The LIBRORUM Ontology

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LIBRORUM describes the book as read (linguistic and observable), as produced (digital and material), with its carriers and conventions. Namespace: https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/.

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Kind

Class

:AbstractPresentationGrammar

Λ

abstract presentation grammar en · grammaire de présentation abstraite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AbstractPresentationGrammar

The relational, value-free rules in force for one book stating how each kind of unit is set apart when the book is presented to a sense. Kinds: visual, sounding, tactile. 'Different speaker for the dialogue' (sounding), 'smaller than the main text' (visual), 'emphasis marked by an indicator' (tactile).

Named 'presentation' grammar rather than bare 'grammar' because the grammar of the language is already a judged property of the linguistic book (:Grammaticality).

Class

:AbstractTactileGrammar

Λ

abstract tactile grammar en · grammaire tactile abstraite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AbstractTactileGrammar

The rules in force for one braille book stating how each kind of unit is set apart to the touch: emphasis by indicator cells (braille has no italic), headings by centring and indentation, print page numbers indicated so that references by page still agree.

SourcesBANA, Braille Formats: Principles of Print-to-Braille Transcription (2016); editorial (v0.6.11).
Class

:AnnotatingElement

Λ

annotating element en · élément d'annotation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnnotatingElement

A peritext element that is about a stretch or a point of the text (:annotates) and is optional reading: notes, contents entries, and later index entries. It needs no callout: trade-book endnotes anchored by page and lemma have none, nor do contents entries, gathered like endnotes far from their scope (v0.6.6, after Haralambous).

Class

:BackPart

Λ

back matter / end matter en · annexes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BackPart

Acknowledgments, appendices, chronology, abbreviations, glossary, notes, bibliography/references, list of contributors, illustration credits, indexes, about the author; today errata usually move online.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Book
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 82; CMOS 17, §§1.4, 1.59–1.68.
Class

:BodyPart

Λ

text / body matter en · corps du texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BodyPart

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Book
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 81; CMOS 17, §§1.3–1.4.
Class

:Caption

Λ

caption en · légende fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Caption

The text attached to an illustration or a table: as a rule its label and number ('Figure 3.', 'Table 2.'), a title, and a legend explaining it. Part of the item and annotating it (:annotates), so that an annotating element is itself annotated. Whether it stands above or below the item is the visual grammar's (:AboveAnnotatedElement, :BelowAnnotatedElement: tables usually above, illustrations below). A short form of it is quoted in the list of illustrations or of tables.

Range of:hasCaption
SourcesCMOS 17, §§3.21-3.38 (captions and legends); editorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:ChanceResolution

Λ

chance resolution en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ChanceResolution

CLOSED vocabulary: when chance is drawn. :ResolvedInProduction (once, by the typesetter or the program, the same in every copy), :ResolvedPerCopy (each printed copy differs), :ResolvedPerDisplay (each display differs: the form is never fixed, cf. :formFixedAt).

Class

:Chapter

Λ

chapter en · chapitre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Chapter

Sub-class of:Division
Equivalent tobibo:Chapter
Class

:ChapterDisplay

Λ

chapter display en · tête de chapitre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ChapterDisplay

The opening apparatus of a chapter: chapter number, chapter title, optional chapter epigraph; in multi-author books, the chapter author.

SourcesCMOS 17, §1.49ff (chapter-display); LIBRORUM.nw.
Class

:CharacterListElement

Λ

character list (dramatis personae) en · liste des personnages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CharacterListElement

List of a work's persons, invented by early printers of vernacular drama (1510s-20s, often on title pages, sometimes with role-doubling instructions) and migrated to dialogues and novels (Richardson's Grandison among the earliest novelistic instances); orders precedence and relation, casting the reader as audience.

Admitted against Genette, who dismisses character lists as 'little more than announcements' (Paratexts, p. 399); Book Parts ch. 10 demonstrates they help a text become a book. Frequently printer-made, not authorial: pair with :SenderRole.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 10 (Atkin), pp. 123-136; Genette 1997, p. 399 (dismissal).
Class

:ConcretePresentationGrammar

Λ

concrete presentation grammar en · grammaire de présentation concrète fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConcretePresentationGrammar

The effective values of one rendition in one modality: sizes and fonts, voices and rates, cells per line and lines per page.

Class

:ConcreteSoundingGrammar

Λ

concrete sounding grammar en · grammaire sonore concrète fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConcreteSoundingGrammar

The values of one sounding rendition: which voice reads what, rate, pitch, length of pauses (CSS Speech: voice-family, pause-before, cue; SSML prosody).

Class

:ConcreteTactileGrammar

Λ

concrete tactile grammar en · grammaire tactile concrète fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConcreteTactileGrammar

The values of one braille rendition: cells per line, lines per page, interpoint or single-sided, the translator's format options.

Class

:ContentsEntry

Λ

contents entry en · entrée de table des matières fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContentsEntry

An entry of a table of contents: an annotating element whose scope is a division (:annotates) and whose content is usually a title reference and a page reference to it (by title, by page), joined by leaders. Mostly computed from the divisions, it adds content of its own when it gives a title to an untitled chapter or amplifies one (Genette 1997, p. 317).

SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 316-317; editorial (v0.6.6, after Haralambous).
Class

:DeicticReference

Λ

deictic reference en · renvoi déictique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeicticReference

A reference whose referent is the place where it itself stands: the printed page number ('this page', LaTeX \thepage), the running head's title ('the division this page belongs to', \leftmark). It has no :refersTo; each typeset occurrence takes its value from its own page.

Sub-class of:Reference
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:Determinative

Λ

determinative en · déterminatif fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Determinative

A grapheme that is never phonologically realized, serving as readerly metadata for the semantic disambiguation of the word it accompanies (Mesopotamian category marks for persons, places, divinities, materials).

Test case for the graphemics core: a grapheme with no phonological correspondent.

Sub-class of:Grapheme
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:Didascalia

Λ

didascalia en · didascalie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Didascalia

An annotating element of the metatext that says, in plain language, what form a stretch of the text should take: precise or fuzzy, mathematical or poetic ('first ray of rain'; 'take some distance and weaken'; 'verse of type A'). In the linguistic book this is all there is of the form, and what the reader's mind captures by interpretation; it becomes formal in C_cont (where the abstract visual grammar interferes) and geometric in C_form. A copy mark that instructs, a style name, a TEI @rendition, a LaTeX macro encode it.

Ingarden's Nebentext, realized rather than spoken: typesetting is the performance of the book. A didascalia printed in the volume (a preface giving directions, a play's stage directions, Satie's directions in a score) is also a :PeritextElement. Not needed for conventional forms: the conventional set-off of a verse line follows from its kind through the abstract grammar, and a didascalia is written only where the author departs or names a type.

Class

:DidascalicAttestation

Λ

didascalic attestation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicAttestation

CLOSED vocabulary: :AttestedDidascalia (written by its source: Mallarmé's instructions on his proofs, his printed 'Observation'), :ReconstructedDidascalia (inferred by an editor from proofs, letters or a printed form: the 2004 reconstruction of the Vollard layout of the Coup de dés).

Class

:DidascalicJudgement

Λ

didascalic judgement en · jugement didascalique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicJudgement

A judgement that a rendition does or does not follow a didascalia (:judgedProperty :DidascalicConformity, :judgedAgainst the didascalia). Unlike a linguistic judgement it is relative to no language variety.

Sub-class of:Judgement
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:DidascalicMode

Λ

didascalic mode en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicMode

CLOSED vocabulary: :Prescriptive, :Descriptive.

Class

:DidascalicScope

Λ

didascalic scope en · portée d'une didascalie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicScope

The stretch a didascalia directs: either a contiguous span between two locations (:scopeFrom, :scopeTo), or a set of units of any levels (:scopeMember: a word form together with some graphemes, which may cut inside a word form), in the linear order of the text or in an order of their own, total or partial (:ScopePrecedence).

Class

:DiscursiveIndependence

Λdeprecated

discursive independence (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursiveIndependence

Class

:DiscursivelyDigressive

Λdeprecated

discursively digressive (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyDigressive

Class

:DiscursivelyIndependent

Λdeprecated

discursively independent (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyIndependent

Class

:DiscursivelyIntegrated

Λdeprecated

discursively integrated (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyIntegrated

Class

:DisplayItem

Λdeprecated

display item (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisplayItem

v0.6.9: withdrawn. Illustrations and tables are two symmetric classes with no common superclass of their own, as in CMOS ch. 3; 'display' suggested LaTeX's display mode (centred, between blocks), whereas an illustration or a table may stand inside a paragraph.

Class

:DisplayListEntry

Λdeprecated

display list entry (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisplayListEntry

v0.6.9: replaced by :IllustrationListEntry and :TableListEntry.

Class

:Division

Λ

division en · division fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Division

A structural unit of the text: optional introduction, one or more parts, optional conclusion, optional epilogue/afterword.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :BodyPart
Sub-classes:Chapter, :Part
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.48–1.54.
Class

:DivisionHeader

Λ

division title en · titre de division fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DivisionHeader

The title of a division (part, chapter, section), a linguistic unit of the linguistic book and part of the division it titles: it is read, quoted by :ByTitle references (:hasTitleString), and voiced in a sounding book. Genette's intertitle (:Intertitle, equivalent). Its POSITION in the linear order of the text is linguistic, not typographic: the title and its division are in sequence like graphemes, words and sentences, and no visual grammar reorders that sequence; a title after the division's content (:TerminalTitle, Debussy's Préludes, the end-titles of ancient rolls) is one the author wants read last. What the visual grammar decides is only how the title looks and, for elements more loosely connected than the linear order (notes, running heads), where they are placed.

v0.6.6 (after Haralambous): part of its division (was: part of the book), equivalent to :Intertitle, which merged two classes for one thing; :Subhead is a lower-level division title. Being equivalent to :Intertitle, it is also a peritext element in Genette's sense; both sit in the linguistic book.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Division
Equivalent to:Intertitle
Sub-classes:Subhead
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 87; Genette 1997, pp. 294ff.; editorial (v0.6.6).
Class

:EncodedDidascalia

Λ

encoded didascalia en · didascalie encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedDidascalia

A didascalia as the encoded text holds it: a style name ('verse of type A' becomes a paragraph style), a TEI @rend or <rendition>, a LaTeX macro or comment, a Word comment, or a program that carries out a didascalia of chance. Here the abstract visual grammar interferes, and the didascalia becomes formal.

Class

:EncodedPronunciation

Λ

encoded pronunciation en · prononciation encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedPronunciation

A pronunciation written into the encoded text or beside it: an SSML <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="...">, an entry of a W3C PLS lexicon, EPUB 3's ssml:ph attribute. Usually absent: the phonemes of an audiobook are computed at synthesis time, as line breaks at typesetting time.

Class

:EncodedStrophe

Λ

encoded strophe en · strophe encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedStrophe

A strophe as delimited in the encoded text: TEI <lg>, a blank line in a LaTeX verse environment, a paragraph in Word.

Class

:EncodedVerseLine

Λ

encoded verse line en · vers encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedVerseLine

A verse line as a unit of the encoded text: TEI <l>. LaTeX's \\ and HTML's <br> encode only its END, a point standing for the unit, the same lossy point-for-unit encoding as \label; in Word, Enter makes the line a paragraph and Shift+Enter a break.

Class

:ErrataListElement

Λ

errata list en · errata fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ErrataListElement

List of correction instructions ('for X read Y') referring to page/line loci of its own carrier; historically as much a rhetorical performance of accuracy as a mechanism of correction (of the 110 faults listed in the 1590 Faerie Queene, nearly half survived into 1596, which added 183 new ones). In digital publication, correction typically leaves no surface trace, dissolving the element.

Formally a sibling of :CatchwordShape: content defined by a cross-locus relation to the carrier's own text; self-referential (an implemented erratum destroys its own rationale), hence SHACL-interesting.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 19 (Smyth), pp. 251-262; previously named but unclassed in :BackPart.
Class

:Figure

Λdeprecated

figure (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Figure

v0.6.9: renamed :Illustration (CMOS ch. 3).

Equivalent to:Illustration
Class

:FolioElement

Λ

folio (printed page number) en · folio fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FolioElement

The page number as printed on the pages: one element of the linguistic book, typeset once per page, containing one deictic page reference (:DeicticReference) whose value each page supplies. Its position (head or foot, outer or centred) is set by the visual grammar.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.6, 1.12; editorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:FrontPart

Λ

front matter en · pages liminaires fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FrontPart

Preliminary matter (prelims): half title, series title / list of other works / frontispiece, title page, copyright page, dedication, epigraph, table of contents, lists of illustrations/tables, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, abbreviations, chronology, publisher's/translator's/editor's notes. NB: the introduction belongs to the text, not the front matter (CMOS 1.47).

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Book
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 80; CMOS 17, §§1.3–1.4, 1.47.
Class

:Grapheme

Λ

grapheme en · graphème fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Grapheme

Interface class; the full graphemics/graphetics core is imported from the elementary grapholinguistic ontology of Haralambous. Aligned there, not redefined here.

Class

:HeaderCell

Λ

header cell en · cellule d'en-tête fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HeaderCell

A cell that heads other cells (:heads): a column head, a row head (stub entry), a spanner over several column heads. A value cell is read with its heads.

Sub-class of:TableCell
Domain of:heads
Class

:Hemistich

Λ

hemistich en · hémistiche fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Hemistich

Half of a verse line, a unit only where a tradition makes it one: the two halves of an Arabic verse, set apart on the page with a fleuron between them.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VerseLine
Class

:Hyphenation

Λ

hyphenation (claim) en · coupure (assertion) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Hyphenation

A claim, attributed to a source, that a word form has given hyphenation points in a given variety: a dictionary entry, an orthography's rules applied to the word, an author's or editor's exception, or the output of a machine hyphenation (Liang's patterns). The written counterpart of :Pronunciation, and dependent on it where hyphenation follows pronunciation (English pres-ent, noun, and pre-sent, verb).

A claim generated by a :MachineHyphenation is what the typesetting process uses; a claim of the norm (not machine-generated) is what :HyphenationLocationShape checks against.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
Range of:judgedUnit
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:HyphenationPoint

Λ

hyphenation point en · point de coupure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HyphenationPoint

A location inside a word form, between two of its graphemes, where the word may be broken at the end of a line in a given variety. Not resident in the word form: supplied by a claim (:Hyphenation). Two claims about the same word form name the same point by its offset.

Sub-class of:Location
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:HyphenationRegime

Λ

hyphenation regime en · régime de coupure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HyphenationRegime

The rules by which the word forms of a variety are hyphenated over a period: by morphemes, by syllables, by pronunciation or by etymology, with minimal fragment lengths where the norm sets them, and with the alterations of spelling at the break where the writing system has them (:breakAlteration). Decreed as part of an orthography (:partOfOrthography; prov:wasGeneratedBy a :Decree), or described by a dictionary or a house style.

Sub-class of:JudgementBasis
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous); Amtliche Regelung der deutschen Rechtschreibung, part E (Worttrennung).
Class

:Illustration

Λ

illustration en · illustration fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Illustration

A drawing, a photograph, a diagram, a map, a musical example: an annotating element always attached to a scope (:annotates) -- a location (between two paragraphs or inside one), a paragraph, a division or the whole book (a frontispiece) -- and set with respect to it by the abstract visual grammar (:ScopePlacement, :forScope): exactly at its location, at the end of the paragraph, at the head of the next page, on a page of its own... It does not necessarily stand in the linear order of the text, and is not a float: a LaTeX float is one mechanism applying some of these rules. It has a caption (:hasCaption), is usually numbered and referred to by number ('Fig. 3': :ByNumber). Its body is not linguistic: the linguistic book holds the illustration as a unit (its scope, its caption, its number, the references to it), and what it depicts is reached in the observable book by a reading that takes marks as a picture (:perceivesAsPicture); words inside it (labels, a key) are read locally. Having no internal order, it has no point at which the text flow could break it: it is kept whole (:KeptWhole), on one page, across the two pages of an opening (:AcrossOpening, :spansGutter), or on a fold-out (:OnFoldOut).

v0.6.9: renamed from :Figure (after Haralambous, following CMOS's 'illustration'); no longer under :DisplayItem, which is withdrawn. Genette's inventory leaves illustration aside; the class makes illustrations peritext in the ontology's sense (annotating elements), not in his.

Disjoint with:Table
Domain of:hasCaption
SourcesCMOS 17, ch. 3 (illustrations and tables); Genette 1997, Conclusion (illustration left aside); editorial (v0.6.8, v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:IllustrationListEntry

Λ

entry of a list of illustrations en · entrée de la table des illustrations fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/IllustrationListEntry

An entry of a list of illustrations: an annotating element whose scope is one illustration, holding its number, its caption or a short form of it, and a page reference to it; the counterpart of a :ContentsEntry.

Class

:IndexElement

Λ

index en · index fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/IndexElement

Alphabetical list of labels with locators; unlike the table of contents (sequential, revealing the text's architecture, attested from antiquity), the index is a random-access device and an invention of the codex era. Two lineages: the word index or concordance (first Bible concordance, Paris Dominicans, begun 1230-1235, completed by 1247) and the subject index (Grosseteste's Tabula distinctionum); digital full-text search inherits from the former, not the latter.

Repairs the ToC/index asymmetry: :TableOfContents existed, the index did not, although Book Parts ch. 20 builds on precisely their contrast.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 20 (Duncan), pp. 263-274.
Class

:Intertitle

Λ

intertitle en · intertitre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Intertitle

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 294ff.
Class

:JudgedProperty

Λ

judged linguistic property en · propriété linguistique jugée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/JudgedProperty

A property of linguistic units that the ontology names but whose expectation it cannot state in full, so that it is only ever judged by a source. CLOSED vocabulary, extended only by dated decision: :Lexicality, :OrthographicCorrectness, :MorphotacticWellFormedness, :Grammaticality. Each applies to one kind of unit (:JudgedUnitLevelShape).

Class

:Judgement

Λ

judgement en · jugement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Judgement

A statement, attributed to a source, that something has or lacks a property whose expectation cannot be stated in full, so that it is judged and not checked. Two kinds: linguistic judgements on units of the linguistic book, and didascalic judgements on renditions (v0.6.10).

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:JudgementBasis

Λ

judgement basis en · référentiel de jugement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/JudgementBasis

What a judgement is made against: a dictionary (in a given edition), a word list, a descriptive or prescriptive grammar, an orthographic rulebook, a corpus, a trained model. An :Orthography may also serve directly.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
Class

:LinguisticJudgement

Λ

linguistic judgement en · jugement linguistique fr · linguistisches Urteil de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinguisticJudgement

A statement, attributed to a source, that a linguistic unit has or lacks a linguistic property (lexicality, orthographic correctness, morphotactic well-formedness, grammaticality) relative to one language variety. The value is boolean (:judgementValue) or graded (:acceptability). The ontology records judgements and does not make them: their expectation is an open competence (a lexicon, a morphology, a grammar) that it does not contain.

Judgements are relative and may disagree: to a variety (:relativeToVariety), to a norm (:judgedAgainst: a dictionary of 2000 or of 2020), to an agent (prov:wasAttributedTo) and to a date (prov:generatedAtTime). A judgement with value false is how a breach of these conventions is recorded (the eye dialect of Keyes, the reversed half of Brown's 'The End'); there is no shape to fail. It is the RESULT of an :InterpretiveAct, never an act itself: a dictionary says something about a form in general, and a judgement about an occurrence exists only once someone or something applies it there; the act is given by prov:wasGeneratedBy when known (the dictionary is the basis, the act the producer). Not to be confused with a :Realization, the other result of interpretive acts: a realization IDENTIFIES (which unit a mark is taken to be; Φ → Λ; relative to a competence; cannot be false), a judgement EVALUATES (whether a Λ unit meets a norm; relative to a stated norm and variety; false = breach). Identification precedes evaluation. Revives, in a cleaner form, the :Attribution retired in v0.5.3.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity; :Judgement
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5, after Haralambous); Neef 2015 (orthography licenses from a solution space); PROV-O 2013.
Class

:LinguisticUnit

Λ

linguistic unit en · unité linguistique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinguisticUnit

Any unit of the linguistic book's mereology, from the grapheme to the book itself, peritext elements included: the range over which references and annotations point to units of any level.

Class

:List

Λ

list en · liste fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/List

A unit of the linguistic book made of entries (:ListEntry, :hasEntry) in an order, each entry a block of its own and usually opened by a label (:ListLabel): a superblock. It stands in the linear order of the text, like a paragraph, and is not placed by the visual grammar; what the grammar decides is the cue that sets the entries apart from one another and the list apart from the text before its first entry and after its last (:EntriesSetApart, :SetOffFromRunningText), and how the label stands (:HangingLabel). Lists nest: an entry may hold a list. Part of a division, of the body, of a paragraph (a run-in list), of a peritext element, of an entry or of a table cell.

Linguistic, but locally (after Haralambous): a reader takes in some entries and their relations to the others, never the whole list at once -- as no reader holds a whole book in mind. The table of contents, the index, the errata list and the list of characters are lists (v0.6.8).

Domain of:hasEntry
SourcesCMOS 17, §§6.123-6.130 (vertical lists); editorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:ListEntry

Λ

list entry en · entrée de liste fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListEntry

One entry of a list: a block of the list's superblock, opened as a rule by its label (:hasLabel), and holding sentences (often minor, verbless sentences: 'Milk.'), paragraphs, or a nested list.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :List
Range of:hasEntry
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:ListLabel

Λ

list label en · étiquette d'entrée (numéro, puce, vedette) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListLabel

The sub-block that opens a list entry and says which entry it is or what it is about (:labelKind): a number, a symbol, or a term. A number label is a deictic reference by number: its value is the entry's own position in the list numbering, computed by LaTeX's enumerate as a page number is computed. A symbol label is the same for every entry and means, by convention, 'next entry'. A term label (a dictionary headword, a glossary term, the term of a description list) is the only one with content of its own, and it makes the list consulted rather than read.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :ListEntry
Domain of:labelKind
Range of:hasLabel
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:ListLabelKind

Λ

list label kind en · type d'étiquette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListLabelKind

CLOSED vocabulary: :NumberLabel, :SymbolLabel, :TermLabel.

