Participant Role

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

The role an entity plays in an event — a VALUE, never a participation subproperty. The set is open; a role not among the seeds is a FRESH gmeow:ParticipantRole individual with rdfs:label. Carried by gmeow:participationRole on a gmeow:Participation.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

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

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: sem

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the value vocabulary for the participation-role axis — the open set of individuals (principal, witness, officiant, performer, …) that gmeow:participationRole draws from; mint a fresh individual for a role not seeded.

Avoid when

• Avoid reviving a hasWitness-style participation SUBPROPERTY (the former genealogy idiom was refactored into role values, Principle 6), and avoid confusing it with gmeow:EventType — role is who-did-what, type is what-kind, two orthogonal axes.

How to use

• Add a new role as a gmeow:ParticipantRole individual with rdfs:label and skos:definition; reference it from a gmeow:Participation via gmeow:participationRole, which is non-functional so a participant may bear several roles.

Examples

• ex:roleBestMan a gmeow:ParticipantRole; rdfs:label "best man"@en.