version role

The role or status classification this membership asserts for the member within the set — canonical, variant, latest, stable, LTS, deprecated, yanked, draft, published, revised, collected, withdrawn. NON-FUNCTIONAL: an entity may hold multiple roles from different authorities simultaneously (standpoint-indexed coexistence per Principle 9), and a role may change over time via new memberships rather than overwrite.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:versionRole from gmeow:VersionMembership to gmeow:VersionRole 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

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: versioning as an authority-scoped claim (Principle 10). A
# gmeow:VersionMembership is a reified Observation: it asserts that an entity
# (gmeow:versionMember) belongs to a gmeow:VersionSet with a gmeow:versionRole
# (canonical / stable / LTS / deprecated / yanked …) and a gmeow:versionScale
# (the size of the change), AS CLAIMED BY an authority (gmeow:membershipAuthority
# / gmeow:vantage). Membership is never overwritten: when a release's role
# changes (stable → deprecated), close the old membership's interval or mint a
# fresh one (P10). Here one release is canonical in the stable channel and, later,
# deprecated — both memberships coexist.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/versions/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- 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 .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:VersionMembership, gmeow:VersionRole

Usage Advice

Use when

Avoid when

How to use

Examples