Class

:ListOfDisplayItems

Λdeprecated

list of display items (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListOfDisplayItems

v0.6.9: withdrawn; :ListOfIllustrations and :ListOfTables are now directly lists.

Class

:ListOfIllustrations

Λ

list of illustrations en · table des illustrations fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListOfIllustrations

A list whose entries (:IllustrationListEntry) annotate the illustrations of the book, each quoting a number, a caption or its short form, and a page reference, as a table of contents does for divisions.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.40-1.41.
Class

:ListOfTables

Λ

list of tables en · liste des tableaux fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListOfTables

A list whose entries (:TableListEntry) annotate the tables of the book, as a list of illustrations does for illustrations.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.40-1.41.
Class

:Location

Λ

location en · emplacement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Location

An immaterial point of the linguistic book, placed between units (:afterUnit, :beforeUnit) at any level -- between two sentences, two word forms, even two graphemes -- without being a unit: it has no content, no extent and no part, and belongs to no unit (no dc:isPartOf). What a reference points to when it names no unit; encoded as a LaTeX \label or a TEI <anchor/>.

The one entity of the linguistic book with no :Realization: no reader perceives it; it is reached only through a reference's value (turn to p. 42) or, on a screen, a link. Its encoded counterpart is an :EncodedLocation, its typeset counterpart a :TypesetAnchor (a PDF named destination: coordinates without ink); the observable corner has none.

Disjoint with:LinguisticUnit
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:MetatextElement

Λ

metatext element en · élément de métatexte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MetatextElement

A unit of the linguistic book that says how the text should be realized rather than being part of what is realized: a didascalia. Metatext names what a unit does, peritext where it is; the two are not disjoint (a printed preface that gives directions is both).

Not Genette's metatextuality (the commentary of one text on another): the metatext here is the work's own direction about its realization, Ingarden's Nebentext.

Sub-classes:Didascalia
SourcesIngarden 1931 (Haupttext and Nebentext); editorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:Morpheme

Λ

morpheme en · morphème fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Morpheme

Interface class; the actual morphological segmentation of a word is imported from the hara core. Morpheme membership is a property of grapheme occurrences in a word, not of abstract graphemes — which is why the ligature shape below is an occurrence-level (myph) path-shape.

Class

:NoteElement

Λ

note en · note fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NoteElement

Annotation attached to a segment of text; anciently the gloss (p. 320); 16th-c. side/marginal notes migrating to the 18th-c. foot of the page; senders = senders of prefaces (p. 322), with registers of intensity / degrees of obligation to read; extreme cases: Finnegans Wake ch. X noted in both margins and foot; a single note occupying a sixth of Renaud Camus's Échanges.

SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 319–343.
Class

:OrnamentalBreak

Λ

ornamental break en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrnamentalBreak

Sub-class of:TextBreak
Class

:Paragraph

Λ

paragraph en · paragraphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Paragraph

v0.5.11: part of a division (a chapter, a part), of the body directly when the book has no divisions, or of a peritext element (a preface); was part of the :Book directly. v0.6.8: also of a list entry or a table cell. dc:isPartOf is not transitive in this ontology, so the chain paragraph ⊑ division ⊑ body ⊑ book is stated level by level.

SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 86; editorial (v0.5.11).
Class

:Part

Λ

part en · partie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Part

A grouping of at least two chapters (CMOS: a part must contain more than one chapter).

Sub-class of:Division; :hasMember min 2 :Chapter
SourcesCMOS 17, §1.48.
Class

:PeritextElement

Λ

peritext element en · élément de péritexte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PeritextElement

A paratext element materially appended to the text within the same volume.

v0.5.14: also a unit of the linguistic book (dc:isPartOf :Book, declared in that chapter). Its class is its nature; its look and place are not its own but the visual grammar's. Everything in the volume that is encoded, typeset, governed by a visual grammar or recognized on a page is peritext; paratext is Genette's umbrella, peritext plus epitext.

Class

:Phoneme

Λ

phoneme en · phonème fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Phoneme

A unit of the spoken modality of a language: the spoken counterpart of the grapheme (:inPhonologicalSystem, :inMorpheme). Interface class: phonology is imported, not redefined. For a book that was written, phonemes are not resident units of the text but are supplied by readings and lexicons (:Pronunciation).

Realized by phones (:Phone) in the sounding book, as graphemes by graphs; encoded by IPA characters (:encodesPhoneme) where a pronunciation is written out.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
Class

:PhonologicalSystem

Λ

phonological system en · système phonologique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhonologicalSystem

The spoken modality of a language (variety): its inventory of phonemes and their rules. The counterpart of the writing system; one per language variety (:phonologyOf).

Domain of:phonologyOf
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
Class

:PresentationFeature

Λ

presentation feature en · trait de présentation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PresentationFeature

A relational, value-free property of a kind of unit in one modality. OPEN vocabulary, by modality.

Class

:PresentationGrammarRule

Λ

presentation grammar rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PresentationGrammarRule

One rule of an abstract presentation grammar: for one kind of unit (:appliesTo), the relational features that set it apart (:prescribesFeature).

Class

:Pronunciation

Λ

pronunciation en · prononciation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pronunciation

A claim, attributed to a source, that a unit of the linguistic book is pronounced as a given sequence of phonemes: a narrator's reading (prov:wasGeneratedBy the reading event), a synthesizer's grapheme-to-phoneme front end (a machine reading), a pronunciation guide or lexicon. Not resident in a written book, which gives its text in graphemes; recorded where a form depends on it (the sounding book), and judged for orthoepic correctness.

Homographs (lead / lead; les fils / les fils) are resolved here, by the reading that supplies the pronunciation.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
Range of:judgedUnit
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
Class

:PronunciationLexicon

Λ

pronunciation lexicon en · lexique de prononciation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PronunciationLexicon

A list of pronunciations a sounding book is judged against: a narrator's pronunciation guide, a W3C PLS lexicon, a pronouncing dictionary.

Sub-class of:JudgementBasis
Class

:Punctuation

Λ

punctuation mark en · signe de ponctuation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Punctuation

A grapheme that structures sequences of words and sentences rather than composing morphemes. It always occurs in a sentence (dc:isPartOf), sometimes inside a word form (:inWordForm: the apostrophe of «aujourd'hui», a hyphen), and never in a morpheme. Its graphemic status rests on its function, not on the minimal-pair test, which does not apply to it.

Not all graphemes belong to morphemes: punctuation is the main class that does not. Replaces the v0.5.11 rule keyed to Anis's topograms (v0.5.12, after Haralambous).

Domain of:inWordForm
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12).
Class

:Reference

Λ

reference en · renvoi fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Reference

A stretch of the linguistic book that points to a referent -- a :Location, or a unit of any extent up to the whole book -- and whose value is a function of it: 'see p. 42', 'section 5', 'section "Carrión and the book"', 'pp. 41-43', the number printed on each page. As with anaphora, the reference type selects which feature of the referent is rendered, and the rendered value must agree with the referent as laid out (:ReferenceAgreementShape). Anaphoric or cataphoric follows from the order of reference and referent and is derived, not asserted. A reference may stand in the text or in the peritext.

The reference exists before layout (\pageref, \ref are in the source); only its value waits for it. Cataphoric references are why LaTeX needs two passes; before computer typesetting, manuscripts wrote 'see p. 00' and the value was filled in at proof -- the same cataphora, resolved by hand.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:ReferenceType

Λ

reference type en · type de renvoi fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReferenceType

Which feature of the referent a reference renders, as a pronoun's type selects the features it agrees in. CLOSED vocabulary: :ByPage, :ByPageRange, :ByNumber, :ByTitle. Some types are undefined for some referents (:ReferenceTypeShape).

Class

:ScopePrecedence

Λ

scope precedence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ScopePrecedence

One pair of a partial order on the members of a scope (:inScope, :earlierMember, :laterMember): reified because the same units may stand in other orders in other scopes. Where no precedence is given, the members keep the linear order of the text.

Class

:Sentence

Λ

sentence en · phrase fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Sentence

A sentence of the linguistic book: the unit between the paragraph (of which it is part) and the word forms and morphemes it contains. Its syntax is left to the hara core; its grammaticality is recorded as a :LinguisticJudgement (v0.6.5), never stated by the ontology.

v0.6.8: also part of a list entry, a list label, a table cell or a caption, which often hold a single minor (verbless) sentence ('Milk.', 'Fig. 3. The press at Mainz', a number in a cell), so that every word form still belongs to a sentence.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
Class

:Staging

Λ

staging en · mise en page (mise en scène) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Staging

A consistent set of didascaliae for one work or one stretch of it (:inStaging). Several stagings may coexist when a fragment can be articulated visually in different ways, or when sources compete (author, editor, translator); a rendition realizes one (:realizesStaging).

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:Strophe

Λ

strophe en · strophe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Strophe

A group of verse lines, sibling of the paragraph: a division holds paragraphs, strophes or both (prosimetrum, the prose poem). Its pattern (quatrain, tercet) is a convention of a tradition; its set-off on the page is the visual grammar's.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:Subhead

Λ

subhead en · intertitre de section fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Subhead

SourcesCMOS 17, §1.56 (subheads have levels; numbered or unnumbered).
Class

:Table

Λ

table en · tableau fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Table

An annotating element always attached to a scope (:annotates), placed with respect to it by the abstract visual grammar like an illustration (:ScopePlacement), whose body is a set of cells (:TableCell), each a linguistic unit, ordered by several partial orders at once: the cells of one row by their column, the cells of one column by their row, the cells under a head by the head (:heads), row and column groups. No single linear order runs through it: a reader takes a path (along a row, down a column, from a head to a value), and a sounding book must linearize it. Recursive: a cell may hold a list or a table. Its rows are break points, so it may run over as many pages as it needs (:BreakableAcrossPages), its header (:TableHeader) repeated on each page (:RepeatedOnEachPage) to restore the column order to the reader who arrives there. It has a caption (:hasCaption) and is usually numbered ('Table 2': :ByNumber).

Linguistic, but locally (after Haralambous): no reader takes in a whole table at once, as no reader holds a whole book in mind. What sets a table apart from running text is not locality but the number of its orders. Which order is drawn across the page is the visual grammar's: a table can be transposed without becoming another table. Within the book, a table projects the order a dictionary projects for the whole: it is consulted, not read through (:ConsultativeReading). v0.6.9: directly under :AnnotatingElement (was under :DisplayItem).

Domain of:hasCaption
SourcesCMOS 17, ch. 3 (illustrations and tables); editorial (v0.6.8, v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:TableCell

Λ

table cell en · cellule fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TableCell

A cell of a table: a linguistic unit (often a minor sentence, a number, a word form), possibly holding paragraphs, a list or a table. Its place in two of the table's orders is given by :rowIndex and :columnIndex, possibly spanning several (:rowSpan, :columnSpan): cells sharing a row are ordered by their columns, cells sharing a column by their rows, and other pairs are not ordered by either. The names 'row' and 'column' come from the usual drawing; in the linguistic book they name two orders, not two directions.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Table
Sub-classes:HeaderCell
Range of:heads
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:TableHeader

Λ

table header en · en-tête de tableau fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TableHeader

The column heads of a table taken as one unit, read before its body. When the table runs over several pages, the visual grammar repeats it at the top of each (:RepeatedOnEachPage), as the running head repeats the division title: the reader who opens the table on its seventh page cannot hold the first page's column order in mind.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :Table
Class

:TableListEntry

Λ

entry of a list of tables en · entrée de la liste des tableaux fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TableListEntry

An entry of a list of tables: an annotating element whose scope is one table, holding its number, its caption or a short form of it, and a page reference to it.

Class

:TableOfContents

Λ

table of contents en · table des matières fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TableOfContents

List of the book's divisions; conventionally at the front in English and German books, at the back in French (a cultural convention worth representing); may attribute titles to untitled chapters, amplify (p. 317), or quote incipits (p. 317); parts take no page numbers (CMOS 1.38). Genealogically descended from the binder's register of first words.

Sub-class of:List; :PeritextElement
Domain of:tocPosition
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 316–317; CMOS 17, §1.38; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:TactileFeature

Λ

tactile feature en · trait tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileFeature

A relational, value-free tactile property of a kind of unit. OPEN vocabulary.

Class

:TactileGrammarRule

Λ

tactile grammar rule en · règle de grammaire tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileGrammarRule

Class

:TextBreak

Λ

break en · blanc / séparateur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TextBreak

A division stronger than a paragraph but weaker than a subhead, marked ornamentally or typographically (extra space).

SourcesCMOS 17, §1.58.
Class

:TitlePosition

Λ

title position en · position du titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TitlePosition

CLOSED vocabulary: :InitialTitle, :TerminalTitle.

Class

:TypographicBreak

Λ

typographic break en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypographicBreak

Sub-class of:TextBreak
Class

:TypographicTradition

Λ

typographic tradition en · tradition typographique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypographicTradition

A community- and period-scoped body of typographic convention. Tradition-scoped shapes are guarded by it, as pragmatic force is scoped to a community.

SourcesEditorial (v0.4).
Class

:VerseLine

Λ

verse line en · vers fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VerseLine

A line of verse: a unit of the linguistic book whose end is meant to be read and, in recitation, heard, unlike the computed line ends of prose. It contains word forms (dc:isPartOf on the word form), which are also parts of sentences: the metrical and the syntactic hierarchies cross, and neither contains the other. Distinct from the typeset line: a verse line too long for the measure is set with a turnover (two typeset lines), and a verset may take several.

Enjambment is derived, never asserted: a sentence that does not end at a verse-line end (a query over dc:isPartOf). Metrical conformity is a judgement (:MetricalConformity), rhyme too.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
Class

:WordForm

Λ

word form en · forme de mot fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WordForm

A word as it occurs in the book (chantais, not the lexeme CHANTER): a segment of a sentence delimited by the word segmentation of its writing system (in French, spaces and punctuation, with the known hard cases l'homme, aujourd'hui), consisting of morphemes and possibly word-internal punctuation. Where the writing system does not separate words (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, scriptio continua) the segmentation is an analysis received from a segmenter, as morpheme segmentation is. Being a word of the language is NOT part of the definition: it is a :Lexicality judgement, so that a nonce word (slithy) is a word form judged non-lexical.

Interface class (see hara core). Part of a sentence (v0.5.11); its morphemes via :hasMorpheme. Definition by segmentation added in v0.6.6 (after Haralambous), replacing 'a sequence of morphemes some lexicographer has claimed being a word'.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some (:Sentence ∪ :VerseLine ∪ :Division)
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.6).
Class

:WritingDirection

Λ

writing direction en · sens de l'écriture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WritingDirection

The direction in which lines are written and read; a property of the inscription, not of the language.

Class

:WritingMode

Λ

writing mode en · mode d'écriture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WritingMode

A mode a writing system provides, between which a text or a rendition chooses: uncontracted and contracted braille. OPEN vocabulary.

SourcesSpitzmüller 2025 ('braille writing systems usually define so-called modes').
Object property

:afterUnit

Λ

after unit en · après l'unité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/afterUnit

The unit the location immediately follows, at the level chosen.

Object property

:annotates

Λ

annotates en · annote fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/annotates

The referent of a note: the passage (a unit) or the point (a :Location, where the callout stands) it comments on. A logical fact of the linguistic book; where the note is set -- foot, margin at the height of its referent, end of chapter -- is decided by the visual grammar, not by the note.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 319 (the note attached to a segment of text); editorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Object property

:basedOnWritingSystem

Λ

based on writing system en · fondé sur le système d'écriture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/basedOnWritingSystem

Historical dependence of one writing system on another of the same language (Unified English Braille on print English), without subordination: the dependent system relates its marks to the language in its own way.

SourcesSpitzmüller 2025 (braille 'not in any way semiotically subordinate'); editorial (v0.6.11).
Object property

:beforeUnit

Λ

before unit en · avant l'unité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/beforeUnit

The unit the location immediately precedes, at the level chosen.

Object property

:chanceResolvedAt

Λ

chance resolved at en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/chanceResolvedAt

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:concernsFeature

Λ

concerns feature en · porte sur le trait fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/concernsFeature

A kind of feature the didascalia directs, value-free: position, size, typeface, colour, orientation, timing on a screen, voice in a sounding book. Optional: the text of the didascalia is what directs; this property only indexes it.

Object property

:didascaliaLanguage

Λ

didascalia language en · langue de la didascalie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascaliaLanguage

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:didascalicAttestation

Λ

didascalic attestation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascalicAttestation

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:didascalicMode

Λ

didascalic mode en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascalicMode

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:earlierMember

Λ

earlier member en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/earlierMember

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:encodesPhoneme

Λ

encodes phoneme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/encodesPhoneme

An IPA character in a written-out pronunciation encodes a phoneme, as a character of the text encodes a grapheme.

Sub-property of:encodes
Object property

:hasCaption

Λ

has caption en · a pour légende fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCaption

Domain(:Illustration ∪ :Table)
Characteristicsinverse functional
Object property

:hasEntry

Λ

has entry en · a pour entrée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasEntry

An entry of the list; an entry belongs to one list.

Domain:List
Characteristicsinverse functional
Object property

:hasHyphenationPoint

Λ

has hyphenation point en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasHyphenationPoint

Object property

:hasLabel

Λ

has label en · a pour étiquette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLabel

Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
Object property

:hasMorpheme

Λ

has morpheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMorpheme

Domain:WordForm
Object property

:hasPhoneme

Λ

has phoneme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPhoneme

Optionally, the phoneme individuals of the pronunciation, where the phonological system is modelled.

Object property

:hasReferenceType

Λ

has reference type en · a pour type de renvoi fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReferenceType

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasScope

Λ

has scope en · a pour portée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasScope

What the didascalia directs, when :annotates (a single unit or point) is not enough.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasSubtitle

Λ

has subtitle en · a pour sous-titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSubtitle

Relates a division to its subtitle, a second title subordinate to the first (v0.6.6).

Domain:Division
Characteristicsinverse functional
Object property

:hasTitle

Λ

has title en · a pour titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTitle

Relates a division to its title (v0.6.6, after Haralambous). A division may be untitled; a title titles exactly one division.

Domain:Division
Characteristicsinverse functional
Object property

:hasTypographicTradition

Λ

has typographic tradition en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTypographicTradition

Attached to a myph (or inherited from its run/page/book): the guard on tradition-scoped shapes such as :IntramorphemicLigatureShape.

Object property

:hasWritingDirection

Λ

has writing direction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasWritingDirection

Object property

:hasWritingMode

Λ

has writing mode en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasWritingMode

Object property

:heads

Λ

heads en · chapeaute fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/heads

A header cell heads a cell: one more partial order on the cells of a table, independent of the grid (a spanner heads the column heads under it, and through them their values). What a screen reader announces before each cell.

Characteristicstransitive
Object property

:hyphenatedUnit

Λ

hyphenated unit en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenatedUnit

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hyphenationVariety

Λ

hyphenation variety en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenationVariety

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:inMorpheme

Λ

in morpheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inMorpheme

Domain(:Grapheme ∪ :Phoneme)
Object property

:inPhonologicalSystem

Λ

in phonological system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inPhonologicalSystem

Domain:Phoneme
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:inScope

Λ

in scope en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inScope

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:inStaging

Λ

in staging en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inStaging

Object property

:inWordForm

Λ

in word form en · dans la forme de mot fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inWordForm

A punctuation mark occurring inside a word form (apostrophe, hyphen, abbreviation point), without belonging to any of its morphemes.

Object property

:inWritingMode

Λ

in writing mode en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inWritingMode

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:judgedAgainst

Λ

judged against en · jugé selon fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgedAgainst

The norm or resource the judgement is relative to.

Object property

:judgedProperty

Λ

judged property en · propriété jugée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgedProperty

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:judgedUnit

Λ

judged unit en · unité jugée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgedUnit

The unit the judgement is about: a word form (lexicality, orthographic correctness, morphotactic well-formedness), a sentence (grammaticality), a verse line (metrical conformity), or, for a didascalic judgement, a rendition or a part of one (a typeset page or block, a made-up page, an observable state).

Object property

:labelKind

Λ

label kind en · type d'étiquette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/labelKind

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:laterMember

Λ

later member en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/laterMember

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:partOfOrthography

Λ

part of orthography en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/partOfOrthography

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:phonologyOf

Λ

phonology of en · phonologie de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/phonologyOf

Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
Object property

:pointInWordForm

Λ

point in word form en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pointInWordForm

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:pronouncedUnit

Λ

pronounced unit en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pronouncedUnit

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:realizesStaging

Λ

realizes staging en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/realizesStaging

Object property

:refersTo

Λ

refers to en · renvoie à fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/refersTo

The referent of a non-deictic reference: a point (:Location) or a unit with extent.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:refines

Λ

refines en · précise fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/refines

A particular didascalia under a general one: an instruction on one opening of the Coup de dés under Mallarmé's 'Observation'.

Object property

:relativeToVariety

Λ

relative to variety en · relatif à la variété fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/relativeToVariety

The language variety the judgement holds for (a :Language of the :isVarietyOf hierarchy): a spelling may be correct in British and incorrect in American English, a sentence grammatical in one dialect and not in another.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:scopeFrom

Λ

scope from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeFrom

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:scopeMember

Λ

scope member en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeMember

Object property

:scopeTo

Λ

scope to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeTo

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:titlePosition

Λ

title position en · position du titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/titlePosition

Where the title stands in the linear order of its division: before its content (the default) or after it. A fact of the linguistic book -- the order in which the text is meant to be read -- not of layout.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:acceptability

Λ

acceptability en · acceptabilité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/acceptability

A graded value in [0,1], instead of a boolean one: a speaker's acceptability rating, a model's probability. A credence or a score, as :probability is on a correspondence.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:breakAlteration

Λ

break alteration en · altération à la coupure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/breakAlteration

A change of spelling at the break, stated as a rule ('ck → k-k', German before 1996; 'ssz → sz-sz', Hungarian; 'ï → i at the start of the second fragment', Dutch). Where it applies, the grapheme string does not stay whole across the break.

Data property

:columnIndex

Λ

column index en · rang de colonne fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/columnIndex

The first column the cell occupies, counted from 1 in the writing direction of the table's language.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:columnSpan

Λ

column span en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/columnSpan

Number of columns the cell spans (default 1): a spanner head over several column heads.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:didascalicText

Λ

didascalic text en · texte de la didascalie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascalicText

The words of the didascalia, with their language tag; their language need not be that of the text they direct.

