face is, by a fractional bounding box.
ex:faceRegion a gmeow:ImageRegion ;
    gmeow:regionOf       ex:photo ;
    gmeow:regionLabel    "Dana" ;
    gmeow:regionSelector ex:bbox .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: iiif, oa, wd

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

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