Selector

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

A pinpoint reference into a cited creative work — a page number, text position, text quote, or generic locator. Replaces the retired gmeow:Citation (which collided with scholarly citation). A specialization of gmeow:EvidenceSpan: a citation selector is an anchored target within a cited work. Coordinated with EvidenceSpan audit machinery's EvidenceSpan mechanism and reused by annotation target span's annotation target span.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:EvidenceSpan

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Selector as a specialized kind of gmeow:EvidenceSpan. 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.

Citation Act

• Source: slices/core/citations/examples/citation-act.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-citations-examples-citation-act

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: citation is flat-first, reified on demand ( P4 — the same
# promotion pattern as rights). A bare gmeow:cites edge covers "A references B".
# When the citation's INTENT and exact LOCATION matter, it is promoted to a
# gmeow:CitationAct relator binding gmeow:citingEntity × gmeow:citedEntity ×
# gmeow:citationIntent, pinned to a precise gmeow:Selector (page + verbatim quote)
# via gmeow:viaSelector. gmeow:cites pairsWith gmeow:CitationAct: the flat edge
# and its reification name the same fact at two levels of detail.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/citations/> .

ex:sel1 a gmeow:Selector ;
    gmeow:selectorPage      "42" ;
    gmeow:selectorTextQuote "the modified Exner equation for bed evolution" .

Annotations And Notes

• Source: slices/extensions/notes/examples/annotations-and-notes.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-notes-examples-annotations-and-notes

ex:span a gmeow:Selector ;
    gmeow:selectorTextQuote "the attention mechanism scales quadratically with sequence length" .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:EvidenceSpan

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: gxv, oa

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 mint a pinpoint anchor into a cited work — a page, character offset, verbatim quote, or generic locator — referenced from a gmeow:CitationAct via gmeow:viaSelector.

Avoid when

• Avoid it when the citation targets the whole work (omit the selector) and avoid minting a parallel anchor type — Selector specializes gmeow:EvidenceSpan and is reused by the evidence and annotation machinery (Principle 6).

How to use

• Mint one Selector per locus, fill the relevant gmeow:selectorPage / selectorTextPosition / selectorTextQuote / selectorLocator literal, and attach it to a CitationAct with gmeow:viaSelector.

Examples

• ex:page42 a gmeow:Selector; gmeow:selectorPage "42".