usage authority

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

The naming / toponymic authority behind a name-usage — the gmeow:Agent (a national mapping agency, a standards body, an indigenous community, or a self-asserting individual) that confers or sanctions the appellation in this use. NON-FUNCTIONAL: joint or competing authorities coexist with no privileged claimant (anti-colonial, Principle 9), each attributable and confidence-weighted. (Introduced as namingAuthority by place-naming design; named usageAuthority for usage* consistency.)

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:NameUsage -> gmeow:Agent

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:usageAuthority from gmeow:NameUsage to gmeow:Agent when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:NameUsage, gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record the naming or toponymic authority that confers or sanctions an appellation in a usage — a mapping agency, standards body, indigenous community, or self-asserting individual that backs the claim.

Avoid when

• Avoid conflating the authority (who asserts/sanctions the usage, a standpoint frame) with gmeow:usageAudience (who the name is used toward) and avoid collapsing competing authorities into one — joint and competing authorities coexist with no privileged claimant (Principle 9).

How to use

• Add one or more gmeow:usageAuthority agents to a NameUsage (non-functional), attributing and confidence-weighting each; for a refuting standpoint, mint a coexisting usage carrying its own gmeow:accordingTo rather than overriding.

Examples

• ex:naming gmeow:usageAuthority ex:indigenousCouncil.