contribution degree

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

The degree or weight of the contribution — lead, equal, or supporting. Optional (≤1 per Contribution). A value from the open gmeow:ContributionDegree vocabulary.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Contribution -> gmeow:ContributionDegree; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:contributionDegree from gmeow:Contribution to gmeow:ContributionDegree when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Contribution, gmeow:ContributionDegree

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use inside a gmeow:Contribution to weight a credit as lead, equal, or supporting — for credit ordering and first-author/lead-maintainer distinctions.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it to rank contributors as a privileged winner (Principle 9 — competing orderings are standpoint-indexed) and omit it entirely when degree is unknown; it is optional.

How to use

• Point the Contribution at one gmeow:ContributionDegree individual; leave it absent rather than guessing a degree, and carry disputed orderings on the statement layer.

Examples

• ex:c1 gmeow:contributionDegree gmeow:degreeLead.