Data property

:entryPosition

Λ

entry position en · rang de l'entrée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/entryPosition

The place of the entry in its list, counted from 1: a fact of the linear order of the text, which a number label renders.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasLevel

Λ

has level en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLevel

SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 88; CMOS 17, §1.56.
Data property

:hasTitleString

Λ

has title (string) en · a pour titre (chaîne) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTitleString

The title of a titled unit, the value a :ByTitle reference must agree with.

Data property

:hyphenatedForm

Λ

hyphenated form en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenatedForm

The claim written out, with a hyphen at each point ('hy-phen-ation'); an altered spelling at a point is written as the regime writes it ('Zuk-ker').

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hyphenationPriority

Λ

hyphenation priority en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenationPriority

1 for a preferred point, higher for less preferred ones: the boundary of a German compound before the syllable points within its members.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:involvesChance

Λ

involves chance en · fait appel au hasard fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/involvesChance

The didascalia calls for chance ('scatter these words'). The procedure that carries it out is its encoding, a program in C_cont (algorithm, seed); the outcome is fixed in C_form. Conformity to such a didascalia can only be judged over several renditions.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:isGrammatical

Λ

is grammatical en · est grammatical fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isGrammatical

Summary of the :Grammaticality judgements on a sentence; same caveat as :isLexical.

Domain:Sentence
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
Data property

:isLexical

Λ

is lexical en · est lexical fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isLexical

Summary of the :Lexicality judgements on a word form, for data that need no relativity. Not to be asserted where judgements of different sources differ (record the judgements instead), as :realizesGrapheme is not asserted beside conflicting realizations.

Domain:WordForm
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
Data property

:isNumbered

Λ

is numbered en · est numéroté fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isNumbered

Domain:Subhead
SourcesCMOS 17, §1.56.
Data property

:isOptionalReading

Λ

is optional reading en · lecture facultative fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isOptionalReading

Whether the text presents the element as readable or skippable, the default reading path not passing through it: a conventional stance of the text towards its reader, not a claim about readers. True of every note and every contents entry, even one whose content the argument needs (a step of a proof, Bayle's notes): how far the argument depends on it is a matter of interpretation, recorded, if at all, in a reading event. A property of the discourse, not of the layout.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous); Genette 1997, p. 322 (degrees of obligation to read).
Data property

:judgementValue

Λ

judgement value en · valeur du jugement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgementValue

Whether the source judges the unit to have the property.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:phonemicTranscription

Λ

phonemic transcription en · transcription phonémique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/phonemicTranscription

The phonemes, written in IPA ('/lɛd/').

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:pointOffset

Λ

point offset en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pointOffset

The number of graphemes of the word form before the point.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:regimeInForceFrom

Λ

in force from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeInForceFrom

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:regimeInForceUntil

Λ

in force until en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeInForceUntil

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:rowIndex

Λ

row index en · rang de ligne fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rowIndex

The first row the cell occupies, counted from 1 (header rows included).

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:rowSpan

Λ

row span en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rowSpan

Number of rows the cell spans (default 1).

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:scriptIsDistinctive

Λ

script is distinctive en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scriptIsDistinctive

Whether, in a writing system using several scripts, the choice of script is distinctive within a text (Japanese: true) or a choice for whole texts that changes no unit (Serbian Cyrillic and Latin, digraphia: false). Graphemes carry :inScript only where it is true.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesBunčić, Lippert & Rabus 2016 (digraphia, diglyphia, diorthographia); editorial (v0.6.11).
Data property

:statedValue

Λ

stated value en · valeur écrite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/statedValue

The value as written by the author when the reference is typed by hand ('see p. 42'; 'see p. 00' in a manuscript awaiting proofs) rather than computed. Hand-written references are checked by the same agreement shapes, and are the ones that go stale when a book is re-laid out.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:usesWordSeparation

Λ

uses word separation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesWordSeparation

Whether the inscription separates words (false = scriptio continua). Word separation entered Latin c. 675 CE via Insular scribes and enabled silent reading.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Saenger 1997.
Individual

:AttestedDidascalia

Λ

attested en · attestée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AttestedDidascalia

Individual

:BottomToTop

Λ

bottom-to-top en · de bas en haut fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BottomToTop

Line (or, in a columnar script, glyph) progression running upward. Attested for several Philippine scripts — Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa — traditionally incised bottom-to-top on bamboo, and in bottom-to-top inscriptional and signage practice.

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<linguistic-book>>; Daniels & Bright 1996 (Philippine scripts).
Individual

:Boustrophedon

Λ

boustrophedon en · boustrophédon fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Boustrophedon

Writing whose direction reverses at each line, named for ox-plowing; allowed continuous scanning without lifting the instrument.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Individual

:ByNumber

Λ

by number ('section 5', 'note 12', 'equation (4)') en · par numéro fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ByNumber

The number the numbering assigns the unit (division, note, illustration, table, equation counters). Undefined for a location.

Instance of:ReferenceType
Individual

:ByPage

Λ

by page ('p. 42') en · par page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ByPage

The number of the page the referent falls on: for a location, its page; for a unit, the page where it starts -- a convention of the abstract grammar, which a house style may replace by a range. Undefined for the whole book.

Instance of:ReferenceType
Individual

:ByPageRange

Λ

by page range ('pp. 41-43') en · par plage de pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ByPageRange

The first and last pages over which a unit extends. Undefined for a location.

Instance of:ReferenceType
Individual

:ByTitle

Λ

by title ('section "Carrión and the book"') en · par titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ByTitle

The title of the unit, quoted. Undefined for a location and for an untitled unit.

Instance of:ReferenceType
Individual

:CentredOnLine

Λ

centred on its line en · centré fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CentredOnLine

Instance of:TactileFeature
Individual

:ContractedMode

Λ

contracted en · abrégé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContractedMode

Cells may stand for clusters of graphemes or whole word forms by the system's own rules (UEB, German Braille differ): a logographic mode.

Instance of:WritingMode
Individual

:Descriptive

Λ

descriptive en · descriptive fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Descriptive

A verbalization of a form perceived, generated by a reading event (prov:wasGeneratedBy) and scoped to it like a :Realization: what a reader says when asked what the page does. It closes the cycle: prescription in Λ, formalization in C_cont, fixation in C_form, perception in Φ, description back in Λ.

Instance of:DidascalicMode
Individual

:DidascalicConformity

Λ

didascalic conformity en · conformité à la didascalie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicConformity

Of a rendition or a part of one (a typeset page or block, a made-up page, an observable state): following the didascalia it is judged against. A judgement, not a shape: the didascalia is language, and whether a page 'takes some distance and weakens' is decided by interpretation. Value false = breach (the Cosmopolis printing of May 1897 against Mallarmé's layout of the Coup de dés; Lustra against the spaced 1913 printing of 'In a Station of the Metro').

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:EnglishTradition

Λ

English typographic tradition en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EnglishTradition

Individual

:GermanTradition

Λ

German typographic tradition en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GermanTradition

Individual

:Grammaticality

Λ

grammaticality en · grammaticalité fr · Grammatikalität de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Grammaticality

Of a sentence: conforming to the syntax of the language variety.

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:HyphenationCorrectness

Λ

hyphenation correctness en · correction de la coupure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HyphenationCorrectness

Of a hyphenation claim: placing the points its regime licenses for the word form. Judged where no claim of the norm exists to check the claim against (a word missing from the dictionary, a word the patterns misread).

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:InitialTitle

Λ

initial title en · titre initial fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InitialTitle

Instance of:TitlePosition
Individual

:LeftToRight

Λ

left-to-right en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LeftToRight

Individual

:Lexicality

Λ

lexicality en · lexicalité fr · Lexikalität de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lexicality

Of a word form: being a word of the language variety. A word form need not be lexical to be a word form (a nonce word such as Carroll's slithy is one, judged non-lexical).

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:MarkedByIndicator

Λ

marked by an indicator cell en · marqué par un indicateur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarkedByIndicator

Instance of:TactileFeature
Individual

:MetricalConformity

Λ

metrical conformity en · conformité métrique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MetricalConformity

Of a verse line, hemistich or strophe: conforming to a metre (the alexandrine, the iambic pentameter). A judgement, not a shape: syllable count depends on diaeresis, synaeresis and the mute e, decided by interpretation; judged against a :JudgementBasis that names the metre.

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:MorphotacticWellFormedness

Λ

morphotactic well-formedness en · bonne formation morphotactique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MorphotacticWellFormedness

Of a word form: its morphemes occurring in an order the morphology of the variety admits. Presupposes a segmentation (:hasMorpheme, from the hara core).

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:NumberLabel

Λ

number ('1.', '(a)', 'iv)') en · numéro fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NumberLabel

Instance of:ListLabelKind
Individual

:OrthoepicCorrectness

Λ

orthoepic correctness en · correction orthoépique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrthoepicCorrectness

Of a pronunciation: being the one its orthoepy or lexicon licenses. The spoken counterpart of orthographic correctness; a mispronunciation in a sounding book is a judgement with value false.

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:OrthographicCorrectness

Λ

orthographic correctness en · correction orthographique fr · orthographische Richtigkeit de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrthographicCorrectness

Of a word form: being spelled as its orthography licenses, i.e. being the member of its graphematic solution space that the orthography selects. Judged against a dated :Orthography (or a dictionary codifying it), so that the same spelling may be correct against one norm and incorrect against another.

Instance of:JudgedProperty
Individual

:Prescriptive

Λ

prescriptive en · prescriptive fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Prescriptive

Written before the form, to direct it: the author's, an editor's, a translator's, a designer's.

Instance of:DidascalicMode
Individual

:PrintPageIndicated

Λ

print page number indicated en · page imprimée indiquée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrintPageIndicated

Instance of:TactileFeature
Individual

:ReconstructedDidascalia

Λ

reconstructed en · reconstituée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReconstructedDidascalia

Individual

:ResolvedInProduction

Λ

once in production en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedInProduction

Individual

:ResolvedPerCopy

Λ

per copy en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedPerCopy

Individual

:ResolvedPerDisplay

Λ

per display en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedPerDisplay

Individual

:RightToLeft

Λ

right-to-left en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RightToLeft

Individual

:SymbolLabel

Λ

symbol (bullet, dash, check box) en · puce fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SymbolLabel

Instance of:ListLabelKind
Individual

:TermLabel

Λ

term (headword, glossary or description-list term) en · vedette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TermLabel

Instance of:ListLabelKind
Individual

:TerminalTitle

Λ

terminal title en · titre terminal fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TerminalTitle

A title placed after the content it titles, read last: Debussy's Préludes (Genette 1997, p. 65); the end-titles of Greek papyrus rolls and codices (Schironi 2010); the explicit of medieval manuscripts.

Instance of:TitlePosition
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 65; Schironi, To Mega Biblion, Ann Arbor 2010.
Individual

:TopToBottom

Λ

top-to-bottom (columnar) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TopToBottom

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (jiance slips fixing the Chinese column).
Individual

:UncontractedMode

Λ

uncontracted en · intégral fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UncontractedMode

Cells relate to the graphemes of the print system one by one, with indicators (capital sign, number sign).

Instance of:WritingMode
Individual

:bookParts

Λ

book parts en · parties du livre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/bookParts

Instance ofrdf:Seq
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 85.
Individual

:discursiveIndependence

Λdeprecated

discursive independence (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/discursiveIndependence

Instance ofrdf:Property
Class

:AbstractVisualGrammar

C_cont

abstract visual grammar en · grammaire visuelle abstraite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AbstractVisualGrammar

The abstract visual grammar in force for one book (an individual per book, followed by its encoded text: :followsGrammar): a body of RELATIONAL rules stating how each kind of unit, above all each kind of peritext element, is made visually distinct from the main text and from the others: a footnote is smaller than the text, set below it, separated from it by a rule or blank space, and runs on at the foot of the next page; a marginal note is smaller still and set in the margin level with its referent; a running head is small and set above the text block. Its rules hold no values (no point sizes, no lengths): they are oppositions, the emic level of the page, and a reader's recognition of a footnote rests on them. Keyed to the kinds of element the encoded text labels; drawn on the left edge of the digital-content corner.

A convention, not a function forms carry by themselves: scoped to a tradition, a period and a community (:inTradition) and sourced like any convention. This is how the ontology takes Spitzmüller's and Drucker's point that a decontextualized grammar of visual design is not to be had; a reader's competence in the grammar is Spitzmüller's graphisches Wissen. It serves twice, in production (encoded content toward typeset form) and in reading (recognition of peritext). Often no file holds it: it lives in style manuals and in designers' and readers' heads. v0.5.16: one individual per book; what it was drawn from (a tradition, a house style, CMOS) is provenance (:inTradition, :derivedFromSource). The level shared across books is the tradition, in the conventions, not the grammar.

Sub-classes:CodeGrammar
Range of:viewGrammar
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous); Spitzmüller 2013, pp. 203-207 (graphisches Wissen); Genette 1997, p. 320 (note placements); CMOS 17, ch. 1.
Class

:BRFDocument

C_cont

BRF document (Braille Ready Format, braille ASCII) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BRFDocument

Class

:BrailleCell

C_cont

braille cell (placed) en · cellule braille fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BrailleCell

One placed cell of a braille form document: a myph whose shape is a dot pattern, its geometry fixed by a dot-spacing standard rather than by a font.

Sub-class of:Myph
Class

:BrailleFormDocument

C_cont

braille form document en · document braille formaté fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BrailleFormDocument

A braille file fixed to cells, lines and pages (typically 40 cells by 25 lines), with braille page numbers and print page indicators: the braille PDF. Its Unicode braille patterns or braille-ASCII characters encode cells, not graphemes.

Sub-class of:DigitalBookByForm
Class

:BrailleTranslationProcess

C_cont

braille translation en · transcription braille fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BrailleTranslationProcess

The typesetting of braille (Duxbury, liblouis): from the print text of the digital-content book, it applies a braille writing system and mode (contraction, capital and number indicators), breaks lines by braille rules, paginates, and writes a braille form file.

Class

:CharacterString

C_cont

character string en · chaîne de caractères fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CharacterString

A sequence of Unicode characters in the encoded text, e.g. the encoding of a sentence. Its sequence is recorded as a literal (:stringValue); the character types occurring in it by :containsCharacter.

Class

:DigitalBookByContents

C_cont

digital book by contents en · livre numérique de contenu fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DigitalBookByContents

A digital item encoding the book's linguistic content symbolically (character codes and markup) rather than as an image of a page or a sound signal; 'liquid' text that reflows into the reader's vessel of choice.

Sub-class offabio:DigitalItem
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 40; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg's Plain Vanilla ASCII philosophy).
Class

:DirectionalRun

C_cont

directional run en · plage directionnelle fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DirectionalRun

A maximal contiguous span of text at one bidi embedding level, with one resolved base direction; runs nest to form the embedding tree the bidi algorithm resolves.

SourcesUnicode Bidirectional Algorithm, UAX #9; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §4.4.
Class

:DisplayPlacement

C_contdeprecated

display placement (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisplayPlacement

v0.6.9: renamed :ScopePlacement.

Equivalent to:ScopePlacement
Class

:EPUBDocument

C_cont

EPUB document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EPUBDocument

Sub-class of:MarkupDocument
Class

:EncodedBreakProhibition

C_cont

encoded break prohibition en · interdiction de coupure encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedBreakProhibition

A mark of the digital-content book that forbids a break within a stretch: a non-breaking hyphen (U+2011, OOXML w:noBreakHyphen), \\mbox, CSS hyphens: none, OOXML w:suppressAutoHyphens on a paragraph.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14).
Class

:EncodedCaption

C_cont

encoded caption en · légende encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedCaption

A caption as encoded: LaTeX \caption (with its optional short form for the list of illustrations), TEI <head> (and <figDesc>) inside <figure> or <table>, HTML <figcaption> or <caption>, a Word paragraph in the Caption style (a label without extent, tied to its item only by adjacency). Encodes a :Caption.

Class

:EncodedDisplayItem

C_contdeprecated

encoded display item (deprecated) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedDisplayItem

v0.6.9: replaced by :EncodedIllustration and :EncodedTable.

Class

:EncodedDivision

C_cont

encoded division en · division encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedDivision

A division as delimited in the encoded text: a markup element (TEI or HTML div, section) or a sectioning command (LaTeX \section). The encoded counterpart of :Division.

Domain of:markupName
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
Class

:EncodedHyphenationPoint

C_cont

encoded hyphenation point en · point de coupure encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedHyphenationPoint

A hyphenation point written into the digital-content book: a soft hyphen (U+00AD, HTML &shy;), TeX's \\- inside a word, an entry of \\hyphenation{}, OOXML w:softHyphen. It encodes a point (:encodes) of a claim attributed to the author or the editor, which overrides the machine's for that word form.

Sub-class of:EncodedLocation
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14).
Class

:EncodedIllustration

C_cont

encoded illustration en · illustration encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedIllustration

An illustration as encoded: a LaTeX figure environment (a float), or an \includegraphics set in the flow, between paragraphs or inside one (a minipage, wrapfig); TEI <figure>; HTML <figure> or <img>; OOXML w:drawing, anchored inline or floating (:placementAnchor). Encodes an :Illustration; usually names an image file (:includesImage).

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:EncodedList

C_cont

encoded list en · liste encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedList

A list as encoded: LaTeX itemize, enumerate, description; TEI <list type>; HTML <ul>, <ol>, <dl>. OOXML has no list element: a Word list is a run of paragraphs each carrying a numbering reference (w:numPr), i.e. labels without extent, and the list as a unit is reconstructed by the processor. Encodes a :List.

Domain of:markupName
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:EncodedListEntry

C_cont

encoded list entry en · entrée de liste encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedListEntry

An entry as encoded: LaTeX \item, TEI <item>, HTML <li> or a <dt>/<dd> pair, an OOXML paragraph with numbering properties. Encodes a :ListEntry.

Class

:EncodedListLabel

C_cont

encoded list label en · étiquette encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedListLabel

A label written out in the encoded text: the optional argument of LaTeX \item[...], TEI <label>, HTML <dt>. Number labels are usually NOT encoded: the counter of an enumerate or an <ol> gives them their value at typesetting, which exists only in the digital-form book (:resolvedValue), as a page number does. Encodes a :ListLabel.

Domain of:markupName
Class

:EncodedLocation

C_cont

encoded location en · emplacement encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedLocation

A non-textual leaf of the encoded tree, contributing no character to the text: a LaTeX \label, a TEI <anchor/>, an empty HTML element with an id. Encodes a :Location, or stands in for a unit (:standsForUnit).

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:EncodedParagraph

C_cont

encoded paragraph en · paragraphe encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedParagraph

A paragraph as delimited in the encoded text (a p element, a blank line in LaTeX or plain text): a sequence of character strings, typically one per sentence. The encoded counterpart of :Paragraph.

Class

:EncodedPeritextElement

C_cont

encoded peritext element en · élément de péritexte encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedPeritextElement

A peritext element as delimited and LABELLED in the encoded text: TEI <note place="foot">, <fw type="header">, LaTeX \footnote, \marginpar, \markboth, HTML <aside>. The label (:markupName) is all the encoded text knows of the element's nature; its look is left to the visual grammars. Encodes a :PeritextElement.

Domain of:markupName
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:EncodedReference

C_cont

encoded reference en · renvoi encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedReference

A reference as encoded: LaTeX \pageref, \ref, \thepage; TEI <ref target>, <ptr>; an HTML link. It carries a pointer (:pointsTo), not a value: the value is computed by the typesetting process and exists only in the digital-form book (:resolvedValue). Encodes a :Reference.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:EncodedTable

C_cont

encoded table en · tableau encodé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedTable

A table as encoded: a LaTeX table environment (a float), or a bare tabular or longtable in the flow, between paragraphs or inside one; TEI <table>; HTML <table>; OOXML w:tbl. Encodes a :Table; its cells are :EncodedTableCell.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:EncodedTableCell

C_cont

encoded table cell en · cellule encodée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedTableCell

A cell as encoded: TEI <cell> in <row>, HTML <td> or <th> in <tr>, OOXML w:tc in w:tr, a field between & in a LaTeX row. Markup is a tree and holds one of the table's orders: rows are elements, columns are found by counting cells, and spans (\multicolumn, @cols, colspan, w:gridSpan) make the count depend on the rows above -- the overlap problem of markup once more. Encodes a :TableCell.

Domain of:markupName
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:GrammarSource

C_cont

grammar source en · source de grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GrammarSource

Anything a book's visual or sounding grammar is drawn from and that serves many books: a house style manual, a designer's specification sheet, a LaTeX class, a CSS stylesheet (v0.6).

Class

:GrammarSourceFile

C_cont

grammar source file en · fichier source de grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GrammarSourceFile

A file a book's visual grammar is drawn from, shared by many books: a LaTeX class or package, a CSS stylesheet, an XSLT stylesheet producing XSL-FO, a layout program's style sheets. Not itself the grammar of any book: the grammar in force is the merge of its sources and the book's own overrides.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous).
Class

:GraphemeClass

C_cont

grapheme class en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeClass

Anis's (1988) autonomistic classification of graphemes by their role in meaning, cutting across the Unicode general category.

SourcesAnis 1988; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §4.3.
Class

:ImageFile

C_cont

image file en · fichier image fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ImageFile

A raster or vector image (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, EPS, a page of a PDF) included by an encoded illustration. Its form is fixed before any typesetting, so it is drawn in the digital-form region: an encoded illustration is the one place where the digital-content book points across the border into fixed form before the typesetting process runs.

Sub-class offabio:DigitalItem
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:LaTeXDocument

C_cont

LaTeX document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LaTeXDocument

Class

:LetterCase

C_cont

letter case en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LetterCase

Class

:MarkupDocument

C_cont

markup document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarkupDocument

Class

:NarrationProcess

C_cont

narration process en · processus de narration fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NarrationProcess

An activity in which a human (or, for the generated book, a synthetic) voice realizes a book's linguistic content as recorded sound, producing a :DigitalBookBySound or, before the computer, a :SoundMaster from which :AudioCarrier inscriptions are pressed (v0.6); the sounding counterpart of :OCRProcess and :GenerationProcess.

