Metric Kind

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

The computational method by which distance or dissimilarity is measured in a reference frame — geodesic (curved surface), Euclidean (straight-line in Cartesian space), cosine (angular similarity in latent vector space), edit-distance (Levenshtein / sequence alignment), or graph-hops (shortest-path in a network). A value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses) per Principle 9.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to name how distance or dissimilarity is computed in a frame — geodesic, Euclidean, cosine, edit-distance, graph-hops — as a value individual.

Avoid when

• Avoid materialising the computed distances as triples (the metric declares the method; the solver computes, Principle 12) and avoid subclassing for a new metric.

How to use

• Mint the metric as a gmeow:MetricKind individual and reference it from a frame via the functional gmeow:hasMetricKind.

Examples

• ex:metricGeodesic a gmeow:MetricKind.