Post

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

A seat or position that exists independently of who currently holds it — the CFO chair is not the person now in it. A Post bundles a gmeow:Role within a specific gmeow:Organization, enabling 'vacant post' and 'succession in a post' queries.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:FunctionalComplex

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Post as a specialized kind of gufo:FunctionalComplex. 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.

Post And Membership

• Source: slices/core/organization/examples/post-and-membership.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-organization-examples-post-and-membership

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the seat is not the sitter. GMEOW de-conflates the two
# things surface vocabularies collapse into "CFO": the gmeow:Post (the seat, a
# RoleMixin that exists whether or not anyone fills it) and the gmeow:Membership
# (a person's tenure occupying it). The membership gmeow:fillsPost the post, so a
# vacancy (a Post with no Membership) and a succession (two Memberships filling
# one Post) are both expressible. organizationType is an open VALUE (a company is
# a company by value, not by subclass), and subOrganizationOf decomposes the org
# structurally — distinct from "is a member of".
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/organization/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- The CFO Post: the seat, defined independently of who holds it.
ex:cfoPost a gmeow:Post ;
    rdfs:label "Chief Financial Officer"@en ;
    gmeow:postIn ex:acme .

Contact Points

• Source: slices/core/contacts/examples/contact-points.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-contacts-examples-contact-points

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: contact details are flat-first, reified on demand ( P4).
# A bare gmeow:email / gmeow:telephone on the agent covers the common case. When
# a contact point carries a TYPE (work vs personal), a PROVIDER, structured parts
# or a postal frame, it is promoted to a reified gmeow:ContactPoint reached via
# gmeow:hasContactPoint. A gmeow:PostalAddress is expressed in an explicit postal/
# administrative REFERENCE FRAME (P11): its street/locality/region components are
# coordinate values along that frame's axes — the as-written surface form, kept
# distinct from the resolved geographic Place (gmeow:addressPlace).
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/contacts/> .

# --- Reified postal address: components are coordinates in the postal frame (P11).
ex:homeAddress a gmeow:PostalAddress ;
    gmeow:contactPointType   gmeow:contactPointTypePersonal ;
    gmeow:postalAddressFrame gmeow:referenceFramePostalAddress ;
    gmeow:streetAddress      "742 Evergreen Terrace" ;
    gmeow:addressLocality    "Springfield" ;
    gmeow:addressRegion      "Oregon" ;
    gmeow:postalCode         "97403" ;
    gmeow:countryCode        "US" .

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: org

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a holder-independent seat — a named chair tied to one organization — when 'who holds the CFO post', 'vacant post', or 'succession in a post' must be queryable apart from any incumbent.

Avoid when

• Avoid for a holder-independent function with no fixed organization (that is a bare gmeow:Role) and avoid conflating the seat with its occupant — the sitter is bound through a gmeow:Membership via gmeow:fillsPost, never identified with the Post.

How to use

• Mint a gmeow:Post, bind its organization with gmeow:postIn and its role with gmeow:hasRole, then seat an incumbent by pointing a gmeow:Membership at it with gmeow:fillsPost; a vacant post is simply one no membership fills.

Examples

• ex:cfoPost a gmeow:Post; gmeow:postIn ex:acme; gmeow:hasRole ex:cfoRole.