version scale

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

The scale classification of this membership — trivial, minor, major. NON-FUNCTIONAL: different authorities or schemes may classify the same change differently; those claims coexist.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:versionScale from gmeow:VersionMembership to gmeow:VersionScale 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

# 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:VersionScale

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to classify the magnitude of a version change — trivial, minor, major — for SemVer-style schemes and their non-software analogues.

Avoid when

• Avoid treating it as the role of the version (that is gmeow:versionRole) and avoid forcing one scale per change; rival scheme classifications coexist, so keep it non-functional.

How to use

• Reference a seeded gmeow:VersionScale individual on the membership relator; carry a competing scheme's classification as its own membership claim.

Examples

• ex:m1 gmeow:versionScale gmeow:scaleMajor.