via selector

An optional pinpoint selector into the cited work — a page, text position, text quote, or locator. Non-functional: a citation may reference multiple selectors (e.g. several pages).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:CitationAct -> gmeow:Selector

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:viaSelector from gmeow:CitationAct to gmeow:Selector 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.

Citation Act

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: citation is flat-first, reified on demand ( P4 — the same
# promotion pattern as rights). A bare gmeow:cites edge covers "A references B".
# When the citation's INTENT and exact LOCATION matter, it is promoted to a
# gmeow:CitationAct relator binding gmeow:citingEntity × gmeow:citedEntity ×
# gmeow:citationIntent, pinned to a precise gmeow:Selector (page + verbatim quote)
# via gmeow:viaSelector. gmeow:cites pairsWith gmeow:CitationAct: the flat edge
# and its reification name the same fact at two levels of detail.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/citations/> .

# --- The reified act: not just THAT it cites, but WHY (uses a method from it)
#     and WHERE (the exact passage the method appears in).
ex:cite1 a gmeow:CitationAct ;
    gmeow:citingEntity   ex:myPaper ;
    gmeow:citedEntity    ex:citedPaper ;
    gmeow:citationIntent gmeow:intentUsesMethodIn ;
    gmeow:viaSelector    ex:sel1 .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:CitationAct, gmeow:Selector

Usage Advice

Use when

Avoid when

How to use

Examples