verification status

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

The verification outcome of a signature: verified, failed, or unverified.

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:CryptographicSignature -> rdfs:Literal; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:verificationStatus from gmeow:CryptographicSignature to rdfs:Literal 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.

Software Release

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

# --- Verification is its own recorded act: the deploy gate checked the chain.
ex:verifyResult a gmeow:VerificationResult ;
    gmeow:hasVerificationStatus gmeow:verificationStatusVerified ;
    gmeow:verifiedBy            ex:relyingParty .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:CryptographicSignature

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record the outcome of checking a signature — verified, failed, or unverified — the result a verifier reached for this signature.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the algorithm used (gmeow:signatureAlgorithm) and for owner-trust in the signer (gmeow:TrustAssertion); the status is the check result, not the strength or the trust. It is functional — one outcome per signature.

How to use

• Attach the outcome literal to the signature after verifying gmeow:signingKey against a gmeow:Certification; a competing verifier's differing result is recorded as a separate signature observation rather than overwriting this one.

Examples

• ex:sig1 gmeow:verificationStatus "verified".