GMEOW Accounts ModuleGMEOW Agreements ModuleGMEOW Contacts ModuleGMEOW Core ModuleGMEOW Documents ModuleGMEOW Entities ModuleGMEOW Expertise ModuleGMEOW Genealogy ModuleGMEOW Organization ModuleGMEOW Places ModuleGMEOW Provenance ModuleGMEOW Software ModuleGMEOW — Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the WebGMEOW

A written work published in a periodical, blog, or scholarly venue.

A legally enforceable agreement.

An educational or occupational credential held by an agent — a degree, certification, or license.

A collection of data published as a unit.

A bounded textual or digital document — a file, record, or report.

A contact point reachable via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

A kinship group of persons related by descent, marriage, or adoption.

The event of two persons entering into marriage, with a date and place.

An image, audio, or video media file.

A granted or filed patent describing an invention.

A contact point reachable by physical mail at a postal address.

A software process or autonomous program that acts on behalf of a person or organization.

A contact point reachable by telephone.

A page on the web identified by a URL.

Something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities — creating, transforming, using, or attributing them.

A collection of agents treated as a unit without the formal structure of an organization.

• gufo:Collection
• Entity ^c

The reified relationship by which an agent is a member of an organization, optionally playing a role over a period of time.

A kind of work or profession, such as those classified by ESCO or SOC.

A version-control repository holding the source code of a software project.

A function or position an agent plays in some context, such as a job title or organizational role.

A competency or ability an agent possesses.

A structured group of agents — a company, institution, association, or governmental body — able to act as a single agent.

A mutual understanding between two or more agents that creates obligations or rights, reified as a relator connecting its parties.

A geographic point expressed as latitude and longitude.

• latitude ^dp
• longitude ^dp

An entity whose nature is to carry information content: a document, dataset, software artifact, online account, or message. The shared parent of the document, software and account layers.

• gufo:Object
• Entity ^c

• Repository ^c
• Online Account ^c
• Creative Work ^c

A geographic location: a country, city, building, or point of interest.

• gufo:Object
• Entity ^c

• contained in place ^op
• has coordinates ^op

A software project: a body of source code developed and released as a unit, with repositories, releases, and contributors.

• developer ^op
• has repository ^op
• programming language ^dp

A means of reaching an agent: an email address, telephone number, or postal address.

• gufo:Object
• Entity ^c

• Email Address ^c
• Postal Address ^c
• Telephone Number ^c

An account an agent holds with an online service — a social profile, code-forge account, or decentralized identity.

• account name ^dp
• ActivityPub actor ^dp
• NIP-05 identifier ^dp
• Nostr public key ^dp

An information artifact resulting from creative or intellectual effort — a document, article, dataset, media object, or web page.

• date published ^dp
• has author ^op
• identifier ^dp
• title ^dp

• Article ^c
• Dataset ^c
• Document ^c
• Media Object ^c
• Patent ^c
• Web Page ^c
• Software Project ^c

An individual human being, living or deceased.

• family name ^dp
• given name ^dp
• has child ^op
• has occupation ^op
• has sibling ^op
• has spouse ^op
• has parent ^op

• has child ^op
• has sibling ^op
• has spouse ^op
• has parent ^op

Anything in the GMEOW universe of discourse that persists in time and can bear properties: an agent, a document, a contact point, and so on.

• name ^dp
• was attributed to ^op
• was generated by ^op

• Credential ^c
• Group ^c
• Occupation ^c
• Skill ^c
• Geo Coordinates ^c
• Information Object ^c
• Place ^c
• Contact Point ^c
• Agent ^c

An entity that can act, bear responsibility, and enter into agreements: a person, an organization, or a software agent.

• gufo:FunctionalComplex
• Entity ^c

• email ^dp
• has agreement ^op
• has contact point ^op
• has met ^op
• has skill ^op
• has used ^op
• has worked with ^op
• holds account ^op
• telephone ^dp
• member of ^op

• developer ^op
• has author ^op
• has member ^op
• has met ^op
• has party ^op
• has worked with ^op
• was attributed to ^op

• Software Agent ^c
• Organization ^c
• Person ^c

Relates a place to a larger place that geographically contains it; transitive.

Relates a software project to an agent that develops it.

Relates an agent to an agreement it is party to.

Relates a creative work to an agent chiefly responsible for creating its intellectual content.

Relates a person to a child; the inverse of hasParent.

Relates an agent to a means of contacting it.

Relates a place to its geographic coordinates.

Relates an organization to one of its member agents; the inverse of memberOf.

Records that two agents have met; symmetric.

Relates a person to an occupation they hold or have held.

Relates an agreement to an agent that is bound by it.

Relates a software project to a source-code repository.

Relates a membership to the role the member plays.

Relates a person to a sibling; symmetric.

Relates an agent to a skill it possesses.

Relates a person to a spouse; symmetric.

Records that an agent has used some entity (a tool, service, or work).

Records that two agents have worked together; symmetric.

Relates an agent to an online account it holds.

Ascribes responsibility for an entity to an agent.

Relates an entity to the activity that produced it.

Relates a person to a parent (biological, adoptive, or social).

Relates an agent to an organization it belongs to.

The handle or user name identifying the account on its service.

The ActivityPub actor IRI of a federated-social account.

The date a creative work was published or issued.

An email address at which an agent can be reached.

A person's family (last) name.

A person's given (first) name.

A formal identifier of a creative work, such as a DOI or patent number.

The latitude of a geographic point in decimal degrees.

The longitude of a geographic point in decimal degrees.

The name by which an entity is known.

A Nostr NIP-05 identifier (user@domain) verifying a Nostr account against a domain.

The Nostr public key (npub / hex) identifying a decentralized-identity account.

A programming language a software project is written in.

A telephone number at which an agent can be reached.

The title of a creative work.

Confidence in a claim, in the closed interval [0,1], attached to the statement it qualifies.

Relative import/source importance of a claim on a 0–10 scale; projection takes the maximum across imports.

The source property a claim was derived from during ingestion, recorded for mapping-step audit.