canonicalized identity

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

The current self-asserted agent to which a historical AuthorIdentity is understood to refer. Old and new identities coexist as co-equal standpoints, never merged by identical identity (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:AuthorIdentity -> gmeow:Agent

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:canonicalizedIdentity from gmeow:AuthorIdentity to gmeow:Agent 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.

Commit History

• Source: slices/extensions/software/examples/commit-history.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-software-examples-commit-history

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a commit DAG with identity canonicalization and build provenance
# Commits form a directed graph via gmeow:commitAncestor. Each commit's
# author is recorded as a gmeow:AuthorIdentity — the as-committed git identity
# (one of possibly many emails) — which gmeow:canonicalizedIdentity resolves to
# the real gmeow:Agent, so "same person, three git emails" is one agent without
# rewriting history. A gmeow:BuildActivity ties a source commit (gmeow:buildSource)
# to the gmeow:Distribution it produced (gmeow:buildOutput): verifiable provenance
# from source to artifact.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/software/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- The author's git identity, canonicalized to the real agent.
ex:danaGitId a gmeow:AuthorIdentity ;
    gmeow:canonicalizedIdentity ex:dana .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:AuthorIdentity, gmeow:Agent

Projects To

Linkages

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

Projection Coverage