certifier

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

The agent that made a certification.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Certification -> gmeow:Agent; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:certifier from gmeow:Certification 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.

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, gmeow:Agent

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 name the agent who made a certification — the WoT signer vouching for the key↔identity binding.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the identity the binding is about (that is gmeow:certifiedIdentity) and for the key vouched for (gmeow:certifiedKey); the certifier is who attests, not what is attested. It is functional — one certifier per certification.

How to use

• Bind exactly one gmeow:Agent as certifier; model a second signer's attestation as a separate gmeow:Certification rather than a second certifier on the same one.

Examples

• ex:cert1 gmeow:certifier ex:bob.