The straight-vs-performed axis (Vieni 1976 to Katz 'we injected performance', Rubery 2016) is a convention contested in communities — sourced claims over the process, not a class of artefact. Its agent is variably named reader/narrator/speaker/performer.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 7–8, 86–87, 245–246; editorial (v0.3.1).
Class

:OCRProcess

C_cont

OCR process en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OCRProcess

Conversion of page images to machine-readable text; its provenance matters because the result is a deeply mediated image of a physical object, not liquid pixels.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 and Glossary, s.v. 'OCR'.
Class

:PEFDocument

C_cont

PEF document (Portable Embosser Format, XML with Unicode braille) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PEFDocument

Class

:PlainTextDocument

C_cont

plain text document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlainTextDocument

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg e-texts).
Class

:ScanningArtifact

C_cont

scanning artifact en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ScanningArtifact

A trace of the digitization act left in the digital item (an operator's hand or finger, page curvature, watermark); evidence of the manual in the digital.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Andrew Norman Wilson's ScanOps images).
Class

:ScopeKind

C_cont

kind of scope en · type de portée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ScopeKind

What an annotating element is attached to, as far as its placement is concerned. CLOSED vocabulary: :LocationBetweenParagraphs, :LocationInParagraph (both narrower than :LocationScope), :ParagraphScope, :DivisionScope, :BookScope. The kind of a location follows from its neighbours (:afterUnit, :beforeUnit): paragraphs or larger units on both sides, or units of one paragraph.

Range of:forScope
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:ScopePlacement

C_cont

placement with respect to the scope en · placement par rapport à la portée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ScopePlacement

Where the visual grammar sets an illustration or a table with respect to its scope (:forScope); the counterpart of :NotePlacement. OPEN vocabulary. None of these is a float in LaTeX's sense: a float is one mechanism by which an engine applies some of them.

Class

:SpeechRecognitionProcess

C_cont

speech recognition en · reconnaissance de la parole fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpeechRecognitionProcess

Dictation: phones in the air, captured as audio, recognized as characters. The OCR of sound, losing the phonemic layer as OCR loses the graphs.

Class

:SpeechSegment

C_cont

speech segment en · segment de parole fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpeechSegment

A stretch of the audio placed at a time offset (:segmentStart, :segmentEnd, in seconds): the myph of sound.

Class

:SpeechSynthesisProcess

C_cont

speech synthesis en · synthèse vocale fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpeechSynthesisProcess

Machine narration: a grapheme-to-phoneme front end (a machine reading, whose pronunciations are attributed to it) followed by synthesis with a voice applying a concrete sounding grammar. The typesetting of sound.

Sub-class of:NarrationProcess
Class

:UnicodeBidiClass

C_cont

Unicode bidi class en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeBidiClass

Class

:UnicodeBlock

C_cont

Unicode block en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeBlock

Range of:hasBlock
Class

:UnicodeCharacter

C_cont

Unicode character en · caractère Unicode fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeCharacter

Bridge to the graphemics core: a coded abstraction over graphemes; the grapheme/character distinction is treated in the hara ontology.

Class

:UnicodeGeneralCategory

C_cont

Unicode general category en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeGeneralCategory

The two-letter code; top groups L letter, M mark, N number, P punctuation, S symbol, Z separator, C other.

Class

:UnicodeScript

C_cont

Unicode / ISO 15924 script en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeScript

Class

:VisualFeature

C_cont

visual feature en · trait visuel fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualFeature

A relational, value-free visual property of a kind of unit, stated against the main text: relative size, position on the page, alignment, separation, repetition. OPEN vocabulary: the instances below, and the note placements of §5.4 (:NotePlacement ⊑ :VisualFeature).

Class

:VisualGrammarRule

C_cont

visual grammar rule en · règle de grammaire visuelle fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualGrammarRule

One rule of an abstract visual grammar: for one kind of unit (:appliesTo), the relational visual features that set it apart (:prescribesFeature).

Class

:Voice

C_cont

voice en · voix fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Voice

The font of sound: a synthetic voice, or the recorded voice of a narrator, by which speech segments are realized (:spokenWithVoice).

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
Class

:XMLDocument

C_cont

XML document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/XMLDocument

Object property

:appliesTo

C_cont

applies to en · s'applique à fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesTo

The kind of unit a rule governs: a class of the linguistic book (a peritext element class such as :NoteElement, or :BodyPart for the main text), used as an individual by OWL 2 punning, as :CodexBook is for affordances. The class is the element's nature; its properties (a heading's level, a note's callout) are the rule's parameters.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:containsCharacter

C_cont

contains character en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/containsCharacter

A character type occurring in the string. Types, not parts: the order and repetitions are in :stringValue.

Object property

:derivedFromSource

C_cont

derived from source en · tirée de la source fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/derivedFromSource

A source file the book's grammar was drawn from; provenance, recorded when one cares.

Object property

:embossedFrom

C_cont

embossed from en · embossé à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/embossedFrom

A braille volume raised, not pierced, by an embosser from a braille form file, or pressed from embossed plates.

Object property

:fallbackPlacement

C_cont

fallback placement en · placement de repli fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/fallbackPlacement

Where the item goes when the placement the rule prescribes cannot be met ('at the head of the next page if there is room enough, otherwise on a page of its own'). Whether there is room is found by the typesetting process; the abstract grammar states only the order of preference and holds no value.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
Object property

:followsGrammar

C_cont

follows grammar en · suit la grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/followsGrammar

The abstract visual grammar in force for the book this encoded text is: where its global layout is decided. Not a property of :Book (the Expression): placement is not linguistic, and two editions of one Expression may follow different grammars.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous).
Object property

:forScope

C_cont

for scope en · pour la portée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/forScope

Optionally, the kind of scope a rule is for, when the placement of an annotating element depends on what it annotates (after Haralambous): an illustration whose scope is a location between paragraphs may be set exactly there, one whose scope is a location inside a paragraph at the end of that paragraph, one attached to the whole book as a frontispiece.

v0.6.9: range :ScopeKind (was a class named by punning, which could not tell a location between paragraphs from a location inside one).

Example. Three rules of one grammar: forScope :LocationBetweenParagraphs, prescribesFeature :AtItsLocation; forScope :LocationInParagraph, prescribesFeature :AtEndOfParagraph; forScope :LocationScope, prescribesFeature :AtHeadOfNextPage, fallbackPlacement :OnPageOfItsOwn ('on top of the first page after the location, if there is room enough').

Object property

:hasBidiClass

C_cont

has bidirectional class en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBidiClass

The character's directional type for the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9): strong (L, R, AL), weak (EN, ES, ET, AN, CS, NSM, BN), neutral (B, S, WS, ON), and the explicit formatting controls.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesUnicode Bidirectional Algorithm, UAX #9 (Davis 2019); Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §4.4.
Object property

:hasBlock

C_cont

has block en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBlock

The contiguous code-point Block a character sits in (Basic Latin, Arabic, ...). Open code list.

Object property

:hasCase

C_cont

has case en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCase

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasGeneralCategory

C_cont

has general category en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGeneralCategory

The mandatory normative Unicode property (U§4.5) grouping characters by software-facing role; its finality differs from the linguistic :GraphemeClass (e.g. the logograms &, @, % fall under Po, emojis under So).

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesUnicode 12.0 §4.5; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §4.3.
Object property

:hasGraphemeClass

C_cont

has grapheme class en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGraphemeClass

Object property

:hasNarrator

C_cont

has narrator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNarrator

Object property

:hasParentRun

C_cont

has parent run en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasParentRun

The enclosing run. Its presence is exactly what disambiguates 'L1 A1 L2': if A1's run has the L1+L2 run as :hasParentRun it is EMBEDDED; if the three runs share one parent they are SIBLINGS at a single level.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasRule

C_cont

has rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasRule

Object property

:hasScript

C_cont

has script en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasScript

The Script property (UAX #24); values are ISO 15924 scripts (Latn, Arab, Hani, ...). Open code list, not enumerated here.

Object property

:inTradition

C_cont

in tradition en · dans la tradition fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inTradition

Object property

:includesImage

C_cont

includes image en · inclut l'image fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/includesImage

The image file an encoded illustration names: LaTeX \includegraphics, TEI <graphic url>, HTML <img src>, an OOXML relationship to word/media/.

Object property

:pointsTo

C_cont

points to en · pointe vers fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pointsTo

The encoded target of an encoded reference: an encoded location, or an encoded unit where the markup addresses units directly (TEI <ref target="#sec5">). No target: the reference is dangling (\pageref to a missing \label, :DanglingReferenceShape).

Object property

:prescribesFeature

C_cont

prescribes feature en · prescrit le trait fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/prescribesFeature

Object property

:producedByOCR

C_cont

produced by OCR en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedByOCR

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (scanning + OCR pipeline of Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Google Books).
Object property

:runBaseDirection

C_cont

run base direction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/runBaseDirection

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:spansTo

C_cont

spans to en · s'étend jusqu'à fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/spansTo

The end point of a location with extent: a Word bookmark (w:bookmarkStart ... w:bookmarkEnd), a pair of TEI anchors. The pair encodes a unit referent by its two ends, keeping the extent a single LaTeX \label loses; a page-range reference can be resolved from it.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
Object property

:spokenWithVoice

C_cont

spoken with voice en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/spokenWithVoice

Object property

:standsForUnit

C_cont

stands for unit en · tient lieu de l'unité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/standsForUnit

An encoded location placed at the start of an encoded unit stands in for the whole unit, as a LaTeX \label after \section does. The encoding replaces an extent by a point: enough for a page or number reference, not for a page range, which needs a second location at the end. A lossy encoding, recorded rather than hidden.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Object property

:synchronizedWith

C_cont

synchronized with en · synchronisé avec fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/synchronizedWith

Alignment of a recorded segment with the encoded text it reads (EPUB 3 Media Overlays, SMIL <par>): not a production link, since the recording was produced by a narrator's reading, but the link that lets text and sound be highlighted together.

Object property

:synthesizedFrom

C_cont

synthesized from en · synthétisé à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/synthesizedFrom

The encoded text a synthetic speech segment was produced from: the typesetFrom of sound.

Object property

:visualizes

C_cont

visualizes en · rend visible fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/visualizes

The discursive property a rule makes visible, named by punning (:isOptionalReading, :annotates): the motivation of a conventional form. A tradition chooses smallness and separation to show a note's subordination and optionality; a reader who holds the convention reads them back.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous).
Data property

:forMarkup

C_cont

for markup en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/forMarkup

Optionally, the markup name(s) the rule is keyed to when the grammar is bound to one markup vocabulary ('footnote', 'note[@place=margin]').

Data property

:hasCodePoint

C_cont

has code point en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCodePoint

Data property

:hasCombiningClass

C_cont

has canonical combining class en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCombiningClass

The canonical combining class (ccc), 0-254, used by normalization to order combining marks (0 = not reordered, 230 = above, 220 = below, ...). The paper's '54 classes of combining characters by diacritic position' are the named ccc values.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesUnicode 12.0 §4.3; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §4.4.
Data property

:hasEmbeddingLevel

C_cont

embedding level en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasEmbeddingLevel

The bidi embedding level (even = LTR context, odd = RTL context); a child run's level is deeper than its parent's.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasNumericValue

C_cont

has numeric value en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNumericValue

The numeric value of a character with a numeric property (Nd/Nl/No), as a string because Unicode admits fractions (e.g. '1/2', '3', '10000'); :hasGeneralCategory records which numeric subtype.

Data property

:hasSimpleLowercaseMapping

C_cont

simple lowercase mapping en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSimpleLowercaseMapping

Data property

:hasSimpleUppercaseMapping

C_cont

simple uppercase mapping en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSimpleUppercaseMapping

Data property

:isIsolateRun

C_cont

is isolate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isIsolateRun

True for a UAX #9 isolate (LRI/RLI/FSI...PDI), whose interior does not interact directionally with its surroundings -- the modern, recommended alternative to the embedding controls.

Data property

:locationKey

C_cont

location key en · clé d'emplacement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/locationKey

The key by which references find the location: the argument of \label, the xml:id of an anchor.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:markupName

C_cont

markup name en · nom de balise fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/markupName

The element name or command by which the encoded text labels the unit ('note', 'footnote', 'marginpar', 'fw', 'section', 'label', 'pageref'), with its discriminating attribute if any ('note[@place=foot]'): the label the abstract visual grammar keys its rules to.

Data property

:prescribesNumberingStyle

C_cont

prescribes numbering style en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/prescribesNumberingStyle

For a rule on a part of the book (:FrontPart, :BodyPart) or on a counted kind of unit: the numeral style of its numbering ('roman' for the front matter, 'arabic' for the body), which the typesetting process realizes as a :PageNumbering or a unit numbering.

Data property

:segmentEnd

C_cont

segment end (s) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/segmentEnd

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:segmentStart

C_cont

segment start (s) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/segmentStart

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:stringValue

C_cont

string value en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/stringValue

Characteristicsfunctional
Individual

:AboveAnnotatedElement

C_cont

above what it annotates en · au-dessus de ce qu'elle annote fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AboveAnnotatedElement

A caption set above its item (the usual rule for tables).

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:AboveTextBlock

C_cont

above the text block (head of the page) en · au-dessus du bloc de texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AboveTextBlock

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:AcrossOpening

C_cont

across the two pages of an opening en · sur une double page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AcrossOpening

Set across the verso and recto of one opening, across the gutter (:spansGutter): the illustration is divided between two pages and still seen whole.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:AlignedWithReferent

C_cont

level with its referent en · à la hauteur de son référent fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AlignedWithReferent

Set at the height of the line holding the referent (:annotates): the marginal note's position.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:Alphagram

C_cont

alphagram en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Alphagram

A distinctive, meaningless-per-se unit combined in second articulation (members of alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries).

Instance of:GraphemeClass
Individual

:AsFrontispiece

C_cont

as frontispiece, facing the title page en · en frontispice fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AsFrontispiece

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:AtEndOfBook

C_cont

at the end of the book en · en fin de volume fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtEndOfBook

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:AtEndOfDivision

C_cont

at the end of its division en · en fin de chapitre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtEndOfDivision

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:AtEndOfParagraph

C_cont

at the end of the paragraph that holds its location en · à la fin du paragraphe qui contient son emplacement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtEndOfParagraph

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:AtHeadOfNextPage

C_cont

at the head of the first page after its location en · en haut de la première page après son emplacement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtHeadOfNextPage

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:AtItsLocation

C_cont

exactly at its location (between two paragraphs, or inside a paragraph) en · exactement à son emplacement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtItsLocation

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:BelowAnnotatedElement

C_cont

below what it annotates en · au-dessous de ce qu'elle annote fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BelowAnnotatedElement

A caption set below its item (the usual rule for illustrations).

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:BelowTextBlock

C_cont

below the text block (foot of the page) en · au-dessous du bloc de texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BelowTextBlock

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:Bidi_AL

C_cont

AL — right-to-left Arabic (strong) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_AL

Individual

:Bidi_AN

C_cont

AN — Arabic number en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_AN

Individual

:Bidi_B

C_cont

B — paragraph separator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_B

Individual

:Bidi_BN

C_cont

BN — boundary neutral en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_BN

Individual

:Bidi_CS

C_cont

CS — common separator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_CS

Individual

:Bidi_EN

C_cont

EN — European number en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_EN

Individual

:Bidi_ES

C_cont

ES — European separator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ES

Individual

:Bidi_ET

C_cont

ET — European terminator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ET

Individual

:Bidi_FSI

C_cont

FSI — first-strong isolate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_FSI

Individual

:Bidi_L

C_cont

L — left-to-right (strong) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_L

Individual

:Bidi_LRE

C_cont

LRE — left-to-right embedding en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRE

Individual

:Bidi_LRI

C_cont

LRI — left-to-right isolate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRI

Individual

:Bidi_LRO

C_cont

LRO — left-to-right override en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRO

Individual

:Bidi_NSM

C_cont

NSM — nonspacing mark en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_NSM

Individual

:Bidi_ON

C_cont

ON — other neutral en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ON

Individual

:Bidi_PDF

C_cont

PDF — pop directional formatting en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_PDF

Individual

:Bidi_PDI

C_cont

PDI — pop directional isolate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_PDI

Individual

:Bidi_R

C_cont

R — right-to-left (strong) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_R

Individual

:Bidi_RLE

C_cont

RLE — right-to-left embedding en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLE

Individual

:Bidi_RLI

C_cont

RLI — right-to-left isolate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLI

Individual

:Bidi_RLO

C_cont

RLO — right-to-left override en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLO

Individual

:Bidi_S

C_cont

S — segment separator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_S

Individual

:Bidi_WS

C_cont

WS — whitespace en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_WS

Individual

:BookScope

C_cont

the whole book en · le livre entier fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BookScope

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:BreakableAcrossPages

C_cont

may run over several pages en · peut courir sur plusieurs pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BreakableAcrossPages

Broken between its parts (rows of a table, entries of a list) wherever the page ends, over as many pages as it needs.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:CaseLower

C_cont

lowercase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseLower

Instance of:LetterCase
Individual

:CaseNone

C_cont

caseless en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseNone

96.13% of Lo letters are caseless (Han, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries).

Instance of:LetterCase
Individual

:CaseTitle

C_cont

titlecase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseTitle

Instance of:LetterCase
Individual

:CaseUpper

C_cont

uppercase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseUpper

Instance of:LetterCase
Individual

:DistinctTypeface

C_cont

in a typeface or style distinct from the main text en · dans un caractère distinct du texte courant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DistinctTypeface

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:DivisionScope

C_cont

a division en · une division fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DivisionScope

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:EntriesSetApart

C_cont

parts set apart from one another en · parties séparées les unes des autres fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EntriesSetApart

Each entry of a list (each row of a table) set apart from the next by a cue: a new line, blank space, a bullet, a rule.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:GC_Cc

C_cont

Cc — other, control en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cc

Individual

:GC_Cf

C_cont

Cf — other, format (soft hyphen, ZWJ/ZWNJ, bidi controls) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cf

Individual

:GC_Cn

C_cont

Cn — other, not assigned en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cn

Individual

:GC_Co

C_cont

Co — other, private use en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Co

Individual

:GC_Cs

C_cont

Cs — other, surrogate en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cs

Individual

:GC_Ll

C_cont

Ll — letter, lowercase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Ll

Individual

:GC_Lm

C_cont

Lm — letter, modifier en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lm

Individual

:GC_Lo

C_cont

Lo — letter, other (caseless: abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, Han) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lo

Individual

:GC_Lt

C_cont

Lt — letter, titlecase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lt

Individual

:GC_Lu

C_cont

Lu — letter, uppercase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lu

Individual

:GC_Mc

C_cont

Mc — mark, spacing combining en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Mc

Individual

:GC_Me

C_cont

Me — mark, enclosing en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Me

Individual

:GC_Mn

C_cont

Mn — mark, nonspacing en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Mn

Individual

:GC_Nd

C_cont

Nd — number, decimal digit en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Nd

Individual

:GC_Nl

C_cont

Nl — number, letter (Roman, Gothic, cuneiform numerals) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Nl

Individual

:GC_No

C_cont

No — number, other (fractions, circled) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_No

Individual

:GC_Pc

C_cont

Pc — punctuation, connector en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pc

Individual

:GC_Pd

C_cont

Pd — punctuation, dash en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pd

Individual

:GC_Pe

C_cont

Pe — punctuation, close en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pe

Individual

:GC_Pf

C_cont

Pf — punctuation, final quote en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pf

Individual

:GC_Pi

C_cont

Pi — punctuation, initial quote en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pi

Individual

:GC_Po

C_cont

Po — punctuation, other (incl. logograms &, @, %) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Po

Individual

:GC_Ps

C_cont

Ps — punctuation, open en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Ps

Individual

:GC_Sc

C_cont

Sc — symbol, currency en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sc

Individual

:GC_Sk

C_cont

Sk — symbol, modifier en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sk

Individual

:GC_Sm

C_cont

Sm — symbol, math en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sm

Individual

:GC_So

C_cont

So — symbol, other (emojis, many dingbats, the bismillah ligature) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_So

Individual

:GC_Zl

C_cont

Zl — separator, line en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zl

Individual

:GC_Zp

C_cont

Zp — separator, paragraph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zp

Individual

:GC_Zs

C_cont

Zs — separator, space en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zs

Individual

:GraphemeClassLogogram

C_cont

logogram (grapheme class) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeClassLogogram

A global unit having a signified (&, §, $, €; Anis p.139). Pictograms are held distinct from logograms here, pace Anis.

Instance of:GraphemeClass
Individual

:HangingLabel

C_cont

label hanging, text aligned after it en · étiquette en sommaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HangingLabel

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:InAccompanyingMaterial

C_cont

outside the volume (atlas, accompanying PDF) en · hors du volume (atlas, PDF d'accompagnement) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InAccompanyingMaterial

Set outside the book: the atlas of a travel narrative, the PDF of illustrations shipped with an audiobook; the counterpart of :SpecialVolumeNote.

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:InPlateSection

C_cont

in a section of plates en · dans un cahier de planches hors-texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InPlateSection

Gathered with the other plates on leaves printed apart, often on another paper, and bound in as a section (:PlateLeaf).

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:KeptWhole

C_cont

kept whole en · insécable fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KeptWhole

Never broken by the text flow: kept on one page, across the two pages of one opening (:AcrossOpening), or on a fold-out (:OnFoldOut).

