Observable Property

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

A physical, chemical, biological, or environmental property that can be observed or measured by a sensor. A value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses) so any new property — from temperature to neural activation to social sentiment — is a new individual, not a new class (Principle 9).

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:ObservableProperty as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. 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.

Sensor Reading

• Source: slices/extensions/sensory/examples/sensor-reading.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-sensory-examples-sensor-reading

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a sensor reading on the observation stack . A
# gmeow:SensoryObservation records WHAT was sensed (gmeow:sensoryObservationOf),
# WHICH gmeow:ObservableProperty (humidity), and the gmeow:SensoryQuantity result.
# A gmeow:Sensor is a gufo functional complex that is also an Agent, so it is the
# observation's gmeow:vantage — the SensoryObservation is an Observation like any
# other, just produced by an instrument on a gmeow:SensorPlatform at a location.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/sensory/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:humidity a gmeow:ObservableProperty ; rdfs:label "relative humidity"@en .

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: loinc, oboe, pato, sosa

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage