membership interval

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

The time interval over which this version membership / role claim holds. A relator carries its period this way (matching gmeow:usageInterval, gmeow:taggingInterval, gmeow:relationshipInterval) rather than via gmeow:duringInterval, which is reserved for gufo:Situation-based time-scoped relations.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:VersionMembership -> gmeow:TimeInterval

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:membershipInterval from gmeow:VersionMembership to gmeow:TimeInterval 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.

Release Channels

• Source: slices/core/versions/examples/release-channels.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-versions-examples-release-channels

# --- The membership claim: 1.0.0 is the canonical, major release in the stable
#     channel, as asserted by the maintainer.
ex:canonicalMembership a gmeow:VersionMembership ;
    gmeow:versionMember       ex:release100 ;
    gmeow:versionSet          ex:stableChannel ;
    gmeow:versionRole         gmeow:roleCanonical ;
    gmeow:versionScale        gmeow:scaleMajor ;
    gmeow:membershipAuthority ex:maintainer ;
    gmeow:vantage             ex:maintainer ;
    gmeow:membershipInterval  ex:canonicalPeriod .

# --- A LATER claim, not an overwrite: the same release is now deprecated. The
#     two memberships coexist; their gmeow:membershipIntervals make the order
#     machine-readable — canonical until 2026-06-01, deprecated from then on (P10).
ex:deprecatedMembership a gmeow:VersionMembership ;
    gmeow:versionMember       ex:release100 ;
    gmeow:versionSet          ex:stableChannel ;
    gmeow:versionRole         gmeow:roleDeprecated ;
    gmeow:membershipAuthority ex:maintainer ;
    gmeow:vantage             ex:maintainer ;
    gmeow:membershipInterval  ex:deprecatedPeriod .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:VersionMembership, gmeow:TimeInterval

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to bound a membership / role claim in time — the window over which a version held 'latest', 'stable', or 'deprecated' according to its authority.

Avoid when

• Avoid gmeow:duringInterval here (that is reserved for gufo:Situation-based relations) and avoid mutating an interval to flip a role; close the old membership and mint a fresh one (Principle 10).

How to use

• Point it at a gmeow:TimeInterval; when a role changes, leave the old membership with its closed interval and add a new membership for the new period.

Examples

• ex:m1 gmeow:membershipInterval ex:y2024to2025.