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:LargerThanMainText

C_cont

larger than the main text en · plus grand que le texte courant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LargerThanMainText

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:LocationBetweenParagraphs

C_cont

a location between two paragraphs en · un emplacement entre deux paragraphes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationBetweenParagraphs

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:LocationInParagraph

C_cont

a location inside a paragraph en · un emplacement à l'intérieur d'un paragraphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationInParagraph

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:LocationScope

C_cont

a location (any) en · un emplacement (quelconque) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationScope

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:NearItsScope

C_cont

at the head or foot of the page where its scope falls, or of the next en · en haut ou en bas de la page de sa portée, ou de la suivante fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NearItsScope

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:OnFoldOut

C_cont

on a fold-out en · sur un dépliant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OnFoldOut

Set on a leaf larger than the page, folded to the format and bound with the others (:FoldOutLeaf): the leaf is enlarged so that the item need not be broken.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:OnPageOfItsOwn

C_cont

on a page of its own (full page, full-page plate) en · en pleine page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OnPageOfItsOwn

Instance of:ScopePlacement
Individual

:ParagraphScope

C_cont

a paragraph en · un paragraphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParagraphScope

Instance of:ScopeKind
Individual

:RepeatedOnEachPage

C_cont

repeated on each page en · répété à chaque page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RepeatedOnEachPage

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:RunsParallelToMainText

C_cont

runs parallel to the main text en · court parallèlement au texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RunsParallelToMainText

A second flow beside the main one: a long footnote continues at the foot of the next page while the main text continues above it.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:SeparatedByBlankSpace

C_cont

separated by blank space en · séparé par un blanc fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeparatedByBlankSpace

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:SeparatedByRule

C_cont

separated by a rule en · séparé par un filet fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeparatedByRule

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:SetOffFromRunningText

C_cont

set off from the running text en · détaché du texte courant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SetOffFromRunningText

The whole set apart from the text before its first part and after its last: blank space, an indent, a rule, a frame.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:SmallerThanMainText

C_cont

smaller than the main text en · plus petit que le texte courant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SmallerThanMainText

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:Topogram

C_cont

topogram en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Topogram

Essentially punctuation: structures and segments sequences of alphagrams and logograms (Anis p.116).

Instance of:GraphemeClass
Class

:AxisSetting

C_form

axis setting en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AxisSetting

A chosen value on one design axis at a placement: the token's coordinate in the glyph's design space.

Class

:CSSStylesheet

C_form

CSS stylesheet en · feuille de style CSS fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CSSStylesheet

Sub-class of:GrammarSourceFile
Class

:CodeKind

C_form

kind of code en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeKind

CLOSED vocabulary: :ProgramSource, :DeclarativeMarkup, :SerializedStructure, :BinaryInstructionStream.

Class

:CodeListing

C_form

code listing en · listage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeListing

A text file decoded from a binary or compressed one so that it can be read in a code view: the output of dvitype for a DVI file, of qpdf --qdf for a compressed PDF, the XML parts of an unzipped .docx.

Sub-class offabio:DigitalItem
Domain of:listingOf
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2).
Class

:ConcreteSetting

C_form

concrete setting en · réglage concret fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConcreteSetting

The values a concrete grammar assigns to one kind of unit (:settingFor: the same punned class the abstract rule applies to).

Class

:ConcreteVisualGrammar

C_form

concrete visual grammar en · grammaire visuelle concrète fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConcreteVisualGrammar

The concrete visual grammar in force for one book (one per rendition: the printed PDF and the EPUB of one book follow one abstract grammar through two concrete ones): the effective values, once class, packages, preamble and overrides are merged, giving each rule of the abstract grammar precise values: fonts, sizes, lengths, rules, spacings (8 pt on 9.5; a 0.4 pt rule two inches long; \skip\footins; font-size: 0.8em). No single file holds it; its files are sources (:derivedFromSource, :GrammarSourceFile). It belongs to the digital-form corner by what it specifies, not by its file format, and is drawn on that corner's right edge, facing the abstract grammar.

It sets parameters, not outcomes: where a footnote lands, whether it splits across pages, which page a label falls on, is decided by the :TypesettingProcess applying it. One abstract grammar admits many concrete ones; a concrete one may break its abstract grammar (:ConcreteGrammarConformanceShape).

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:CoordinateSystem

C_form

coordinate system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoordinateSystem

Individuals:CartesianCS
Class

:DVIDocument

C_form

DVI document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DVIDocument

Class

:DesignAxis

C_form

design axis en · axe de fonte variable fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DesignAxis

One axis of a variable font's design space (OpenType axis: wght, wdth, opsz, slnt, ital, or a custom tag); the glyph is a family parameterized over the product of its axes.

SourcesEditorial (v0.4.x); OpenType Font Variations; Haralambous 2019 (point 7).
Class

:DigitalBookByForm

C_form

digital book by (fixed) form en · livre numérique de forme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DigitalBookByForm

A digital item that fixes the book's visual FORM (a frozen page layout), whether it stores that layout as page-description code (PDF, PostScript, DVI) or as raster page images (multipage TIFF, DjVu, a scanned PDF). Fixed form is orthogonal to whether the numeric text is recoverable: see :hasTextRecoverability.

Renamed from :DigitalBookByImage (<= v0.4): the old name, and the old subsumption of PDF/PostScript/DVI, wrongly implied these are mere images. They are page-description formats that DO carry numeric text (copy-and-paste, extraction), if less cleanly than raw text or SVG. Only genuinely bitmap documents are image-only (:ImageOnlyDigitalBook). The French label already said 'de forme'.

Sub-class offabio:DigitalItem
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 38; Haralambous 2019 (correction: fixed-form formats carry numeric text).
Class

:DigitalBookBySound

C_form

digital book by sound en · livre numérique sonore fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DigitalBookBySound

A digital item encoding the book as recorded (or synthesized) sound; the digital audiobook, heir of the Talking Book (AFB 1932).

SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 39; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4; Rubery 2016.
Class

:DirectFormatting

C_form

direct formatting en · mise en forme directe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DirectFormatting

Concrete values attached to one encoded unit rather than to a kind of unit (:appliesToUnit): LaTeX \small or \vspace{3mm} in the source, Word's direct formatting as opposed to its styles, an HTML style attribute. It bypasses the abstract visual grammar: visual markup inside the digital-content book.

Reported, not forbidden (:DirectFormattingShape, severity Info): often legitimate, and sometimes the very gesture a rule-breaking book is about.

Sub-class of:ConcreteSetting
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
Class

:DjVuDocument

C_form

DjVu document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DjVuDocument

Usually image-only, but can carry a hidden OCR text layer, so recoverability is per-instance; placed under :DigitalBookByForm, not unconditionally under :ImageOnlyDigitalBook.

Sub-class of:DigitalBookByForm
Class

:EmbeddedFontSubset

C_form

embedded font subset en · sous-ensemble de fonte incorporé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EmbeddedFontSubset

A font as embedded in a page-description file: usually only the glyphs the document uses, and usually without its layout tables (GSUB, GPOS), since the shaping has already been spent in the choice of glyphs. Without them, the embedded font is a repertoire again, as a font was before TrueType.

Sub-class of:Font
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); ISO 32000 (embedded font programs).
Class

:FixedLayoutBook

C_form

fixed-layout book en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FixedLayoutBook

A book whose page boundaries and numbering are properties of the item itself, identical across all copies and reading events (printed codices; fixed-layout digital facsimiles).

Sub-classes:PrintedCodex
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (contrast class).
Class

:Font

C_form

font en · fonte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Font

A concrete embodiment of a typeface: historically a cast collection of metal sorts, today a digital file; the term 'font' was adopted by digital media for the purchasable product.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary, s.v. 'Font', 'Sorts'.
Class

:FontFeature

C_form

font feature (OpenType) en · fonctionnalité de fonte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FontFeature

A named OpenType feature of a font ('locl', 'liga', 'kern', 'init', 'smcp', 'onum'), available under one or more language systems and implemented by lookups.

Class

:FormFixation

C_form

form fixation en · degré de fixation de la forme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormFixation

CLOSED, ordered vocabulary (:fixationRank): :FormFixedToMarks (5), :FormFixedToLines (4), :FormFixedToBlocks (3), :FormFixedToPageGeometry (2), :FormNotFixed (1).

Class

:FormatDocumentation

C_form

format documentation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormatDocumentation

CLOSED vocabulary: :StandardizedFormat, :PublishedFormat, :UndocumentedFormat.

Class

:GeometricTransform

C_form

geometric transform en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GeometricTransform

The linear part of an affine transform on the occurrence: rotation, scaling, shear (slanting), reflection. Translation is excluded: it is placement, carried by the myph sequence and the myph's displacement, not a feature of the myph's shape.

v0.6.12: translation removed (it was listed with the other transforms). A page-description language that works with a current transformation matrix (PostScript, PDF cm) combines both parts; the ontology separates them.

Class

:Glyph

C_form

glyph en · glyphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Glyph

A font-resident, reusable shape-bearing unit: it owns a mathematical shape (:hasShape), a glyph identifier, its designed optical size, and the font's kerning and ligatures. Distinct from the Unicode sense of 'glyph' (a structureless image): here the glyph carries structure, and :Myph is its placed occurrence in a document.

Bridge to the graphemics core via :isGlyphFor; the glyph/grapheme distinction is treated in the hara ontology. The type in the type/token pair whose token is :Myph — the font holds classes, the document holds instances.

Sub-classes:LigatureGlyph
SourcesEditorial (v0.4); cf. Knuth, METAFONT (glyph as mathematical outline); Borsuk 2018, Glossary (font = product).
Class

:GlyphShape

C_form

glyph shape en · forme de glyphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GlyphShape

The mathematical shape of a glyph: either a vector shape (Bézier surfaces, degree 2 or 3) or a raster shape (a matrix of pixel tuples); may decompose into subshapes.

Class

:HyphenationPatternSet

C_form

hyphenation pattern set en · motifs de coupure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HyphenationPatternSet

A set of Liang patterns (strings of letters with inter-letter digits, odd values permitting and even values forbidding a break, the maximum over all matching patterns winning), with its exceptions, for one language variety: a resource of the typesetting process, as a font is. It knows nothing of morphemes or pronunciation, but was learned by patgen from a hyphenated word list (prov:wasDerivedFrom) whose hyphenator did: a compiled approximation of a hyphenation regime.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
SourcesLiang 1983 (Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er); Knuth, The TeXbook, appendix H; editorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:IDMLDocument

C_form

IDML document en · document IDML fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/IDMLDocument

InDesign's XML exchange format: stories, styles, pages and frames with their coordinates, but no stored composition, so text reflows inside fixed frames. Content with form fixed down to blocks.

Class

:ImageOnlyDigitalBook

C_form

image-only digital book en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ImageOnlyDigitalBook

A fixed-form digital book carrying NO recoverable numeric text: pure page images. The only kind of digital-form book that is genuinely 'by image'.

Sub-classes:MultipageTIFF
SourcesHaralambous 2019 (multipage TIFF, image-only DjVu vs. PDF/PostScript/DVI).
Class

:InDesignDocument

C_form

InDesign document (.indd) en · document InDesign fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InDesignDocument

A layout program's native document: stories (text with paragraph and character styles, optionally an XML structure) placed in threaded frames with fixed coordinates on fixed pages, with the composed lines stored. Content as such and form fixed down to lines: a rich digital book, the paradigm beside the tagged PDF. Its styles are a concrete visual grammar carried in the file (:carriesGrammar).

That the composition is stored is inferred from the program's behaviour (it warns that text may reflow when an older document is recomposed); to be verified against an IDML export of the same document.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
Class

:KerningPair

C_form

kerning pair en · paire de crénage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KerningPair

An ordered pair of glyphs with a horizontal and/or vertical adjustment between them; a property of the font's design, not of any placement.

v0.6.13: in an OpenType font, what a GPOS pair-adjustment lookup (type 2) produces under a language system (:Lookup); kept as the font-design fact it expresses.

Class

:LaTeXClassOrPackage

C_form

LaTeX class or package (.cls, .sty) en · classe ou extension LaTeX fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LaTeXClassOrPackage

v0.5.16: a source, mostly of values assigned to the kernel's parameters (book.cls with size10.clo: \footnotesize at 8/9.5 pt, \skip\footins, \footnotesep); a package may also change the abstract grammar (footmisc's para option; an empty \footnoterule removes the separating rule). The kernel's mechanisms (insertions, the output routine, marks) supply the roles the abstract grammar draws on.

Sub-class of:GrammarSourceFile
Class

:LanguageSystem

C_form

language system (OpenType) en · système linguistique (OpenType) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LanguageSystem

A font-resident record of an OpenType font: a pair of a script tag and a language-system tag (dflt included), under which the font's GSUB and GPOS features are selected. The vocabulary is the font's, not BCP 47: a shaping engine maps the language of the text (sr) to a language-system tag (SRB ), and the mapping is not one-to-one (many languages have no tag and are shaped under dflt; Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin share SRB under two script tags). A font's language system implements part of a writing system's solution space of basic shapes: the locl feature of SRB substitutes glyphs that draw the Serbian basic shapes.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); OpenType specification, ScriptList and LangSys tables; Haralambous 2007, Fonts & Encodings.
Class

:LigatureGlyph

C_form

ligature glyph en · glyphe ligature fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LigatureGlyph

A glyph whose single shape renders two or more Unicode characters, its subshapes corresponding to the constituents (fi, ffi, æ). Ligation is a font-level fact; a document's myphs inherit it by instantiation. The intramorphemic-ligature shape (§5.11) constrains its placed occurrences.

v0.6.13: in an OpenType font, the target of a GSUB ligature substitution (lookup type 4), applied under a language system by a feature such as liga or dlig.

Sub-class of:Glyph
Class

:Lookup

C_form

lookup (OpenType) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lookup

One GSUB (substitution) or GPOS (positioning) lookup of an OpenType font: a typed rule over glyphs, run by a shaping engine when a feature that references it is applied.

Range of:hasLookup
Class

:MachineHyphenation

C_form

machine hyphenation en · coupure automatique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MachineHyphenation

The step of a typesetting process in which a pattern set is run on character strings: a machine reading of the word forms they encode, deterministic and fallible, whose results are :Hyphenation claims (prov:wasGeneratedBy). The printed counterpart of a synthesizer's grapheme-to-phoneme front end.

Domain of:usesPatterns
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:MakeUpMode

C_form

make-up mode en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MakeUpMode

CLOSED vocabulary: :DerivedMakeUp, :AuthoredMakeUp.

Class

:MultipageTIFF

C_form

multipage TIFF en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MultipageTIFF

Class

:Myph

C_form

myph en · myphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Myph

One occurrence, in a document, of a font's glyph: it carries the features of the OCCURRENCE that bear on its shape — mechanical size, colour, axis settings, the linear part of its transform (scaling, slanting, rotation) — and borrows its shape from the glyph it instantiates (:instantiatesGlyph). It normally does not own a shape, but may carry a per-placement generated one (:ownShape), as in André & Borghi's (1990) PostScript Type 3 random fonts. It carries no position of its own: it is placed relative to its predecessor in its myph sequence (:nextMyph, :xDisplacement, :yDisplacement), and its position on the page (:placedAt) is derived, or recorded where the format states it.

The instance to the glyph's class (the font holds classes, the document holds instances), as a pulled impression is to a metal sort, and as :Graph is to :Grapheme. The graphetic shapes of the monograph's graphetic module (Part II) quantify over myphs (baseline over the sequence's origin and the myphs' :yDisplacement, mechanical size over :hasFontSize) or over glyphs (font family, optical size). The name is a pun: mathematical + glyph.

Sub-classes:BrailleCell
SourcesEditorial (v0.4); cf. Knuth, METAFONT; the sort/impression relation in :Font's own definition.
Class

:MyphSequence

C_form

myph sequence en · suite de myphes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MyphSequence

A run of placed myphs on one line, in one font and direction: the output of shaping. The font's glyphs are individual types; applying the font's OpenType tables (GSUB substitutions, GPOS positioning) to a character string under a given script and language yields this sequence of tokens, in which each myph may depend on its neighbours (contextual, localized and ligature forms) and is placed relative to its predecessor. The sequence starts at an origin (:sequenceOrigin) and unfolds: each myph stands where the previous one's advance leaves the pen, moved by its own displacement (kerning, letterspacing, justification), so absolute positions are derivable but need not be computed. What a text-showing operator of the page-description language draws.

Renamed from :GlyphSequence (v0.5.8): a sequence of glyphs would be a sequence of font entries, before shaping; the sequence on the page is of myphs (v0.5.10, after Haralambous). The font's kerning pairs (:hasKerningPair, correspondence type :Kerning) are the rule; their application is visible here, in the :xDisplacement of the second myph of a kerned pair (v0.6.12; it was in the :placedAt positions).

Class

:PDFDocument

C_form

PDF document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PDFDocument

Fixed form, normally text-bearing; recoverability is per-instance (born-digital = :FullyRecoverable, a scan wrapped in PDF = :NotRecoverable). Not image-only by nature.

Class

:PageLevelSetting

C_form

page-level setting en · réglage de page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PageLevelSetting

Concrete values attached to one page, spread or frame rather than to a kind of unit or to an encoded unit (:appliesToPage): this image here on page 37, this frame narrower on this spread. The trace of make-up done by hand, following from no grammar and no unit of the text; the authored counterpart of :DirectFormatting.

Sub-class of:ConcreteSetting
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.7, after Haralambous).
Class

:PagePosition

C_form

page position en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PagePosition

A located position within a page's coordinate system: the origin of a myph sequence, the derived or recorded position of a myph, the position of a placed image or of a typeset anchor.

Class

:PlacedImage

C_form

placed image en · image placée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlacedImage

An image placed on a typeset page: a PDF image or form XObject, an EPS file included in PostScript, a DVI \special. A rectangle with a position, a size and possibly a clipping path, drawn from an image file (:drawsImage). The label 'illustration' is spent here as 'footnote' is: the page-description file knows a placed image, not an illustration; the caption beside it is an ordinary typeset block. Typeset from an encoded illustration (:typesetFrom).

Tables leave no unit of their own in the digital-form book: they become typeset blocks (one per cell or per row) and rules, and the grid is found again only by a reader or by layout analysis. A tagged PDF, which keeps <Figure> and <Table> structure elements beside the marks, is a :RichDigitalBook.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8); ISO 32000 (image and form XObjects).
Class

:PlacementAnchor

C_form

placement anchor en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlacementAnchor

CLOSED vocabulary: :AnchoredInText, :AnchoredOnPage.

Class

:PostScriptDocument

C_form

PostScript document en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PostScriptDocument

v0.6.2: program source in a programming language, written to be interpreted (a printer's interpreter; Display PostScript on NeXT screens), by a machine (dvips) or by hand. A PostScript file written by hand is a state of the digital-form book produced through reading; its interpretation by a printer is a mechanical transition.

Class

:RasterShape

C_form

raster shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RasterShape

A glyph shape defined as a bitmap, i.e. a matrix of number tuples.

Sub-class of:GlyphShape
Domain of:hasBitmap
Class

:ReflowableBook

C_form

reflowable book en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReflowableBook

A book whose text is liquid: line and page boundaries are computed per rendering from device dimensions and reader settings; pagination is not an item-level property.

Consequence: page-number-based constraints and citations are undefined here — the formal register of Borsuk's 'reflows into the reader's vessel of choice'. The pagination shapes of the conventions facet are therefore scoped to :PaperCodexFixed.

Disjoint with:FixedLayoutBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4.
Class

:RichDigitalBook

C_form

rich digital book en · livre numérique riche fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RichDigitalBook

A digital item that belongs to both digital corners: it fixes a visual form and also carries encoded content as such -- a PDF/A-3 with embedded XML, a tagged PDF with its structure tree, a PDF enclosing its LaTeX source. Hybrid by construction, not by accident.

v0.5.15: read as the top of a gradient. A rich digital book carries content as such and fixes form at least down to lines (:formFixedAt): a tagged PDF, a PDF/A-3 with XML, an InDesign document. An IDML file (form fixed to blocks) and a Word document (page geometry only) carry content and their concrete grammar but do not fix the form enough to be digital books by form.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9, after Haralambous); ISO 19005-3 (PDF/A-3); ISO 14289 (PDF/UA).
Class

:TextFrame

C_form

text frame en · bloc de texte (cadre) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TextFrame

A region of a page, placed by a person, into which a story flows; threaded to the next frame of the same story (:threadsTo). An object of authored pages: it exists before and independently of the text it holds. Its typeset blocks are the lines it received.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.7).
Class

:TextRecoverability

C_form

text recoverability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TextRecoverability

The degree to which numeric text underlies a fixed visual form.

Class

:Typeface

C_form

typeface en · police (dessin) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Typeface

The design of a coordinated set of letterforms — an idea, distinct from its embodiment as a product.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, Glossary, s.v. 'Font' (typeface = idea, font = product).
Class

:TypesetAnchor

C_form

typeset anchor en · ancre composée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypesetAnchor

A position on a typeset page that carries no ink: where an encoded location, or the start of an encoded unit, landed. A PDF named destination; the page-and-number record LaTeX writes to its .aux file for a \label. It has no materialization: printed or displayed, it becomes nothing.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous); ISO 32000 (named destinations).
Class

:TypesetBlock

C_form

typeset block en · bloc composé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypesetBlock

A sequence of contiguous typeset lines in the second direction of the script, within one page (and one column). The file records blocks, not paragraphs: whether a block begins, continues or ends a paragraph is not stated in a DVI or PDF, and is recovered only by interpretation.

Replaces :TypesetParagraph (v0.5.8), which claimed knowledge the file does not have (v0.5.9).

Range of:judgedUnit
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:TypesetLine

C_form

typeset line en · ligne composée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypesetLine

A line of set type on one baseline, part of a typeset block.

Domain of:breaksAt
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
Class

:TypesetPage

C_form

typeset page en · page composée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypesetPage

A page of a page-description document (a PDF, PostScript or DVI page): fixed layout, inside the computer. Printed or displayed, it becomes a physical or visual page.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
Class

:TypesettingProcess

C_form

typesetting process en · processus de composition fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypesettingProcess

The activity in which an engine (TeX and its descendants, a browser's layout engine, an XSL-FO formatter) applies a concrete visual grammar and fonts to an encoded text and produces a digital-form book: it breaks lines and pages, places each block, anchor and myph, increments the counters and resolves references. Here the notion of 'footnote' is spent: the output knows blocks, lines and myphs, not notes.

Cataphoric references (to a location not yet placed) are resolved only on a second pass, hence LaTeX's two runs (:passCount). For a reflowable book the process runs on the reader's device at display time and its output goes straight to a :PixelBook, with no stored digital-form book; the concrete grammar (CSS) is then applied per rendering, as pagination is computed per rendering.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Range of:typesetBy
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Class

:VectorShape

C_form

vector shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VectorShape

A glyph shape defined by Bézier contours (quadratic or cubic).

