Script Language Attribution

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

A standpoint-scoped claim assigning a language, writing system, or notation system to an inscription. Handles disputed, uncertain, and undeciphered cases: an undeciphered inscription may carry an attribution to a NotationSystem with low confidence and determinacy = disputed, while competing palaeographic classifications coexist as separate attributions (Principle 9). Follows the universal Observation + Relator pattern.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Observation, gufo:Relator

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:ScriptLanguageAttribution as a specialized kind of gmeow:Observation, gufo:Relator. 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.

Inscription Reading

• Source: slices/extensions/archaeological-evidence/examples/inscription-reading.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-archaeological-evidence-examples-inscription-reading

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a damaged inscription has many defensible readings (, P9).
# An gmeow:Inscription sits on a physical gmeow:carrierType (tablet, coin, seal …).
# Reading it is not a fact but a reified gmeow:InscriptionReading — an Observation
# with its own vantage and method — so two epigraphers' transcriptions of the same
# worn marks COEXIST, neither privileged. A gmeow:ScriptLanguageAttribution
# (cuneiform / Akkadian) is likewise a vantage-scoped claim, not a settled label.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/archaeological-evidence/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:attribution a gmeow:ScriptLanguageAttribution ;
    gmeow:attributionTarget  ex:inscription ;
    gmeow:attributedScript   ex:cuneiform ;
    gmeow:attributedLanguage ex:akkadian ;
    gmeow:vantage            ex:smith ;
    gmeow:observationMethod  gmeow:methodExpertJudgement .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Observation

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: crminf

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences