carrier type

The archaeological or cultural-heritage classification of a physical carrier — a value vocabulary individual from gmeow:PhysicalCarrierType. Non-functional: a carrier may be classified plurally by different standpoints (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:PhysicalObject -> gmeow:PhysicalCarrierType

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:carrierType from gmeow:PhysicalObject to gmeow:PhysicalCarrierType 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.

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:tablet a gmeow:PhysicalObject ;
    rdfs:label              "Clay tablet AO-3"@en ;
    gmeow:carrierType       gmeow:carrierTablet ;
    gmeow:carrierInscription ex:inscription .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:PhysicalObject, gmeow:PhysicalCarrierType