Sub-class of:GlyphShape
Class

:WordDocument

C_form

Word document (.docx, OOXML) en · document Word fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WordDocument

An Office Open XML word-processing document: content in document.xml (footnotes in their own part, linked by w:footnoteReference), a concrete visual grammar in styles.xml (:carriesGrammar), page size and margins in w:sectPr. It fixes page geometry only: lines and pages are recomputed at every opening, and the same file paginates differently on two machines. Not a rich digital book.

w:lastRenderedPageBreak records where pages broke at the last rendering: a trace, not a commitment. Bookmarks (w:bookmarkStart...w:bookmarkEnd) are locations with extent (:spansTo); PAGEREF fields store their last computed value in the file, stale until the fields are updated -- disagreeing references frozen into the source.

SourcesISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML); editorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
Class

:XSLFODocument

C_form

XSL-FO document en · document XSL-FO fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/XSLFODocument

The output of an XSLT stylesheet: every unit of the encoded text given its formatting object (fo:footnote, fo:block) and its values, before layout. It carries the book's concrete grammar expanded unit by unit (:carriesGrammar); the expansion adds nothing to the grammar but the deviations, which :DirectFormatting records. Not a stage of its own in the model.

Withdrawn in v0.5.16: :FormattingSpecification (v0.5.15), of which this was the stored case. In TeX the equivalent (the main vertical list with its inserts and marks) exists only in memory.

Sub-class offabio:DigitalItem
SourcesW3C, Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.1, 2006; editorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous).
Class

:XSLFOStylesheet

C_form

XSLT stylesheet producing XSL-FO en · feuille de style XSLT vers XSL-FO fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/XSLFOStylesheet

v0.5.16: a source of both grammars at once: its templates bind a markup vocabulary's labels to formatting objects (note → fo:footnote: abstract), its parameters give values (body.font.master, footnote.font.size: concrete).

Sub-class of:GrammarSourceFile
Object property

:anchorPosition

C_form

anchor position en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/anchorPosition

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:appliedFeature

C_form

applied feature en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliedFeature

A feature applied when the sequence was shaped, either by default for its language system (locl, liga, kern, the Arabic positional forms) or at the request of the concrete presentation grammar (smcp, onum, a stylistic set), in which case it realizes a :ConcreteSetting.

Object property

:appliesGrammar

C_form

applies grammar en · applique la grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesGrammar

Object property

:appliesToPage

C_form

applies to page en · s'applique à la page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesToPage

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:appliesToUnit

C_form

applies to unit en · s'applique à l'unité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesToUnit

Object property

:appliesTransform

C_form

applies transform en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesTransform

Object property

:breaksAt

C_form

breaks at en · coupe à fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/breaksAt

The hyphenation point at which this line breaks the word form it ends with. The line's last myph is then usually a hyphen that renders no character.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:carriesGrammar

C_form

carries grammar en · porte sa grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/carriesGrammar

A file that carries a book's concrete visual grammar: Word's styles.xml, InDesign's styles, a LaTeX preamble, an HTML <style> element, or an XSL-FO document, which carries it expanded unit by unit. The grammar still belongs to the digital-form corner by what it specifies; only its container is the content file.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15).
Object property

:codeKind

C_form

kind of code en · nature du code fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/codeKind

What a code reader meets when looking inside a file: program source, declarative markup, serialized structure, or a binary instruction stream.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2, after Haralambous).
Object property

:containsGlyph

C_form

contains glyph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/containsGlyph

A font is a depository of glyphs (shape + glyph ID + optical size), kerning pairs, and ligature glyphs — the class-level material the document instantiates.

Domain:Font
Range:Glyph
Inverse of:inFont
Object property

:containsMyph

C_form

contains myph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/containsMyph

A myph belonging to the sequence. Myphs are tokens, so they are genuine parts; their order is given by :nextMyph (v0.6.12; it followed their :placedAt positions).

Sub-properties:firstMyph
Range:Myph
Object property

:coversGrapheme

C_form

covers grapheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/coversGrapheme

The occurrence-level graphemes a (ligature) myph covers in this word — the compiled shortcut of the path subshape→character→grapheme, used by the intramorphemic-ligature shape (§5.11). Distinct from the type-level glyph↔character ligature decomposition. Occurrence-level because morpheme membership is a property of grapheme occurrences in a word, not of abstract graphemes.

Domain:Myph
Object property

:drawsBasicShape

C_form

draws basic shape en · dessine la forme de base fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/drawsBasicShape

The basic shape a glyph is a design of. A type designer draws basic shapes, not graphemes: a font's kappa and kappa-symbol glyphs draw |κ| and |ϰ|, and which grapheme each serves depends on the writing system. Normally one per glyph; the subshapes of a ligature glyph each draw one.

Domain:Glyph
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); Rezec 2009.
Object property

:drawsImage

C_form

draws image en · dessine l'image fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/drawsImage

The image file a placed image was drawn from, when known; a PDF usually embeds the image data and keeps no link to the file.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:embodiesTypeface

C_form

embodies typeface en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/embodiesTypeface

Domain:Font
Object property

:firstMyph

C_form

first myph en · premier myphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/firstMyph

The myph that stands at the sequence's origin.

Sub-property of:containsMyph
Range:Myph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:forAxis

C_form

for axis en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/forAxis

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:formFixedAt

C_form

form fixed at en · forme fixée jusqu'au niveau fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/formFixedAt

The deepest level down to which a digital item fixes the visual form of the book: every mark, lines, blocks (frames), page geometry only, or nothing. A gradient that replaces the either/or of fixed and reflowable form; a :DigitalBookByForm fixes form at least down to lines (:FormFixationShape).

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
Object property

:formatDocumentation

C_form

format documentation en · documentation du format fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/formatDocumentation

Whether the format of the file is described publicly, so that any program can read it. Independent of :makeUpMode: the binary .doc was undocumented until 2008; Scribus authors its pages in documented XML; Apple's Pages is undocumented in both of its modes.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.7, after Haralambous).
Object property

:hasAxisSetting

C_form

has axis setting en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasAxisSetting

The variable-font instance a myph selects: the per-axis values (including the optical-size value) fixing this placed occurrence within the glyph's design space. So in a variable font the optical correction is carried here, on the myph, not by instantiating a distinct glyph.

Domain:Myph
Object property

:hasDesignAxis

C_form

has design axis en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasDesignAxis

Domain(:Font ∪ :Glyph)
Object property

:hasFeature

C_form

has feature en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasFeature

A feature the font makes available under this language system.

Object property

:hasKerningPair

C_form

has kerning pair en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasKerningPair

Domain:Font
Object property

:hasLanguageSystem

C_form

has language system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLanguageSystem

Domain:Font
Object property

:hasLookup

C_form

has lookup en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLookup

Range:Lookup
Object property

:hasSetting

C_form

has setting en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSetting

Object property

:hasShape

C_form

has shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasShape

The shape is font-resident (a property of the class), never of a placement.

Domain:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasSubshape

C_form

has subshape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSubshape

Mereological decomposition of a shape; the target of a correspondence when one glyph renders several characters (ligatures).

Object property

:hasTextRecoverability

C_form

has text recoverability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTextRecoverability

How far the numeric (character-coded) text can be recovered from a fixed-form document; the axis that separates a text-bearing PDF from a scanned one.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:inCoordinateSystem

C_form

in coordinate system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inCoordinateSystem

Object property

:inFont

C_form

in font en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inFont

Domain:Glyph
Range:Font
Inverse of:containsGlyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:instantiatesGlyph

C_form

instantiates glyph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/instantiatesGlyph

The class-to-instance link: a myph is a placed occurrence of exactly one glyph, from which it borrows its shape and (by inheritance) the glyph's character correspondences.

Domain:Myph
Range:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:instantiatesGrammar

C_form

instantiates grammar en · instancie la grammaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/instantiatesGrammar

Object property

:isGlyphFor

C_form

is glyph for en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isGlyphFor

v0.6.13: derivable. A glyph is a glyph for a grapheme when it draws a basic shape (:drawsBasicShape) that the grapheme's writing system admits for it (:BasicShapeAdmission); the same glyph may thus be a glyph for different graphemes in different writing systems (the dotless i).

Domain:Glyph
Object property

:kernFirst

C_form

kern first en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/kernFirst

Range:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:kernSecond

C_form

kern second en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/kernSecond

Range:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:listingOf

C_form

listing of en · listage de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/listingOf

The file the listing was decoded from: a mechanical transition.

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:makeUpMode

C_form

make-up mode en · mode de mise en pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/makeUpMode

Whether the pages of the document, as edited, are derived from the text stream by an algorithm (Word, Google Docs, LaTeX) or authored as objects into which the text is poured (InDesign, QuarkXPress, Scribus, Affinity). A property of the working document, by its default: both families borrow from each other (text boxes fixed on the page; automatic addition of pages).

Tests: inserting text moves everything downstream (derived) or reflows one story in fixed frames (authored); overset text is possible only where pages are authored; an authored page is an object that can be selected or left empty; a placed object is anchored in the text (derived) or on the page (authored). In the material row make-up is always through reading (:madeUpFrom ⊑ :producedThroughReading); in the digital row it is mechanical where pages are derived. :formFixedAt follows from the mode: authored pages carry decisions no algorithm recomputes, so they must be stored.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.7, after Haralambous).
Object property

:nextMyph

C_form

next myph en · myphe suivant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/nextMyph

The myph that follows this one in its sequence, in the drawing order of the file, which need not be the reading order. Its functionality is why myphs are individuals, one per occurrence: two occurrences of the same glyph with the same features have different successors.

Domain:Myph
Range:Myph
Inverse of:previousMyph
Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous).
Object property

:onPage

C_form

on page en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/onPage

Object property

:ownShape

C_form

own shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ownShape

A shape carried by the myph itself, overriding the shape it would inherit from its glyph. Normally absent (a myph borrows the glyph's :hasShape). Present when the occurrence's shape is generated per-placement -- as in Jacques André & Borghi's (1990) PostScript Type 3 RANDOM fonts, where each instantiation draws a fresh outline, so no single font-resident shape exists.

Domain:Myph
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesAndré & Borghi 1990 (Dynamic Fonts); Haralambous 2019 (point 6).
Object property

:patternVariety

C_form

pattern variety en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/patternVariety

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:placedAt

C_form

placed at en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/placedAt

The absolute position of a myph on its page. Optional and derived: the sequence's origin plus the advances of the preceding myphs plus the displacements. Recorded only where the format states it for each glyph (a PDF producer setting the text matrix, Tm, per glyph; SVG x/y lists); a DVI file never does, and PostScript's xshow/yshow/xyshow state per-glyph advances, i.e. displacements, not positions.

v0.6.12: no longer a feature of the myph (it was, and the order of a sequence followed it).

Domain:Myph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:placedPosition

C_form

placed position en · position de l'image fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/placedPosition

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:placementAnchor

C_form

placement anchor en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/placementAnchor

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:previousMyph

C_form

previous myph en · myphe précédent fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/previousMyph

Inverse of:nextMyph
Object property

:readableOnlyThrough

C_form

readable only through en · lisible seulement par fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/readableOnlyThrough

The program without which an undocumented file cannot be read: the apparatus its legibility is conditional on, as a talking-book record's is on a turntable, except that this apparatus belongs to one company.

Object property

:sequenceOrigin

C_form

sequence origin en · origine de la suite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/sequenceOrigin

Where the pen stands when the sequence starts, on the baseline: stated outright by some formats (a PDF Tm, a PostScript moveto), reached by relative moves in others (a PDF Td from the start of the previous line, DVI right and down from the page's origin).

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous).
Object property

:setsTypeface

C_form

sets typeface en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsTypeface

Object property

:settingFor

C_form

setting for en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/settingFor

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:shapedFrom

C_form

shaped from en · mis en forme à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/shapedFrom

The character string whose shaping produced the myph sequence: the unit-level link from the digital-form corner to the digital-content corner, as :rendersCharacter is at the level of a single glyph. A fact of production, recorded when known; a DVI or PDF file often does not preserve it.

Sub-property of:typesetFrom
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.10).
Object property

:shapedUnder

C_form

shaped under en · mis en forme sous fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/shapedUnder

The language system of the font under which the sequence was shaped: what the font saw, in its own vocabulary. :shapingLanguage records the language of the text on the content side; the two may differ (a language with no tag of its own is shaped under dflt), and two runs in different languages may yield identical myphs.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous).
Object property

:subsetOf

C_form

subset of en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/subsetOf

Range:Font
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:threadsTo

C_form

threads to en · chaîné à fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/threadsTo

Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
Object property

:typesetBy

C_form

typeset by en · composé par fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/typesetBy

Object property

:typesetFrom

C_form

typeset from en · composé à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/typesetFrom

A unit of the digital-form book was produced by the typesetting process from a unit of the digital-content book: typeset block from encoded paragraph, encoded peritext element or encoded division; myph sequence from character string (:shapedFrom) or from encoded reference (its resolved value); typeset anchor from encoded location or encoded unit. A fact of production (resident), recorded when known: a DVI or PDF normally does not preserve it -- the loss the digital-form corner's far left stands for -- while a tagged PDF (:RichDigitalBook) does. Allowed pairs: :TypesettingLevelShape.

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Sub-properties:shapedFrom
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
Object property

:typesetsContent

C_form

typesets content en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/typesetsContent

Object property

:usesPatterns

C_form

uses patterns en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesPatterns

Data property

:advanceHeight

C_form

advance height en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/advanceHeight

The advance of the glyph in a vertical myph sequence (OpenType vmtx), in units of the em.

Domain:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12); OpenType vmtx.
Data property

:advanceWidth

C_form

advance width en · chasse fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/advanceWidth

How far the glyph moves the pen in a horizontal myph sequence, in units of the em (OpenType hmtx), so that a myph's actual advance is this value at the myph's :hasFontSize (and, in a variable font, at its :AxisSetting values). Zero for most combining marks. With the myphs' displacements, it is what makes absolute positions derivable.

Domain:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous); OpenType hmtx.
Data property

:assignedNumber

C_form

assigned number en · numéro attribué fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/assignedNumber

The number the typesetting process's counters assigned to the unit this anchor belongs to (section 5, note 12): the value a :ByNumber reference must agree with.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:axisDefault

C_form

axis default en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisDefault

Data property

:axisMax

C_form

axis maximum en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisMax

Data property

:axisMin

C_form

axis minimum en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisMin

Data property

:axisTag

C_form

axis tag en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisTag

The four-character axis tag, e.g. 'wght', 'wdth', 'opsz', 'slnt'.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:featureTag

C_form

feature tag en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/featureTag

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:fixationRank

C_form

fixation rank en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/fixationRank

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasBitmap

C_form

has bitmap en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBitmap

Data property

:hasContour

C_form

has contour en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasContour

Serialization of the outline (e.g. an SVG-path / font-outline spec); the curve data is carried as a string, not expanded into RDF.

Data property

:hasFontSize

C_form

has font size en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasFontSize

The 'instance' font size: the mechanical point-size adjustment of this occurrence, distinct from the glyph's designed :hasOpticalSize.

Domain:Myph
Data property

:hasGlyphID

C_form

has glyph ID en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGlyphID

The font-internal identifier of the glyph.

Domain:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasMyphColor

C_form

has myph colour en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMyphColor

Domain:Myph
Data property

:hasOpticalSize

C_form

has optical size en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOpticalSize

The 'class' font size: the size the glyph is designed for. An optical-size change is modeled as instantiating a different glyph, not as rescaling a myph — which keeps the class/instance split intact for optical fonts. In a VARIABLE font, however, optical size is instead one design axis (:DesignAxis, tag 'opsz'), and the value chosen at a placement is a myph-level :AxisSetting rather than a distinct glyph -- so there the optical correction is a myph property (point 7).

Domain:Glyph
Data property

:hasOversetText

C_form

has overset text en · texte en excédent fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOversetText

The last frame of a story cannot hold the rest of the text: the authored page refuses the text. Impossible where pages are derived.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:horizontalKern

C_form

horizontal kern en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/horizontalKern

Data property

:languageSystemTag

C_form

language-system tag en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/languageSystemTag

The four-character OpenType language-system tag ('SRB ', 'ROM ', 'TRK ', 'NLD '), or 'dflt' for the script's default language system.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:lookupTable

C_form

lookup table en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/lookupTable

'GSUB' or 'GPOS'.

Domain:Lookup
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:lookupType

C_form

lookup type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/lookupType

The OpenType lookup type within its table (GSUB 4 ligature substitution, GPOS 2 pair adjustment, GPOS 4 mark-to-base attachment, ...).

Domain:Lookup
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:passCount

C_form

pass count en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/passCount

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:polynomialDegree

C_form

polynomial degree en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/polynomialDegree

2 (quadratic) or 3 (cubic).

Data property

:resolvedNumber

C_form

resolved number en · numéro résolu fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/resolvedNumber

For a page or number reference, the resolved value as an integer within its numbering (roman or Greek numerals reduced, as :numberValue does); for a page range, its first page.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:resolvedNumberTo

C_form

resolved number (end of range) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/resolvedNumberTo

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:resolvedValue

C_form

resolved value en · valeur résolue fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/resolvedValue

The value the typesetting process set for a reference, as printed ('42', 'xii', '5', 'Carrión and the book'), on the myph sequence typeset from the encoded reference. Absent while the reference is unresolved (LaTeX's '??'): :UnresolvedReferenceShape.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:retainsLayoutTables

C_form

retains layout tables en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/retainsLayoutTables

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:scriptTag

C_form

script tag en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scriptTag

The OpenType script tag ('latn', 'cyrl', 'arab', 'khmr', 'deva' or 'dev2'). It also selects the shaping engine's script-specific behaviour (the Khmer reordering), and differs from ISO 15924 where a script has several generations of shaping ('deva', 'dev2').

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:setsFontSize

C_form

sets font size (pt) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsFontSize

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:setsLeading

C_form

sets leading (pt) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsLeading

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:setsParameter

C_form

sets parameter en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsParameter

Any further parameter, as written in the grammar's own language ('\skip\footins=12pt plus 4pt', 'margin-top: 2em'): recorded, not interpreted.

Data property

:settingValue

C_form

setting value en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/settingValue

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:shapingLanguage

C_form

shaping language en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/shapingLanguage

The language (BCP 47 tag) under which the sequence was shaped, which selects localized forms (OpenType locl): the same string yields different myphs for sr and ru.

v0.6.13: the content-side provenance of the run. What the font saw is :shapedUnder, a language system in the font's own vocabulary.

Data property

:verticalKern

C_form

vertical kern en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/verticalKern

Data property

:xCoord

C_form

x en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/xCoord

Data property

:xDisplacement

C_form

x displacement en · déplacement horizontal fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/xDisplacement

How far the myph is moved, along the first axis of the page's coordinate system, from where its predecessor's advance left the pen (for the first myph, from the sequence's origin). Zero when absent. Kerning, letterspacing, the stretch or shrink of justification, the adjustments of a PDF TJ array and those of PostScript's ashow, widthshow and kshow are stored here; so is the offset a font's anchor tables give a combining mark, whose own advance is zero.

Domain:Myph
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous).
Data property

:yCoord

C_form

y en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/yCoord

Data property

:yDisplacement

C_form

y displacement en · déplacement vertical fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/yDisplacement

The displacement along the second axis: zero for a myph on the baseline, non-zero for a superscript set within the sequence, a combining mark raised above its base, or a raised or lowered glyph (TeX \raise).

Domain:Myph
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12).
Individual

:AnchoredInText

C_form

anchored in the text en · ancré dans le texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnchoredInText

Positioned relative to a point of the text stream, and travelling with it.

Instance of:PlacementAnchor
Individual

:AnchoredOnPage

C_form

anchored on the page en · ancré sur la page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnchoredOnPage

Positioned by page coordinates, independently of the text.

Instance of:PlacementAnchor
Individual

:AuthoredMakeUp

C_form

authored pages (make-up through reading) en · pages construites fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthoredMakeUp

Pages and frames built as objects by a person looking at the page, the text flowing into threaded frames; make-up is a transition through reading. A frame may refuse text (overset).

Instance of:MakeUpMode
Individual

:BinaryInstructionStream

C_form

binary instruction stream en · flot d'instructions binaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BinaryInstructionStream

Binary opcodes interpreted by a driver, not source code, readable only through a listing: DVI (interpreted by dvips and previewers).

Instance of:CodeKind
Individual

:CartesianCS

C_form

Cartesian coordinate system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CartesianCS

Individual

:DeclarativeMarkup

C_form

declarative markup en · balisage déclaratif fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeclarativeMarkup

Text parsed but not executed: XML, HTML.

Instance of:CodeKind
Individual

:DerivedMakeUp

C_form

derived pages (mechanical make-up) en · pages dérivées fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DerivedMakeUp

Pages computed from the text stream, the styles and the fonts at each rendering; make-up is a mechanical transition. The page is an optional view of the stream (Google Docs' pageless mode).

Instance of:MakeUpMode
Individual

:FormFixedToBlocks

C_form

fixed down to blocks (frames) en · fixée jusqu'aux blocs (blocs de texte) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormFixedToBlocks

Pages and frames with their coordinates are stored, the lines are not: text reflows inside fixed frames (IDML).

Instance of:FormFixation
Individual

:FormFixedToLines

C_form

fixed down to lines en · fixée jusqu'aux lignes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormFixedToLines

Pages, frames and the composed lines are stored; the myphs are placed again from them when the file is opened (an InDesign document, as long as it is not recomposed).

Instance of:FormFixation
Individual

:FormFixedToMarks

C_form

fixed down to every mark en · fixée jusqu'à chaque marque fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormFixedToMarks

Every mark is placed: each myph (PDF, PostScript, DVI) or each pixel (a scan, a multipage TIFF).

Instance of:FormFixation
Individual

:FormFixedToPageGeometry

C_form

page geometry only en · géométrie de la page seulement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormFixedToPageGeometry

Only page size and margins are stored; lines and page breaks are recomputed at every rendering (a Word document).

Instance of:FormFixation
Individual

:FormNotFixed

C_form

form not fixed en · forme non fixée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormNotFixed

No layout is stored: the form is computed per rendering (plain text, a reflowable EPUB, an XML source).

Instance of:FormFixation
Individual

:FullyRecoverable

C_form

fully recoverable en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FullyRecoverable

The complete character-coded text is present and cleanly extractable (tagged PDF, most born-digital PDF/PostScript/DVI, SVG-with-text).

