Profile

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

A closed descriptor schema for an open-but-structured facet. A Profile self-describes the properties that constitute the facet and the open value vocabularies from which their values are drawn, enabling extensibility-by-construction.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject, gufo:Object

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Profile as a specialized kind of gmeow:InformationObject, gufo:Object. 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.

Named Profile Membership

• Source: slices/core/profiles/examples/named-profile-membership.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-profiles-examples-named-profile-membership

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/profiles/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos:  <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — the Profile meta-pattern in use: a closed descriptor schema
# over an open value vocabulary, and an instance that claims conformance to it.
#
# A consumer declares a self-describing facet for a TAGGING (the reified
# tagger × tagged × tag × scheme relator) WITHOUT minting per-tag subclasses.
# It mints one gmeow:Profile that names (a) the class it applies to (the existing
# gmeow:Tagging), (b) the descriptor properties that constitute the facet, and
# (c) the open value vocabulary those descriptors draw from (the existing
# gmeow:Tag, whose members are individuals, never subclasses — P9). Extension
# happens by adding Tag INDIVIDUALS — each referenced as the value of the
# gmeow:taggingTag descriptor — never by altering the closed descriptor set. A
# concrete Tagging points at the Profile with gmeow:hasProfile, so a consumer
# holding only the data can dereference the Profile and learn the complete
# schema — the self-description that makes "extensible by construction" a
# structure, not a slogan. The example mints no classes of its own (it reuses
# gmeow:Tagging / gmeow:Tag / gmeow:TagScheme), and asserts no Expression-typed
# value, so no P11 frame is required.

# --- The Profile: a closed descriptor schema for a tagging. It SELF-DESCRIBES —
#     naming the class it governs (profileAppliesTo gmeow:Tagging), the
#     descriptor properties (profileDescriptor), and the open value class
#     (profileOpenValue gmeow:Tag) — so tooling reads the graph, not code. A
#     Profile MUST carry a skos:definition.
ex:profileTagging a gmeow:Profile ;
    rdfs:label "Tagging Profile"@en ;
    skos:definition "The closed descriptor schema for a reified tagging: the entity tagged, the tag applied (drawn from the open gmeow:Tag vocabulary), the agent who applied it, and the scheme it belongs to. New tags extend the facet as data added to the open value class, with this descriptor set unchanged."@en ;
    gmeow:profileAppliesTo gmeow:Tagging ;
    gmeow:profileDescriptor
        gmeow:taggingTagged ,
        gmeow:taggingTag ,
        gmeow:taggingTagger ,
        gmeow:taggingScheme ;
    gmeow:profileOpenValue gmeow:Tag .

Web Presence

• Source: slices/core/documents/examples/web-presence.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-documents-examples-web-presence

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a web presence on the WEMI spine. A WebSite and
# its WebPages are concrete gmeow:Manifestations — so each embodies an Expression
# that realizes a Work, the same four-tier backing every published artifact
# carries. Pages belong to the site via gmeow:pageOfSite (⊑ partOf). The about
# page names a person as its gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject (⊑ isAbout), which makes
# it a gmeow:ProfilePage by INFERENCE — ProfilePage is a defined class (any
# WebPage whose principal subject is an Agent), so no manual typing is needed.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/documents/> .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: prof

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 to declare the closed descriptor schema for an open-but-structured facet — the set of descriptor properties and the open value vocabularies a frame, value, or named slice profile is built from.

Avoid when

• Avoid for an ordinary instance of a facet (a Profile describes the schema, not a value of it) and avoid subclassing the facet's open vocabularies into the descriptor — list them with gmeow:profileOpenValue instead.

How to use

• Mint the Profile as an individual, name its target class with gmeow:profileAppliesTo, enumerate descriptor properties with gmeow:profileDescriptor, and the open value classes with gmeow:profileOpenValue; instances reference it via gmeow:hasProfile.

Examples

• ex:profileReferenceFrame a gmeow:Profile; gmeow:profileAppliesTo gmeow:ReferenceFrame.