Inquiry Tenure

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

The reified, time-scoped fact that an agent held an open question over an interval — an inquiry opened in January and closed by an accepted answer in June is an opened-then-closed tenure, never a deletion (Principle 10). The StandpointTenure idiom applied to inquiry: use only when the opening / closing of an inquiry is itself worth modelling; the common case is a bare gmeow:asks with validFrom / validUntil on the statement. Carries its interval via gmeow:duringInterval (temporal module); a closed tenure is kept with gmeow:displayable false.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:TimeScopedRelation

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the reified half of the gmeow:asks ↔ gmeow:InquiryTenure pair: when the opening, closing, or reopening of an agent's open question over an interval is itself the fact of interest, so the inquiry can be opened and closed rather than mutated.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the 80% case where an agent simply holds a question open (use the flat gmeow:asks with validFrom / validUntil) and never delete a closed inquiry — close it and set gmeow:displayable false, reopening by suppressing the prior accepted answer (Principle 10).

How to use

• Mint one InquiryTenure per (agent, question) holding, bind gmeow:tenureInquirer and gmeow:tenureQuestion, scope it with gmeow:duringInterval (temporal module); record closure by an accepted gmeow:answers-claim and suppression with gmeow:displayable false rather than removing the triple.

Scope notes

• Minted ON DEMAND when the opening / closing of an inquiry is itself the fact of interest; the common case is a bare gmeow:asks annotation, reify on demand (Principle 4). REOPENING a closed inquiry is modelled by closing the prior accepted answer with gmeow:displayable false (retain-never-delete, Principle 10), never by deletion; the question and its inquiry history stay queryable.

Examples

• ex:keySearch a gmeow:InquiryTenure; gmeow:tenureInquirer ex:lillith; gmeow:tenureQuestion ex:whereIsTheKey; gmeow:duringInterval ex:firstHalfYear.