emsenn vocabulary
Custom predicates used across emsenn.net's research library where standard vocabularies (schema.org, SKOS, Dublin Core Terms, PROV, RDFS) lack a clean fit. Standard predicates are preferred wherever they apply; this vocabulary covers what's left.
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Predicates
emsenn:centralThesis- The defining claim or analytic move of a school of thought — the single sentence that captures what makes the school distinct from its neighbors.
emsenn:teleology- The aim or goal of a domain — what practitioners of this domain are trying to understand or accomplish.
emsenn:method- The characteristic methodology of a domain — how its practitioners do their work.
emsenn:featuredText- A curated key text within a domain, surfaced on the domain's index page with its description inlined. Object resolves to a CreativeWork in the domain's texts/ subsection.
emsenn:keyFigure- A person whose work centrally informs this school or domain.
emsenn:locates- A page-typing predicate. Values are tokens drawn from a closed vocabulary: domain, school, discipline, topic, lineage, term, concept, definition, text, paper, person.
emsenn:introduces- A page-typing predicate similar to emsenn:locates, used when the page introduces a structural category (e.g. 'discipline', 'lineage') rather than locating itself within one.
emsenn:governs- Subject exercises governance, regulation, or control over object. Inverse of emsenn:governedBy.
emsenn:governedBy- Subject is under the governance, regulation, or control of object. Inverse of emsenn:governs.
emsenn:produces- Subject brings object into existence as an effect, output, or consequence. Inverse of emsenn:producedBy.
emsenn:producedBy- Subject is brought into existence by object. Inverse of emsenn:produces.
emsenn:actsOn- Subject takes action upon, transforms, or operates on object.
emsenn:addresses- Subject takes object as a topic, problem, or concern that it engages with.
emsenn:restricts- Subject limits, constrains, or specializes object.
emsenn:enables- Subject makes object possible, creates the conditions under which object can occur.
emsenn:analogousTo- Subject and object share structural similarity sufficient that insight from one transfers to the other, without subject being a kind of object or vice versa.
emsenn:contrastsWith- Subject is meaningfully understood by comparison with object, where the differences are themselves analytically productive.
emsenn:domain- The mathematical domain of a function or operation. Distinct from emsenn:locates which classifies pages.
emsenn:codomain- The mathematical codomain of a function or operation.
emsenn:maps- The mapping relationship between elements of a domain and codomain.
emsenn:composesWith- Subject can be composed with object via the standard composition operation appropriate to their type (function composition, morphism composition, etc.).
emsenn:specialization- A more specific page-type than emsenn:locates allows; values include 'relation', 'letter', 'babble', etc.
emsenn:mathematicalObject- Categorial typing for a mathematical concept (e.g. 'category', 'functor', 'morphism'). Used as both a relation and a self-tag on math term pages.
emsenn:form- A page-typing predicate for content shape (e.g. 'index', 'narrative', 'reference').
emsenn:publishTo- A list of publication surfaces the page is approved for. Values are surface identifiers like 'emsenn-net'.