Individual

:NotRecoverable

C_form

not recoverable (image-only) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NotRecoverable

No character-coded text underlies the form; the page is pixels only (multipage TIFF, DjVu without a text layer, a scan with no OCR).

Individual

:PartiallyRecoverable

C_form

partially recoverable en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PartiallyRecoverable

Some numeric text is present but extraction is lossy or disordered (untagged PDF with subsetted or re-encoded fonts, ligature and reading-order damage).

Individual

:ProgramSource

C_form

program source en · code source de programme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ProgramSource

Text in a programming language, written to be interpreted, by humans or by machines: TeX and LaTeX, PostScript (as Python or Perl).

Instance of:CodeKind
Individual

:PublishedFormat

C_form

published by its vendor or author en · publié fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PublishedFormat

Specified publicly but not standardized: IDML (Adobe), PostScript (Adobe's reference manual), DVI (Knuth), the binary .doc since 2008.

Individual

:SerializedStructure

C_form

serialized structure en · structure sérialisée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SerializedStructure

A machine-written set of objects, only partly code: in PDF, the content streams are in a restricted operator language without control flow, the other objects are resources, much of them binary (fonts, images).

Instance of:CodeKind
Individual

:StandardizedFormat

C_form

standardized en · normalisé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/StandardizedFormat

Specified by a standards body: OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500), ODF (ISO/IEC 26300), PDF (ISO 32000).

Individual

:UndocumentedFormat

C_form

undocumented en · non documenté fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UndocumentedFormat

No public specification: readable only through its vendor's program (the native InDesign document, QuarkXPress, Apple Pages). It admits no code view and no listing, only the vendor's views; when the program can no longer run, the file can no longer be read.

Class

:AuthorsCopy

M_cont

author's copy en · manuscrit d'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorsCopy

The manuscript or typescript the author delivers: copy in the printer's sense.

Class

:BraillePlate

M_cont

braille plate en · plaque braille fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BraillePlate

An embossed metal plate from which braille press runs were printed before computers: the forme of braille.

Class

:CopyMark

M_cont

copy mark en · marque de préparation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CopyMark

A mark written on the copy by the copy-editor (or the author) that labels a unit of the text ('fn', 'A head', 'ext.') or instructs its setting: the manual label, as a markup element is the digital one. It encodes the linguistic unit it labels (:encodes); :markLabel records the mark as written.

Example. v0.6.8: 'Fig. 3 about here' in the margin of the copy, the manual encoding of an illustration's scope (a location), the illustration itself being supplied apart as artwork (:Artwork); 'list' or 'NL' (numbered list) against a run of entries; 'table' against a typescript table.

Sub-classes:NarrationMark
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
Class

:CopyMedium

M_cont

copy medium en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CopyMedium

CLOSED vocabulary: :HandwrittenCopy, :TypewrittenCopy.

Class

:HouseStyle

M_cont

house style en · marche de la maison fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HouseStyle

A publisher's or printer's written rules of style and layout, shared by its books: a source of their abstract (and partly concrete) grammars. The level shared across books, alongside the tradition.

Sub-class of:GrammarSource
Class

:MarkedCopy

M_cont

marked copy en · copie préparée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarkedCopy

The copy as prepared for the printer: corrected and marked up by the copy-editor, whose marks label its units (this is a note, a head, an extract) and give instructions (run in, set in small capitals). The origin of the word 'markup'; remediated by the encoded text.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6); CMOS 17, ch. 2 (manuscript editing and marking).
Class

:MaterialBookByContents

M_cont

material book by contents en · livre matériel de contenu fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MaterialBookByContents

A physical object that carries a book's text from author to producer, where what counts is the words and not their look: the author's copy, the marked copy, the narrator's reading copy, a Monotype ribbon. The pre-digital counterpart of the digital-content book, which remediates it. It encodes the linguistic book (:encodes), with no linguistic units of its own.

Sub-class offabio:Item
Range of:onCopy
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
Class

:NarrationMark

M_cont

narration mark en · marque de lecture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NarrationMark

A mark on a reading copy instructing the voice: a pronunciation, a pause, 'announce note', 'end of side'.

Sub-class of:CopyMark
Class

:ReadingCopy

M_cont

reading copy en · texte de lecture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadingCopy

The copy a narrator reads from in the studio, marked for performance: pronunciations, pauses, how notes and headings are to be voiced, where each side ends.

SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 2-3 (Talking Book studio practice); editorial (v0.6).
Class

:SpecificationSheet

M_cont

specification sheet en · cahier des charges typographique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpecificationSheet

The book designer's typographic specification: typeface, sizes and leading of text, notes, heads and folios, measure, margins, spacing. A source of the book's concrete visual grammar, written on paper for the compositor.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6).
Object property

:copyEditedFrom

M_cont

copy-edited from en · préparée à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/copyEditedFrom

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:copyMedium

M_cont

copy medium en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/copyMedium

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:onCopy

M_cont

on copy en · sur la copie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/onCopy

Domain:CopyMark
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:markLabel

M_cont

mark label en · libellé de la marque fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/markLabel

The mark as written ('fn', 'A', 'run in', 'sc'): the counterpart of :markupName.

Domain:CopyMark
Individual

:HandwrittenCopy

M_cont

handwritten en · manuscrit fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandwrittenCopy

Instance of:CopyMedium
Individual

:TypewrittenCopy

M_cont

typewritten en · dactylographié fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypewrittenCopy

Instance of:CopyMedium
Class

:AbstractSoundingGrammar

M_form

abstract sounding grammar en · grammaire sonore abstraite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AbstractSoundingGrammar

The rules in force for one sounding book stating how each kind of unit, above all each kind of peritext element, is made audibly distinct: a note announced and read at the end of its paragraph, or omitted; a heading preceded by a pause; sides announced. The counterpart of the abstract visual grammar, and like it a tradition-scoped convention (the Talking Book studios' rules, later DAISY production guidelines).

SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 2-3, 8; editorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
Class

:Artwork

M_form

artwork en · document à reproduire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Artwork

A drawing, photograph or map supplied with the copy, apart from it, for reproduction as an illustration; the copy marks only where it goes ('Fig. 3 about here', a :CopyMark). Its form is fixed before composition, so it stands in the material-form region, as an image file stands in the digital-form one (:ImageFile :remediates :Artwork).

Sub-class offabio:Item
Range of:cutFrom
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:BrailleDisplay

M_form

refreshable braille display en · plage braille fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BrailleDisplay

A line of cells whose pins are raised and lowered electronically: the screen of touch, presenting tactile states (:presents) of a braille form file or of a text translated on the fly.

Domain of:presents
Class

:ComposedLine

M_form

composed line en · ligne composée (en plomb) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ComposedLine

A justified line of type: sorts set in the composing stick or by the Monotype caster, or a Linotype slug. Part of a galley, then of a made-up page.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some (:Galley ∪ :MadeUpPage)
Sub-classes:LinotypeSlug
Domain of:containsSort
Class

:CompositionMethod

M_form

composition method en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompositionMethod

CLOSED vocabulary: :HandComposition, :LinotypeComposition, :MonotypeComposition (phototypesetting left for later).

Class

:CompositionProcess

M_form

composition en · composition fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompositionProcess

Setting the marked copy in type, by hand or by machine, under the book's concrete grammar (:appliesGrammar): output galleys (:composedFrom). Remediated by the typesetting process.

Class

:CopyEditingProcess

M_form

copy-editing en · préparation de copie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CopyEditingProcess

Correcting and marking the author's copy for the printer: output a marked copy (:copyEditedFrom). Remediated by markup.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:Cut

M_form

cut (relief block) en · cliché fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Cut

A relief printing block -- woodcut, wood engraving, line block, halftone -- made type-high, set with the type in the made-up page and locked in the forme, so that the picture prints with the text. The material counterpart of a placed image; an intaglio image, which could not print with type, went instead on a plate leaf printed apart (:PlateLeaf).

Domain of:cutFrom
SourcesGaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford 1972; editorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:Forme

M_form

forme en · forme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Forme

Made-up pages imposed and locked in a chase for one side of a sheet, arranged so that the printed sheet folds into page order: the content wholly hidden in reversed lead, the far left of the material row.

Class

:Galley

M_form

galley en · galée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Galley

The tray on which composed lines stand before make-up: form fixed down to lines, not yet in pages. Remediated by TeX's list of lines before the output routine, and by a layout file whose lines are composed but not yet paginated.

Class

:GalleyProof

M_form

galley proof en · placard fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GalleyProof

Sub-class of:Proof
Class

:ImpositionProcess

M_form

imposition en · imposition fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ImpositionProcess

Arranging made-up pages in a forme so that the folded sheet reads in order (:imposedIn, :forFoldingFormat).

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:LinotypeSlug

M_form

Linotype slug en · ligne-bloc Linotype fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinotypeSlug

A whole line cast as one piece by the Linotype from brass matrices assembled at a keyboard: a line without sorts, corrected only by recasting it.

Sub-class of:ComposedLine
Class

:MadeUpPage

M_form

made-up page en · page mise en pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MadeUpPage

Lines cut from the galley into a page, with notes set at the foot, running heads and folio in place, page references filled in: the manual counterpart of the typeset page.

Class

:MakeUpProcess

M_form

make-up en · mise en pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MakeUpProcess

Cutting galleys into pages under the book's grammar: notes to the foot, heads and folios in place, page references filled in (:madeUpFrom). Remediated by the output routine and the second pass.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:MaterialBookByForm

M_form

material book by form en · livre matériel de forme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MaterialBookByForm

A physical object in which the book stands in type or on a master, its words hidden in matter: a galley, a made-up page, a forme; a master disc or tape, a stamper. The pre-digital counterpart of the digital-form book, which remediates it.

Sub-class offabio:Item
Range of:judgedUnit
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
Class

:Matrix

M_form

matrix en · matrice fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Matrix

The mould, struck from a punch, from which sorts of one glyph are cast.

Class

:MatrixCase

M_form

matrix case (die-case) en · châssis de matrices fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MatrixCase

The Monotype caster's grid of matrices, each at a position with a width in units of the set: the arrangement the keyboard's unit counting presupposes and the ribbon's codes address, as a DVI file addresses a font through its TFM metrics.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.1, after Haralambous).
Class

:MonotypeRibbon

M_form

Monotype ribbon en · ruban Monotype fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MonotypeRibbon

The punched paper ribbon produced at the Monotype keyboard, which drives the caster. Not an encoding of the text but the result of composition: the operator decided the line breaks and hyphenations when the justification scale showed the line full (so the ribbon holds word fragments, not words), and keyed the justification codes that set the interword space at casting (the ribbon is read backwards, so each line's justification comes first). Its perforations select matrices by their positions in the matrix case, which is how font changes (roman, italic, bold) are made: glyph selections, not characters. A line described as in a page-description language, like DVI's font-relative codes, except that interword space stays elastic until casting, like TeX's glue; and as TeX needs TFM files, the keyboard's unit counting presupposes the matrix case's arrangement (:ribbonForCase). Form fixed down to lines.

v0.6.1: moved from the material-content book (v0.6 wrongly called it an encoding of the text and the ancestor of the digital content file); remediated by the DVI file, not by the encoded text.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.1, after Haralambous).
Class

:PageProof

M_form

page proof en · épreuve en pages fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PageProof

Sub-class of:Proof
Class

:PlatingProcess

M_form

plating en · galvanoplastie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlatingProcess

Electroforming the stamper from the sound master (:platedFrom).

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:PressPrintingProcess

M_form

printing (letterpress) en · impression typographique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PressPrintingProcess

Printing sheets from formes (:printedFrom).

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:PressingProcess

M_form

pressing en · pressage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PressingProcess

Pressing records from the stamper (:pressedFrom).

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:Proof

M_form

proof en · épreuve fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Proof

A pull taken from standing type for correction.

Sub-class offabio:Item
Class

:RecordingSide

M_form

recording side en · face fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecordingSide

The stretch of a recording on one side of a disc (about fifteen minutes on a Talking Book record): the sounding counterpart of the page, into which the text is cut; announced sides are the sounding folios.

Domain of:sideNumber
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65-66.
Class

:Sort

M_form

sort en · caractère mobile (type) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Sort

A cast piece of type metal bearing one reversed letterform on its face: the metal occurrence of a font's glyph (:sortOfGlyph), cast from the glyph's matrix. Set in a line, it is a physical myph; printed, it leaves a graph (:materializationOf).

The font of the digital-form chapter was historically a cast collection of sorts (see :Font): the glyph/myph pair of the computer remediates the matrix/sort pair.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary, s.v. 'Sorts'; editorial (v0.6).
Class

:SoundMaster

M_form

sound master en · matrice d'enregistrement (master) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundMaster

The master recording of a narration: a wax or lacquer disc cut on a lathe, later a master tape. The sounding counterpart of standing type.

Domain of:recordedFrom
Range of:platedFrom
SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 2-3; editorial (v0.6).
Class

:SoundingFeature

M_form

sounding feature en · trait sonore fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingFeature

A relational, value-free sounding property of a kind of unit, stated against the main narration. OPEN vocabulary.

Class

:SoundingGrammarRule

M_form

sounding grammar rule en · règle de grammaire sonore fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingGrammarRule

One rule of an abstract sounding grammar: for one kind of unit (:appliesTo), the sounding features that set it apart (:prescribesFeature).

Class

:Stamper

M_form

stamper en · matrice de pressage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Stamper

The metal negative electroformed from the master through intermediate parts, whose ridges press the grooves of the records: the voice hidden in relief, as the text is in the forme.

Domain of:platedFrom
Range of:pressedFrom
Object property

:castFrom

M_form

cast from en · fondu dans fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/castFrom

Domain:Sort
Range:Matrix
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:castFromRibbon

M_form

cast from ribbon en · fondu d'après le ruban fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/castFromRibbon

The mechanical transition of Monotype composition: the caster, reading the ribbon with compressed air, casts and assembles the sorts of each line. No reading event.

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Domain:Galley
Object property

:composedFrom

M_form

composed from en · composé d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/composedFrom

Object property

:composesCopy

M_form

composes copy en · compose la copie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/composesCopy

Sub-property ofprov:used
Object property

:compositionMethod

M_form

composition method en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/compositionMethod

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:containsSort

M_form

contains sort en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/containsSort

Range:Sort
Object property

:cutFrom

M_form

cut from en · gravé d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/cutFrom

The artwork a cut reproduces. Mechanical (photomechanical) for line blocks and halftones; through reading for a wood engraving, in which an engraver copies the drawing by hand. Hence only :producedFrom, the kind being recorded on the process when it matters.

Sub-property of:producedFrom
Domain:Cut
Object property

:forFoldingFormat

M_form

for folding format en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/forFoldingFormat

The folding format the imposition serves (folio, quarto, octavo...): where production meets the carrier's gathering structure.

Domain:Forme
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:imposedIn

M_form

imposed in en · imposée dans fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/imposedIn

v0.6.1: imposition is a human transition (:producedThroughReading, read in the inverse direction: the forme is produced from the pages imposed in it).

Range:Forme
Object property

:inMatrixCase

M_form

in matrix case en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inMatrixCase

Domain:Matrix
Object property

:madeUpFrom

M_form

made up from en · mis en pages d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/madeUpFrom

Range:Galley
Object property

:makesAudible

M_form

makes audible en · rend audible fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/makesAudible

The discursive property a sounding rule makes audible (a note's optionality, announced so that the listener may skip it): the sounding counterpart of :visualizes.

Object property

:matrixForGlyph

M_form

matrix for glyph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/matrixForGlyph

Domain:Matrix
Range:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:platedFrom

M_form

plated from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/platedFrom

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Domain:Stamper
Object property

:pressedFrom

M_form

pressed from en · pressé d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pressedFrom

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Object property

:printedFrom

M_form

printed from en · imprimée d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/printedFrom

Sub-property of:producedMechanically
Range:Forme
Object property

:producedFrom

M_form

produced from en · produit à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedFrom

A state of the book in a production row was produced from an earlier state. Two kinds (v0.6.1): mechanical (direct, no reading) and through reading (a summary of the full cycle).

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.1, after Haralambous).
Object property

:producedMechanically

M_form

produced mechanically from en · produit mécaniquement à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedMechanically

A transition that involves no reading: casting from a ribbon, printing from a forme, plating, pressing, a typesetting engine's run. A direct, resident production fact.

Object property

:producedThroughReading

M_form

produced through reading from en · produit par lecture à partir de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedThroughReading

A human transition: the earlier state is presented, perceived, read and understood, and the next produced from that understanding (copy-editing, composition by hand or at a keyboard, make-up, imposition, narration). The direct link is a SUMMARY of a path through the observable and the linguistic book, as :realizesGrapheme summarizes scoped realizations; the reading event behind the step may be recorded with prov:wasInformedBy.

Object property

:pulledFrom

M_form

pulled from en · tirée de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pulledFrom

Domain:Proof
Range(:Galley ∪ :MadeUpPage)
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:recordedFrom

M_form

recorded from en · enregistré d'après fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/recordedFrom

Object property

:ribbonForCase

M_form

ribbon for case en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ribbonForCase

The matrix case whose arrangement the ribbon was keyed against.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:sortOfGlyph

M_form

sort of glyph en · type du glyphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/sortOfGlyph

Domain:Sort
Range:Glyph
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:casePosition

M_form

case position en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/casePosition

The matrix's row and column in its matrix case, the address the ribbon's perforations select.

Domain:Matrix
Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:sideNumber

M_form

side number en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/sideNumber

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:unitWidth

M_form

unit width en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/unitWidth

The set width of the matrix's sorts in units of the em (18 units in the Monotype system): the metric the keyboard counts, as TeX reads widths from a TFM file.

Domain:Matrix
Characteristicsfunctional
Individual

:AnnouncedAloud

M_form

announced aloud ('Note:') en · annoncé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnnouncedAloud

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:HandComposition

M_form

hand composition en · composition manuelle fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandComposition

Individual

:LinotypeComposition

M_form

Linotype (line casting) en · Linotype fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinotypeComposition

Individual

:MonotypeComposition

M_form

Monotype (keyboard and caster) en · Monotype fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MonotypeComposition

Two transitions: keyboarding, through reading (ribbon :composedFrom copy), and casting, mechanical (galley :castFromRibbon ribbon).

Individual

:OmittedInNarration

M_form

omitted en · omis fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OmittedInNarration

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:PrecededByPause

M_form

preceded by a pause en · précédé d'une pause fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrecededByPause

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:ReadAsDescription

M_form

replaced by a spoken description en · remplacé par une description orale fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadAsDescription

v0.6.8: an illustration voiced as its caption and a description of what it shows, or only announced and sent to accompanying material (:InAccompanyingMaterial).

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:ReadAtDivisionEnd

M_form

read at the end of its division en · lu en fin de division fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadAtDivisionEnd

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:ReadAtParagraphEnd

M_form

read at the end of its paragraph en · lu en fin de paragraphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadAtParagraphEnd

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:ReadWithHeads

M_form

each cell read with its heads en · chaque cellule lue avec ses en-têtes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadWithHeads

v0.6.8: a table linearized for the ear, each cell voiced with the row and column heads it falls under (:heads), as screen readers do: the table's orders survive the change of modality, its geometry does not.

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Individual

:VoiceChange

M_form

in a changed voice or register en · voix changée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VoiceChange

Instance of:SoundingFeature
Class

:AsemicBook

Φ

asemic book en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AsemicBook

DERIVED, not intrinsic: a book all of whose sustained graph-readings return :GraphemesAbsent -- every reading that perceives its marks as graphs finds no grapheme. Computed by aggregation over :ReadingEvent, never an owl:hasValue on the artefact (graphhood being reading-relative). Three distinct emptinesses at three layers: the blank book empties the MYPH layer (Dworkin); Flotsam sustains no graph-reading, only pictures, emptying the GRAPH layer; the asemic book has full graph/glyph layers but an empty GRAPHEME layer and empty :realizesGrapheme.

Sub-class of:ObservableBook
SourcesKettaneh 2024 (Michaux, Barthes, Twombly; eco-asemics); Schwenger 2019; Wiesner, Flotsam (2006) for the non-scriptural contrast.
Class

:AudioDivisionHeader

Φ

audio division header en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AudioDivisionHeader

Domain of:hasLevel
Class

:AudioParagraph

Φ

audio paragraph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AudioParagraph

Class

:BasicShape

Φ

basic shape en · forme de base fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BasicShape

A cluster of graphs representing, within a writing system, one grapheme (Rezec 2009): an abstract letterform between the concrete :Graph and the emic :Grapheme. Basic shapes cut across scripts and writing systems (the round O of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; the dotless i of French and Turkish), and the SAME basic shape may realize DIFFERENT graphemes in different writing systems, which is why the level is irreducible.

SourcesRezec 2009 (Grundform / basic shape); Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §2.1 (|a|/|ɑ| for <a>, |π|/|ϖ| for <π>).
Class

:BlockRole

Φ

block role en · rôle du bloc fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BlockRole

The part a visual text block plays in the paragraph a reader takes it to realize. CLOSED vocabulary: :InitialBlock, :MedialBlock, :FinalBlock, :WholeParagraphBlock.

A role on the correspondence, not a class of block: it is the reader's judgement (block paragraphs without indentation read either way; a reader opening mid-chapter infers continuation), and another reading, or a layout-analysis process, may judge differently (v0.5.9).

Class

:CodeGrammar

Φ

code grammar en · grammaire du code fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeGrammar

The minimal visual grammar of looking inside the code: one character per cell (:MonospaceGrid), the file's own line breaks shown as lines (:FileLineBreaksShown), every label shown as text (:LabelShownAsText); optionally :SoftWrapped and :SyntaxColoured. Not a book's grammar but a tool's; under it, peritext, and in form files positions and fonts, can be recognized only by explicit label.

Renamed from :SourceGrammar (v0.6.1).

Class

:CodeReadingEvent

Φ

code reading event en · lecture de code fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeReadingEvent

A human reading event whose observed state is a code view: reading a file's characters in a text editor. In a content file it reaches the text's meaning by way of the labels; in a form file (PostScript, a PDF content stream, a DVI listing) it reaches form through language, positions, fonts and glyphs named in words. When the view is syntax-coloured, the event is informed by a machine recognition (prov:wasInformedBy a :SyntaxHighlighting).

