certification level

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

How carefully the binding was verified (OpenPGP certification level): generic, persona, casual, or positive.

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:Certification -> rdfs:Literal; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:certificationLevel from gmeow:Certification to rdfs:Literal 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.

Web Of Trust

• Source: slices/core/trust/examples/web-of-trust.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-trust-examples-web-of-trust

# --- Alice signs Bob's key, certifying the key↔identity binding.
ex:cert a gmeow:Certification ;
    gmeow:certifier         ex:alice ;
    gmeow:certifiedKey      ex:bobKey ;
    gmeow:certifiedIdentity ex:bob ;
    gmeow:certificationLevel "positive" .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Certification

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: wot

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 record how carefully a certifier verified the binding — the OpenPGP certification level (generic, persona, casual, positive) that signals the rigour behind the attestation.

Avoid when

• Avoid conflating it with owner-trust in the certifier (that is gmeow:trustLevel on a gmeow:TrustAssertion) — certification level is the care taken in this one binding, not how much the certifier is trusted as an introducer. It is functional.

How to use

• Attach one OpenPGP level literal to the certification; let a relying party weigh it together with their own perspectival gmeow:TrustAssertion about the certifier rather than computing transitive validity here.

Examples

• ex:cert1 gmeow:certificationLevel "positive".