GMEOW Documents Module

• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/documents
• Tier: core
• Group: core

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 66 terms and contributes 186 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/creative-works
• gmeow:slices/kernel
• gmeow:slices/names
• gmeow:slices/observations
• gmeow:slices/places
• gmeow:slices/standpoint
• gmeow:slices/tags

Consumers

• Creative-works manifestations, the mail corpus attachments, depictions of any entity.

Local Map

Examples

Web Presence

• Source: slices/core/documents/examples/web-presence.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:Expression, gmeow:Person, gmeow:ProfilePage, gmeow:WebPage, gmeow:WebSite, gmeow:Work, gmeow:embodies, gmeow:name, gmeow:pageOfSite, gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a web presence on the WEMI spine. A WebSite and
# its WebPages are concrete gmeow:Manifestations — so each embodies an Expression
# that realizes a Work, the same four-tier backing every published artifact
# carries. Pages belong to the site via gmeow:pageOfSite (⊑ partOf). The about
# page names a person as its gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject (⊑ isAbout), which makes
# it a gmeow:ProfilePage by INFERENCE — ProfilePage is a defined class (any
# WebPage whose principal subject is an Agent), so no manual typing is needed.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/documents/> .

# --- The WEMI backing the whole site shares: one Work, one Expression.
ex:siteWork a gmeow:Work ;
    gmeow:title "Blackcat Informatics® website"@en .

ex:siteContent a gmeow:Expression ;
    gmeow:realizes ex:siteWork .

# --- The site (a Manifestation) and its pages (also Manifestations), each
#     embodying the shared Expression.
ex:site a gmeow:WebSite ;
    gmeow:embodies ex:siteContent .

ex:homepage a gmeow:WebPage ;
    gmeow:pageOfSite ex:site ;
    gmeow:embodies ex:siteContent .

# --- The about page: its principal subject is a person, so it IS a ProfilePage
#     (≡ WebPage ⊓ ∃pagePrincipalSubject.Agent) without being typed as one.
ex:aboutMara a gmeow:WebPage ;
    gmeow:pageOfSite ex:site ;
    gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject ex:mara ;
    gmeow:embodies ex:siteContent .

ex:mara a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:name "Mara Okafor"@en .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Linkages

• Rows: 186
• Projection profiles: bibframe, bibo, dcat, dcterms, doap, exif, foaf, iiif, oai_dc, schema-org, sioc, vcard
• External vocabularies: bibframe, bibo, cc, dc, dcat, dcmitype, dcterms, doap, exif, foaf, gxv, iiif, pav, prov, qb, rdf, schema, sioc, vcard, wd

Guide

Documents — works, releases, segments, and the depiction spine

Slice: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/documents · tier: core The everyday creative-work vocabulary: what got written, released, segmented, titled, and pictured.

Creative works and document metadata — articles, patents, datasets, media, web pages (the schema.org / BIBO / BIBFRAME superset layer).

This slice furnishes the working subkinds of the four-tier WEMI spine: gmeow:Document, gmeow:Article, gmeow:Patent, gmeow:Dataset, gmeow:LiteraryWork, gmeow:SerialWork, gmeow:Collection, and gmeow:Service specialize gmeow:Work (the abstract creation); gmeow:MediaObject, gmeow:WebPage, gmeow:BookRelease, and gmeow:SerialInstallment specialize gmeow:Manifestation (the concrete artifact). The umbrella gmeow:CreativeWork is a Category, not a Kind — identity criteria live on the tiers, never on the umbrella.

Aboutness is kept honest by the tags-slice trichotomy (Principle 9): rdf:type says what a thing is, gmeow:hasTag says what someone labelled it, and gmeow:isAbout says what it concerns — three axes, property-disjoint, never collapsed. gmeow:depicts is the image-shaped arm of isAbout, and gmeow:ContentSegment gives every work structural decomposition without inventing per-genre part classes. Reading order, finally, is a standpoint (gmeow:ReadingOrder) — publication order and internal chronology coexist as subjective orderings, never canonical truth.

Works and their structure

gmeow:CreativeWork

The abstract umbrella Category for intellectual and artistic creations across the WEMI spine. Formerly a flat Kind (pre WEMI spine); now a Category so each of the four tiers beneath it can be a gufo:Kind with its own identity criteria. Carries the flat metadata properties (gmeow:title, gmeow:identifier, gmeow:datePublished, the DC date and description refinements).

gmeow:ContentSegment

A structural part of a work, release, or installment — chapter, section, scene, episode — a genuine Kind whose identity is position-and-type within a containing whole. One class for all segments: the kind of segment is a value, never a subclass.

gmeow:hasSegment · gmeow:segmentOf

The segment mereology, specializing the universal gmeow:hasPart/gmeow:partOf spine. segmentOf is transitive — a scene of a chapter of a book is a segment of the book; hasSegment is its non-functional inverse.

gmeow:segmentType · gmeow:segmentIndex

Per-segment classification and position: segmentType points (functionally) into the open gmeow:ContentSegmentType value vocabulary (chapter, section, scene, paragraph, front matter, back matter — seeds, not a closed enum, Principle 9); segmentIndex is a 1-based-by-convention integer.

