Permission

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

A rule that grants the ability to exercise a gmeow:RightsAction over the governed asset (odrl:Permission). Its required duties ride gmeow:hasDuty.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Rule

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Permission as a specialized kind of gmeow:Rule. 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.

Licensed Dataset

• Source: slices/core/rights/examples/licensed-dataset.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-rights-examples-licensed-dataset

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: rights are flat-first, promoted on demand ( P4). The
# common case is a single gmeow:hasLicense + gmeow:hasCopyright edge — no relator
# needed. Only when the deontic RULES matter (who may do what, under which duty,
# what is forbidden) is the flat form PROMOTED to a gmeow:RightsStatement bearing
# the ODRL-superset trio: gmeow:Permission / gmeow:Prohibition / gmeow:Duty, each
# over an open gmeow:RightsAction value. A licence is itself an Agreement, aligned
# to CC/ODRL by reference (spdxLicenseId, licenseFamily) — never owl:sameAs (P5).
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/rights/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- Permission to reproduce, but only if the attribution DUTY is discharged.
ex:permReproduce a gmeow:Permission ;
    gmeow:ruleAction gmeow:actionReproduce ;
    gmeow:hasDuty    ex:dutyAttribute .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Rule

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: odrl, premis, schema

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 for a granted ability — an action the assignee is allowed to exercise over the asset (the odrl:Permission rule), optionally conditioned by its own duties.

Avoid when

• Avoid for a forbidden action (use gmeow:Prohibition) or a bare obligation (use gmeow:Duty); the three rule kinds are pairwise disjoint, so one instance is never two of them.

How to use

• Mint one Permission per allowed action with a single gmeow:ruleAction, link it from the statement with gmeow:hasPermission, and hang its required gmeow:Duty rules via gmeow:hasDuty; add gmeow:ruleConstraint for conditional grants.

Examples

• ex:mayReproduce a gmeow:Permission; gmeow:ruleAction gmeow:actionReproduce; gmeow:hasDuty ex:mustAttribute.