GMEOW Employment Module

• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/employment
• Tier: extension
• Group: extensions

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 21 terms and contributes 17 mapping or projection rows. Use it when its terms match the native fact you want to preserve; use the linkage tables to see how those facts leave GMEOW for consumer vocabularies.

Dependencies

• gmeow:slices/entities
• gmeow:slices/kernel
• gmeow:slices/observations
• gmeow:slices/organization
• gmeow:slices/temporal

Consumers

• CV/employment claims over organization and agreements; the mail corpus's signatures.

Local Map

Examples

Job

• Source: slices/extensions/employment/examples/job.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:Employment, gmeow:Membership, gmeow:Occupation, gmeow:Organization, gmeow:Person, gmeow:employmentOccupation, gmeow:employmentSeniority, gmeow:employmentType, gmeow:employmentTypeFullTime, gmeow:membershipMember

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# Worked example: employment specializes membership. A gmeow:Employment is
# a gmeow:Membership (the person is a member of the employer), refined with the
# facets a job adds: an open gmeow:employmentType (full-time / contract / intern /
# volunteer …), a gmeow:employmentSeniority, the gmeow:employmentOccupation it
# realizes, and its gmeow:employmentInterval. The seat-vs-sitter discipline from
# the organization slice still holds — this is the SITTER's tenure, distinct from
# any Post it may fill.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/employment/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:dana a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "Dana Reyes"@en .
ex:acme a gmeow:Organization ; gmeow:name "Acme Robotics Inc."@en .

ex:engineer a gmeow:Occupation ; rdfs:label "Software Engineer"@en .

# --- The employment: a membership of Acme, refined with employment facets.
ex:job a gmeow:Employment ;
    gmeow:membershipMember       ex:dana ;
    gmeow:membershipOrganization ex:acme ;
    gmeow:employmentType         gmeow:employmentTypeFullTime ;
    gmeow:employmentSeniority    gmeow:senioritySenior ;
    gmeow:employmentOccupation   ex:engineer .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Linkages

• Rows: 17
• Projection profiles: org, resume
• External vocabularies: esco, org, rdf, schema, wdt

Guide

Employment — tenure, compensation, and career as reified membership

Slice: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/employment · tier: extension The ResumeRDF / Europass / schema.org / ESCO / CTDL superset layer — one relator, many projections.

Employment is not a new primitive; it is a Membership — a reified gufo:Relator connecting an agent to an organization, optionally founded on an Agreement (Principle 4: reuse the spine, add only the facets). The structural skeleton (member, organization, role, period) is inherited; this slice adds the employment-specific facets — type, compensation, seniority, occupation. Flat-first, reify on demand: a flat gmeow:memberOf covers the 80 % case; promote to gmeow:Employment when type, compensation, seniority, or provenance matters. Career events (hiring, promotion, transfer, resignation, termination) are value individuals in the universal EventType vocabulary, never subclasses (Principle 9).

The standpoint doctrine applies with full force: disputed tenure, rival role claims, and contested terminations are standpoint-indexed claims that coexist, none privileged (Principle 9) — two accordingTo-annotated memberOf triples, or two reified Employment relators each carrying gmeow:accordingTo. There is no employment-specific dispute mechanism, no primaryEmployment, no preferredJob — only the cross-cutting standpoint facility. A withdrawn employment record sets gmeow:displayable false, never deletion (Principle 10). Its Principle-15 consumer, declared in the manifest: CV/employment claims over organization and agreements, and the mail corpus's signatures — a signature block ("Jane Doe, Senior Engineer, Acme") is exactly one flat-or-reified employment claim from the vantage of the message.

The relator

gmeow:Employment

A Membership subkind: agent, organization, and role inherited; type, compensation, seniority, and occupation added here. Relator mediation is axiomatized (EL someValuesFrom: an Employment has a type, a member Agent, and an Organization) so the doctrine is reasoner-visible; closed-world cardinality belongs to SHACL (gmeow-shapes.ttl).

gmeow:employmentInterval

The tenure: Employment → TimeInterval, matching participationInterval and membershipInterval (relators carry their period this way; duringInterval is reserved for gufo:Situation-based time-scoped relations). Open-ended — no end instant — when the employment is current. Contested dates are coexisting standpoint-indexed intervals.

The facet vocabularies (Principle 9 — values, never subclasses)

gmeow:EmploymentType

The kind of employment: seeds employmentTypeFullTime, …PartTime, …Contract, …Intern, …Freelance, …Volunteer, …Apprentice. Open: a kind not among the seeds is a fresh individual with a label, never an Employment subclass.

gmeow:employmentType

Functional pointer to the type — one canonical type at a time. A change of type is a new employment record or a standpoint-indexed claim, never an in-place overwrite.

gmeow:SeniorityLevel

The rank: seeds seniorityEntry, seniorityMid, senioritySenior, seniorityLead, seniorityExecutive. Deliberately orthogonal to both employment type and role — a part-time executive and a full-time intern are both expressible without a combinatorial class explosion.

gmeow:employmentSeniority

Functional: one canonical seniority at a time; a promotion is a new employment record or a standpoint-indexed claim — which is also how the promotion event (an EventType value) and the resulting record stay distinct.

The cross-slice facets

gmeow:employmentRole

The job title or function, specializing the universal gmeow:hasRole. Functional per employment; rival role claims are rival relators, not multiple values.

gmeow:employmentOccupation

The occupation drawn from an open external vocabulary (ESCO, SOC). Functional: one canonical occupation per record; an agent with several occupations has several employment records.

gmeow:employmentCompensation

Employment → MonetaryAmount — compensation always carries its explicit currency reference frame (Principle 11: an amount without its frame is meaningless). Non-functional by design: raises, bonuses, and multi-currency arrangements are co-equal standpoint-indexed claims over time, not a single overwritten salary field.

Solver layer & alignment

Career-trajectory queries — tenure overlap, gap detection, seniority progression — are solver-layer computations over employmentInterval and the temporal slice's clocks (Principle 12); the OWL core asserts records, not timelines. Alignment to the superset sources (ResumeRDF, Europass, schema.org EmployeeRole, ESCO, CTDL) is the projection layer's concern: each is a lossy down-projection of the relator, deferred until its consumer is live.

Dependencies

Depends on kernel, entities, observations, organization (Membership, Role, Agreement), and temporal (TimeInterval). Reuses MonetaryAmount, Occupation, Credential, Skill, and LanguageProficiency from their home slices without redefinition.