gmeow:CreativeWorkTitle · gmeow:hasTitle

The structured title: an Appellation subkind carrying its own gmeow:nameLanguage and gmeow:nameScript, so co-equal multilingual titles ("The Matrix" / "黑客帝国") are separate first-class objects — never alternateName subordinates, none primary (Principle 9). Superseded titles set gmeow:displayable false instead of being deleted (Principle 10). The flat gmeow:title literal remains the 80 %-case shortcut.

gmeow:ReadingOrder

A gmeow:Standpoint subkind that supplies a subjective consumption ordering for the segments of a work — publication order, internal chronology, author-recommended, fandom. Claims are annotated gmeow:accordingTo a ReadingOrder; no order is ever ontology truth.

Syndicated content

gmeow:FeedPosting · gmeow:feedPostingKind · gmeow:quotesContent · gmeow:sharesContent · gmeow:DataFeed

The syndication surface (MoveAction projection). A gmeow:FeedPosting is a short-form work published to a feed or platform — its kind (gmeow:feedPostingKind: social / blog / microblog) is an open value, never a subclass (P9), and drives the schema split (schema:SocialMediaPosting vs schema:BlogPosting). gmeow:quotesContent (with the inline gmeow:quotedText) becomes schema:Quotation + schema:citation; gmeow:sharesContent is the repost/boost edge → schema:sharedContent / sioc:links_to. A gmeow:DataFeed is a published ordered item stream (RSS/Atom/JSON Feed, a timeline) whose members ride the hasPart spine → schema:DataFeed / dataFeedElement / DataFeedItem. FeedPostings resolve the email slice's declared SIOC partiality: a posting IS a sioc:Post, so email is no longer SIOC's only consumer. (gmeow:Posting in the finance slice is an unrelated ledger term — the feed posting is deliberately FeedPosting.)

Web presence

gmeow:WebSite · gmeow:pageOfSite · gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject · gmeow:ProfilePage

The web-presence model. A gmeow:WebSite is the published collection; a gmeow:WebPage belongs to it via gmeow:pageOfSite (a subproperty of partOf, so site membership rides the universal mereology — the discrete hierarchy a breadcrumb trail walks). gmeow:pagePrincipalSubject (functional, a subproperty of isAbout) names the one entity a page principally represents. gmeow:ProfilePage is a defined class — any WebPage whose pagePrincipalSubject is a gmeow:Agent — so schema:ProfilePage / schema:WebSite / schema:mainEntityOfPage and the BreadcrumbList/ListItem walk all derive structurally, never from stored navigation config.

gmeow:contentLanguage

The natural language of a work's body — distinct from the names slice's per-appellation language tag, which is the language of a name. Non-functional (a multilingual work has several); projects to schema:inLanguage / schema:iso6391Code by reconstructing the BCP-47 / ISO 639-1 code from the gmeow:Language.

Manifestations and the image-depiction spine

gmeow:MediaObject

An image, audio, or video file — a concrete Manifestation carrying the technical metadata of the design: gmeow:pixelWidth/gmeow:pixelHeight (functional), gmeow:imageOrientation (EXIF degrees — the transform math is solver work, Principle 12), gmeow:captureTime (non-functional: EXIF and catalogue claims coexist with confidence), and gmeow:captureDevice. Declares [gmeow:requiresFrame](../reference/properties/gmeow-requiresFrame.md) [gmeow:colourspace](../reference/properties/gmeow-colourspace.md) at warning severity (Principle 11).

gmeow:depicts · gmeow:depictedIn

The flat depiction foundation (gathered here by the dependency refactor): any MediaObject can depict any Entity with zero image machinery, as a subproperty of gmeow:isAbout. The pair gmeow:pairsWith the gmeow:DepictionUsage relator in the images extension — promote when context, audience, period, confidence, or evidence of the depiction matters (regions and scene graphs live there too).

gmeow:colourspace

The colourspace reference frame of a media object's pixel values — sRGB, Adobe RGB, CMYK — a subproperty of gmeow:hasReferenceFrame (Principle 11: a pixel value is meaningless without its frame). Deliberately not OWL-functional so merged standpoints never trigger owl:sameAs collapse; single-valuedness is SHACL's job.

gmeow:BookRelease · gmeow:SerialInstallment

Concrete publication artifacts: an edition or release of a book, and a single issue, episode, or chapter of a serial. Both are out-of-universe, rights-bearing Manifestations, held strictly apart from any in-universe narrative frame they source (linked via gmeow:sourceFor).

Solver layer & alignment

Pixel-space computation — orientation transforms, colourspace conversion, derived thumbnails — belongs to the solver layer (Principle 12); the slice records the claims and their frames. The slice supersets schema.org, BIBO, and BIBFRAME by reference (Principle 5): aligned to, never imported.

Dependencies

Depends on kernel, creative-works (the WEMI spine), names (Appellation), observations, places, standpoint (ReadingOrder), and tags (the isAbout trichotomy). Consumed by creative-works manifestations, the mail-corpus attachments, and depictions of any entity.