broader tag

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

A broader, more general tag. Transitive. Optional: folksonomy stays flat-first.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Tag -> gmeow:Tag

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:broaderTag from gmeow:Tag to gmeow:Tag 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.

Folksonomy

• Source: slices/core/tags/examples/folksonomy.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-tags-examples-folksonomy

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: tagging is flat-first, reified on demand ( P4). A bare
# gmeow:hasTag covers "this is tagged X". Tags themselves form a SKOS-style poly-
# hierarchy (gmeow:broaderTag / gmeow:narrowerTag / gmeow:relatedTag) inside a
# gmeow:TagScheme. When the PROVENANCE of a tagging matters — who applied it, in
# which scheme — it is promoted to a reified gmeow:Tagging relator binding tagger
# × tagged × tag × scheme, so a contested or machine-applied tag is auditable.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/tags/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:tagML a gmeow:Tag ;
    rdfs:label      "machine-learning"@en ;
    gmeow:tagInScheme ex:scheme ;
    gmeow:broaderTag ex:tagAI ;
    gmeow:relatedTag ex:tagNLP .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Tag

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: skos

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 to layer optional hierarchy onto a folksonomy — point a specific tag at a more general one when a controlled-vocabulary structure is worth having (the counterpart of skos:broader).

Avoid when

• Avoid imposing it where folksonomy should stay flat (hierarchy is optional) and avoid using it for associative, non-hierarchical links (use gmeow:relatedTag instead).

How to use

• Assert gmeow:broaderTag from the narrower tag to the broader one and let transitivity build the ladder; gmeow:narrowerTag follows as its inverse.

Examples

• ex:tagMammal gmeow:broaderTag ex:tagAnimal.