account status

CURIE: gmeow:accountStatus
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/accountStatus
Category: property
Defined by: gmeow:slices/accounts
Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The holder's usage status of an account — a gmeow:AccountStatus value (active / dormant / historical). A retired account is status 'historical' with validUntil in the past, never deleted (P10).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:OnlineAccount -> gmeow:AccountStatus

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:accountStatus from gmeow:OnlineAccount to gmeow:AccountStatus when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Online Presence

Source: slices/core/accounts/examples/online-presence.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-accounts-examples-online-presence

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: online accounts, decentralized identity, and P10. An
# agent gmeow:holdsAccount one or more gmeow:OnlineAccounts, each on a
# gmeow:OnlineService. Decentralized identities are first-class: a Mastodon
# account carries its gmeow:activityPubActor URI, a Nostr account its
# gmeow:nostrPubkey and gmeow:nip05 handle. P10 (suppression, never deletion):
# when a service shuts down, its account is kept as gmeow:accountStatusHistorical
# — the record persists, it is not erased.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/accounts/> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ex:fediAccount a gmeow:OnlineAccount ;
    gmeow:accountName            "@dana@mastodon.social" ;
    gmeow:accountService         ex:mastodon ;
    gmeow:accountServiceHomepage <https://mastodon.social> ;
    gmeow:activityPubActor       "https://mastodon.social/users/dana"^^xsd:anyURI ;
    gmeow:accountStatus          gmeow:accountStatusActive .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:OnlineAccount, gmeow:AccountStatus

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to record an account's usage state from its holder's standpoint — active, dormant, or historical — so a retired account stays on record (P10) instead of being deleted.

Avoid when

Avoid for the service's liveness (use gmeow:serviceStatus) and avoid forcing one value in a merge — competing source- or standpoint-asserted statuses coexist, so never make it functional.

How to use

Point the OnlineAccount at a gmeow:AccountStatus individual; mark a retired account historical with a past validity period, and carry conflicting observers' statuses on the statement layer rather than collapsing them.

Scope notes

Source-variable observation, deliberately NOT functional: competing source- or standpoint-asserted statuses coexist (P9). A functional object property would force the distinct AccountStatus values to be owl:sameAs and could drive a global OWL inconsistency that halts reasoning.

Examples

ex:lillithMastodon gmeow:accountStatus gmeow:accountStatusActive.