usage register

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

The social register of a name-usage (formal, intimate, professional, casual) — a gmeow:NameRegister value individual.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:NameUsage -> gmeow:NameRegister; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:usageRegister from gmeow:NameUsage to gmeow:NameRegister 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.

Person Names

• Source: slices/core/names/examples/person-names.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-names-examples-person-names

ex:usageRobFriends a gmeow:NameUsage ;
    gmeow:usageNamed ex:robin ;
    gmeow:usageAppellation ex:nickRob ;
    gmeow:usageRegister gmeow:registerIntimate .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:NameUsage, gmeow:NameRegister

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record the social register of a gmeow:NameUsage — whether the name is used formally, intimately, professionally, or casually.

Avoid when

• Avoid carrying register on the appellation itself (register is a fact of the USE, not of the name) and avoid inventing a free-text register — reference a gmeow:NameRegister value individual.

How to use

• Set gmeow:usageRegister once per NameUsage (functional) to a gmeow:NameRegister individual; mint one (formal, intimate, professional, casual) per (appellation, audience, register) tuple of a usage.

Examples

• ex:usageFamily gmeow:usageRegister gmeow:registerIntimate.