Sub-class of:ReadingEvent
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2, after Haralambous); cf. Spinellis, Code Reading, 2003.
Class

:CodeView

Φ

code view en · vue du code fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeView

A pixel book rendered from a digital file in a text editor (as opposed to a word processor or a viewer), under the code grammar: the file's characters in a monospaced grid, its own line breaks shown as lines, every label shown as text, raw or syntax-coloured, hard or soft wrapped. The minimal digital form: markup and code are made visible instead of being spent. There is no direct access to a digital file; the code view is how it is seen as text. Applies to content files (XML, TeX) and to form files (PostScript, uncompressed PDF, a listing of DVI).

Renamed from :SourceView (v0.6.1), which suggested that only source files are read so; PDF and DVI listings are read in the same way.

Sub-class of:PixelBook
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2, after Haralambous).
Class

:CollationElement

Φ

collation element en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CollationElement

A unit a regime sorts (a UTS #10 collation element): the collation orthographeme in that regime. Maps to grapheme(s) one-to-one, by CONTRACTION (several graphemes -> one element), or by EXPANSION (one grapheme -> several elements).

SourcesUTS #10 §3 (collation elements, contractions, expansions).
Class

:CollationRegime

Φ

collation regime en · régime de collation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CollationRegime

A decreed comparison scheme for a writing system, aligned to the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UTS #10) and ISO/IEC 14651: a tailoring assigning multi-level weights to collation elements and fixing variable-weighting and per-level direction. Plural: one writing system may have several (German DIN 5007-1 dictionary vs DIN 5007-2 phone-book; a CLDR/ISO 14651 root tailoring; the RAE ordering).

SourcesUnicode Collation Algorithm, UTS #10; ISO/IEC 14651; DIN 5007-1/-2; M&D 2022, §5.4 (Coulmas's 'sequence' and 'type of codification').
Class

:CollationWeight

Φ

collation weight en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CollationWeight

A UTS #10 weight vector for one collation element: primary (base), secondary (accent), tertiary (case), and a variable/quaternary level. Comparison proceeds level by level; equal vectors = a tie.

Class

:Correspondence

Φ

correspondence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Correspondence

A reified, typed edge between elements of two or more facets/corners; used when the edge is many-to-many or carries its own type/metadata (ligature decomposition, hyphenation split, event-scoped realization).

The between-corners counterpart of the within-corner rules of the conventions facet: rules constrain a corner, correspondences cross between them. Density is emergent from a small closed set of types, never a goal. Extends the graph-of-text lineage (GODDAG, LMNL, TAG) beyond the markup/content plane: those graph the content plane to handle overlap; this layer graphs ACROSS corners (form, content, perception), enabling path-shapes in which form-correctness is a predicate over content.

Class

:CorrespondenceType

Φ

correspondence type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CorrespondenceType

CLOSED vocabulary; extend only by dated, warranted addition (the facet's changelog).

Class

:Decree

Φ

decree en · décret / réforme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Decree

A dated act by a :RegulatingAuthority that establishes or reforms an orthography, an orthographeme inventory, or a collation regime. Its date makes divergences legible: the Spanish collation reform (1994) and the abecedario reform (2010) are two decrees on two application-inventories.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
Class

:Dingbat

Φ

dingbat en · ornement typographique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Dingbat

An individual pictographic or decorative mark that acquires meaning from context and collective use-convention rather than from a writing system's minimal pairs: a printer's ornament, a symbol such as the steaming-coffee-cup, a pointing manicule. Many are Unicode-encoded, mostly in general category So (:GC_So).

Distinct from a :GraphemeClassLogogram (which has a linguistic signified and belongs to the writing system) and from an emoji (a dingbat is typically monochrome type, an emoji a colour pictogram). A dingbat-reading is :Pictographic.

Sub-classes:Fleuron
SourcesHaralambous 2019; Unicode 12.0 (Dingbats block; general category So).
Class

:Fleuron

Φ

fleuron en · fleuron fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Fleuron

A floral or leaf printer's ornament with a standardized discursive role sedimented over centuries: e.g. the flower-like separator set mid-line between two hemistichs of Arabic verse, or the 16th-century printing-house flowers used as section dividers.

Sub-class of:Dingbat
SourcesHaralambous 2019 (Arabic mid-verse fleuron; 16th-c. printers' flowers).
Class

:FleuronPavement

Φ

fleuron pavement en · pavement de fleurons fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FleuronPavement

A texture or field built by tiling and combining :Fleuron instances, where the ornamental whole -- not the single fleuron -- is the unit of the reading: the decorative border, frame, or filled panel of early print.

SourcesHaralambous 2019 (fleurons combined into textures/pavements).
Class

:GeneralRule

Φ

general rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GeneralRule

Sub-class of:OrthographicRule
Class

:GivenRule

Φ

given (pre-existing) rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GivenRule

Sub-class of:OrthographicRule
Class

:Graph

Φ

graph en · graphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Graph

The elementary unit of the perception (observable) layer: a concrete written mark (ink on paper, pixels on a screen) individuated as a unit of writing in an interpretive act -- perceived by a human reader, or segmented from an image by a machine. The etic counterpart of the emic :Grapheme, exactly as a phone is to a phoneme.

Medium-neutral; :VisualGraph is its visual subclass, leaving room for tactile (Braille) graphs. Its individuation is itself act-relative (where one mark ends and the next begins), so correspondences from graphs are encounter-resident: see :Realization (and, for machines, :GlyphIdentification), scoped by :correspondenceWithin. A mark printed or displayed from a myph is linked to it by the resident :Materialization. Widened in v0.5.3 so that machine realizations have a source node.

SourcesEditorial (v0.4); grapheme/graph modeled on the phoneme/phone (emic/etic) distinction.
Class

:GraphematicSolutionSpace

Φ

graphematic solution space en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphematicSolutionSpace

The set of graphematically well-formed spellings of a linguistic unit (Neef 2005, 2015). Orthography selects the licensed member(s); the unlicensed rest are marked * in grapholinguistics.

SourcesNeef 2005, 2015; M&D 2022, §5.1, §5.3.
Class

:GraphemeMapping

Φ

grapheme mapping en · correspondance de graphèmes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeMapping

A reified, typed relation between two graphemes, typically of different writing systems: how they relate visually (equivalent, close, distinct) or by convention (transcription, keyboard).

SourcesHaralambous 2026 (the script typology: visual equivalence, closeness, distinctness, transcription, keyboard).
Class

:GraphemeMappingType

Φ

grapheme mapping type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeMappingType

Two orthogonal sub-dimensions: VISUAL (equivalent / close / distinct — grounded in the :BasicShape level: shared shape, :visuallyCloseTo, or neither) and CONVENTIONAL MAPPING (transcription / keyboard); a pair may carry one of each.

Class

:GraphemeStatus

Φ

grapheme status en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeStatus

The relation of a book's observable graph layer to the grapheme layer, fixed by whether the minimal-pair test (substitution changing a morpheme's meaning) is runnable, in principle applicable but not yet runnable, in principle inapplicable, or displaced by a non-linguistic sign system.

SourcesHaralambous 2024, ch. 3 (graphemics; the minimal-pair criterion); Kettaneh 2024 (asemic writing); Gaze 2011 (writing without language).
Class

:HumanReadingEvent

Φ

human reading event en · événement de lecture humaine fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HumanReadingEvent

A reading by a human, perceptually and bodily engaging an observable book. Equivalent to :ReadingEvent, whose definition it inherits; the name makes explicit, beside :MachineInterpretation, what 'reading' means in this ontology.

Equivalent to:ReadingEvent
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.3).
Class

:InterpretiveAct

Φ

interpretive act en · acte interprétatif fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InterpretiveAct

An activity in which marks are assigned interpretations, or linguistic units are evaluated against a norm. Identification: which grapheme(s) a graph realizes (:Realization) and, for a machine, which myph it is taken from (:GlyphIdentification), possibly several at once with weights (:probability). Evaluation (v0.6.5): whether a unit is lexical, correctly spelled, morphotactically well formed or grammatical, recorded as a :LinguisticJudgement generated by the act (prov:wasGeneratedBy). A human reader exercises a competence (a lasting disposition, realized in the act); a machine applies a trained or programmed procedure. Either way the result is graded and fallible, never crisp. Kinds: :HumanReadingEvent (= :ReadingEvent) and :MachineInterpretation (a language model's :MachineReadingEvent, or a :RecognitionProcess).

SCOPE. The ontology records the interpretations an act entertains and their distribution, not the route by which the candidates became available -- training, earlier readings, or a critical edition whose apparatus taught the reader that the editor prefers one reading and that other scholars argued for others. That route is deliberately out of scope: a reader who has absorbed an apparatus and then reads the papyrus carries its alternatives into her own reading event, and the model sees them there. A scholar's judgement is a human reading event like any other. What 'most readers see' remains an aggregate over interpretive acts, never a primitive.

Class

:Language

Φ

language en · langue fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Language

A language or language variety, at any level of a hierarchy (:isVarietyOf): a family, a language, a period, a dialect, a register. Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine, Modern Greek, Cypriot Greek are all instances, related by :isVarietyOf. Not a label: the hierarchy is part of the model.

Glottolog's 'languoid' is the model: one class for families, languages and dialects, ordered by a single parent relation. A BCP 47 tag may be attached (:languageTag) where one exists (v0.5.12).

Class

:LevelDirection

Φ

collation level direction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LevelDirection

Reifies a (level, direction) pair; direction reuses the reading-direction sense (:WritingDirection) and is independent of the script's own writing direction.

Class

:MachineInterpretation

Φ

machine interpretation en · interprétation machine fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MachineInterpretation

An algorithmic or mechanical process that assigns interpretations to marks or text. It perceives nothing: its input lies in the digital corners (:machineInput), bytes or pixels, never the observable book. Its interpretations are graded (scores over candidates) and fallible, like a human reader's. Kinds: :MachineReadingEvent (a language model, across strata) and :RecognitionProcess (OCR, HTR, layout analysis, one stratum at a time).

The agent is recorded with prov:wasAssociatedWith (a prov:SoftwareAgent), not :hasReader, whose domain is the human reading event. A human reading assisted by a machine (a screen reader, live OCR, a correction pass over an HTR transcription) is two acts, the human one prov:wasInformedBy the machine one, each with its own correspondences (v0.5.9, generalizing v0.5.3).

Sub-class of:InterpretiveAct
Domain of:machineInput
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9); PROV-O 2013 (SoftwareAgent, wasInformedBy).
Class

:MachineReadingEvent

Φ

machine reading event en · événement de lecture machine fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MachineReadingEvent

A language model 'reading' a text or a page image: a machine interpretation that, like a human reading, spans the linguistic strata -- graphemes, morphemes, sentences, paragraphs, and what they mean -- rather than a single one. The machine counterpart of the human reading event, and the one the monograph's generated-book chapter (closing Part II) is about.

'Machine reading' is the established term in NLP; the disjointness axiom below keeps it from implying that a machine reads in the human sense. Its agent is typically a :LanguageModel (prov:wasAssociatedWith). Narrowed in v0.5.9: OCR, HTR and layout analysis, formerly included here, are :RecognitionProcess.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.3, narrowed v0.5.9).
Class

:MusicalSegment

Φ

musical segment en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MusicalSegment

Class

:ObfuscationType

Φ

obfuscation type en · type d'obfuscation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ObfuscationType

A kind of graphetic method by which a text's information is hidden from, or made effortful for, the reader. The hara.tex trie: a passage is by default unobfuscated; where obfuscated, the concealment is unrecoverable or recoverable, and recoverable concealment is algorithmic (deterministic or nondeterministic) or symbolic. The leaves plus :NoObfuscation are the assignable values; :RecoverableObfuscation and :AlgorithmicObfuscation are grouping nodes (skos:broader).

Class

:Orthographeme

Φ

orthographeme en · orthographème fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Orthographeme

The elementary unit of a writing system's orthography: an emic invariant fixed BY DECREE of an instance (academy, ministry, standards body) for a given APPLICATION (:orthographemeApplication) — as opposed to the :Grapheme, whose invariance is fixed by the minimal-pair test. Application-relative and divergent: a mark may be an orthographeme in one application and not another.

The -eme marks an emic invariant; what is distinctive is the individuation criterion (decree, not commutation). An orthographeme is :groundedIn whichever layer its application privileges: collation orthographemes track the :Grapheme (distinctiveness needed for a sort key), pedagogical ones track the :BasicShape / ligature (production unity, learnability). Spanish ch: a grapheme (ch = one phoneme) elevated to a collation and, classically, a pedagogical unit (che). Arabic lam-alif: NOT a grapheme (lam+alif) but a mandatory ligature taught as one unit — a pedagogical orthographeme, decomposed in collation.

SourcesHaralambous 2026; M&D 2022, ch. 5; Neef 2015; the collation-vs-pedagogy split from the Spanish-ch and Arabic-lam-alif cases.
Class

:OrthographemeApplication

Φ

orthographeme application en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrthographemeApplication

The normative function relative to which a unit is decreed elementary. Open list; the inventories per application are independent and may diverge.

Class

:OrthographicRule

Φ

orthographic rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrthographicRule

A codified prescription of an orthography, cross-classified by SOURCE — :GivenRule (pre-existing: overlaps graphematic regularity) vs :SetRule (external only, exists solely as codified) — and by SCOPE — :GeneralRule (rulebook) vs :ParticularRule (dictionary/word-list entry).

SourcesNeef 2015 (systematic vs conventional orthography); Ewald 2007 (given/set, general/particular); M&D 2022, §5.3.
Class

:ParticularRule

Φ

particular (singular) rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParticularRule

Sub-class of:OrthographicRule
Class

:PhysicalBookView

Φ

physical-book view en · vue du livre physique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalBookView

The concrete, time-bound visual state a physical book presents to a reader: an opening of a codex, an unrolled stretch of a scroll, a tablet face, under a given light and angle. The material counterpart of :PixelBook. Not the book itself: the physical book is the lasting artefact that presents it (:presents).

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.5); Mak 2011 (the visual page is not the physical page).
Class

:PixelBook

Φ

pixel book (screen rendering) en · livre-pixels fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PixelBook

The concrete, time-bound visual state — the specific pixels — presented on a display during a reading event, generated from a digital item by a rendering interface under particular settings (font size, orientation, illumination). Token-level, unlike CIDOC E36 Visual Item, which names the prototype.

Merged: LIBRORUM :PixelBook (hcio) ≡ Borsuk-module ScreenRendering (prov). Two renderings of the same reflowable item may differ in pagination.

Sub-classes:CodeView
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 35; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4; PROV-O 2013.
Class

:ReadingEvent

Φ

reading event en · événement de lecture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadingEvent

A time-bounded activity in which an agent perceptually and bodily engages an observable book, following some path through part or all of its content. The path need not be end-to-end or in item order: it may touch a single unit (a reader opening the book for one word), revisit a unit many times, or skip and back-track. The book is 'produced new by the activity of each reading' (Drucker), a 'sequence of moments' (Carrión). The path actually followed is recorded by :realizedSequence (§5.9).

For :ReaderInstantiatedOrder books the realized sequence is a property of the event, not of the item. For gesture-driven digital works (Pry, Strange Rain) the event is constitutive.

Sub-class of:InterpretiveAct
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 3–4; Drucker 2003; Carrión 1975; Knowles 1967.
Class

:RecognitionCue

Φ

recognition cue en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecognitionCue

CLOSED vocabulary: :CueVisualGrammar, :CueExplicitLabel.

Class

:RecognitionProcess

Φ

recognition process en · processus de reconnaissance fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecognitionProcess

A machine interpretation confined to one stratum: optical or handwriting recognition (marks to glyphs and characters, :GlyphIdentification), layout analysis (typeset or image blocks to paragraphs; logical layout analysis, blocks to peritext elements such as notes and running heads, v0.5.14), a statistical comparison of hands. It recognizes; it does not read.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9, after Haralambous).
Class

:RegulatingAuthority

Φ

regulating authority en · instance de régulation fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RegulatingAuthority

The instance that decrees or codifies an orthography or a collation regime: a language academy, an orthography council, a ministry, a dictionary publisher, a standards body. Distinct from facet 6's :RegulatorAddressee (a regulator a paratext is ADDRESSED to); here the authority DECREES the norm.

Sub-class ofprov:Agent
Range of:decreedBy
SourcesM&D 2022, §5.2 (Nerius feature 1); e.g. RAE, Académie française, Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung, DIN, the Unicode Consortium / ISO.
Class

:Script

Φ

script en · écriture (système de formes) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script

A visual or tactile writing script: the inventory of letterforms / basic shapes, abstracted from any one language. Distinct from :WritingSystem (the written modality of a language): many writing systems use one script (French, German, Turkish: Latin), and one writing system may use several (Serbian; Japanese). There is no 'Cyrillic writing system', only the Cyrillic script used by the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian... writing systems. A grapheme is linked to its script directly (:inScript), since a writing system may use several (v0.5.12; formerly only through :inWritingSystem then :usesScript).

v0.6.11: visual OR TACTILE (braille is a script, Spitzmüller 2025; Meletis 2020: the marks of writing are visual and/or tactile).

Sub-classes:UnicodeScript
SourcesMeletis & Dürscheid 2022 (script vs. writing system); Haralambous 2026.
Class

:SetRule

Φ

set rule en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SetRule

External-only; may be unsystematic (codifies a variant outside the graphematic solution space, e.g. German *Majonäse, later rescinded).

Sub-class of:OrthographicRule
Class

:SoundingBook

Φ

sounding book en · livre sonore fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingBook

A book as aurally observable: the time-bound sound state perceived during audition of an audiobook or a read-aloud performance.

Sub-class of:ObservableState
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 42; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Talking Books).
Class

:SoundingChapterHead

Φ

sounding chapter head en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingChapterHead

Class

:SoundingDivisionHead

Φ

sounding division head en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingDivisionHead

Class

:SoundingFullSilence

Φ

full silence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingFullSilence

Class

:SoundingPhone

Φ

phone en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingPhone

Class

:SoundingProsodicPhrase

Φ

prosodic phrase en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingProsodicPhrase

Class

:SoundingSilence

Φ

silence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingSilence

Class

:SoundingSpeechRun

Φ

speech run en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingSpeechRun

Class

:SoundingTextBlock

Φ

sounding text block en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingTextBlock

Class

:SourceGrammar

Φdeprecated

source grammar (deprecated: use :CodeGrammar) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SourceGrammar

Equivalent to:CodeGrammar
Class

:SourceView

Φdeprecated

source view (deprecated: use :CodeView) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SourceView

Equivalent to:CodeView
Class

:StandardisationType

Φ

standardisation type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/StandardisationType

How a writing system's orthography came to be (M&D 2022, §5.1).

Class

:SyntaxHighlighting

Φ

syntax highlighting en · coloration syntaxique (processus) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SyntaxHighlighting

A lexer's recognition of the tokens of a file (tag, attribute, operator, string, comment), displayed as colour in a code view: a machine's reading shown to a human.

Class

:TauGraph

Φ

tau-graph (typographetic graph) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TauGraph

A visual graph produced by hot-lead typography or its perpetuators (typewriter, Monotype/Linotype, phototypesetting, computer), bearing two features inherited from metal type: an abstract box with a horizontal set-width and a vertical body-size, and a baseline (horizontal, or vertical for scripts such as Chinese or Mongolian). Bicameral scripts add uppercase-height and x-height. Baseline and body-size are properties of the tau-graph, not of a general graph — which is why the parity/baseline shapes properly range over tau-graphs.

Sub-class of:VisualGraph
SourcesHaralambous 2024, §3.1.1.2 (typographetics; the tau-graph), Figs. 3.1–3.2.
Class

:VisualBackCover

Φ

visual back cover en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualBackCover

Class

:VisualBackFlap

Φ

visual back flap en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualBackFlap

Class

:VisualBook

Φ

visual book en · livre visuel fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualBook

A book as visually observable: a time-bound visual state presented by a carrier -- a view of a physical book (paper, parchment, papyrus...) or a pixel book on a screen.

v0.5.5: was :PaperBook ⊔ :PixelBook, which mixed an item with a state and left parchment and papyrus books with no visual book.

Equivalent to(:PhysicalBookView ∪ :PixelBook)
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 41; editorial (v0.5.5).
Class

:VisualChapterHead

Φ

visual chapter head en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualChapterHead

v0.5.14: names a function the page does not have; retained from the spreadsheet. New data: a :VisualTextBlock with a :Realization to a :DivisionHeader, scoped to the reading that takes it as a head.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualCover

Φ

visual cover en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualCover

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualBook
Class

:VisualDivisionHead

Φ

visual division head en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDivisionHead

v0.5.14: names a function the page does not have; retained from the spreadsheet. New data: a :VisualTextBlock with a :Realization to a :DivisionHeader, scoped to the reading that takes it as a head.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualDustJacket

Φ

visual dust jacket en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacket

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualBook
Class

:VisualDustJacketBack

Φ

visual dust jacket back en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketBack

Class

:VisualDustJacketBackFlap

Φ

visual dust jacket back flap en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketBackFlap

Class

:VisualDustJacketFront

Φ

visual dust jacket front en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketFront

Class

:VisualDustJacketFrontFlap

Φ

visual dust jacket front flap en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketFrontFlap

Class

:VisualDustJacketSpine

Φ

visual dust jacket spine en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketSpine

Spreadsheet had 'VisualDusjJacketSpin' (typos).

Class

:VisualFrontCover

Φ

visual front cover en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualFrontCover

Class

:VisualFrontFlap

Φ

visual front flap en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualFrontFlap

Class

:VisualGraph

Φ

visual graph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualGraph

Perceived token of a glyph; bridges to :Glyph (digital-form) and :Grapheme (linguistic) via the hara core. The visual subclass of the medium-neutral :Graph.

Sub-classes:TauGraph
Class

:VisualHorizontalSpace

Φ

horizontal space en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualHorizontalSpace

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualLine
Class

:VisualInnerMargin

Φ

inner margin en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualInnerMargin

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualLine

Φ

visual line en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualLine

Spreadsheet pointed at ':TextBlock'; corrected to :VisualTextBlock.

Range of:hasLine
Class

:VisualLowerMargin

Φ

lower margin en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualLowerMargin

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualOuterMargin

Φ

outer margin en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualOuterMargin

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualPage

Φ

visual page en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualPage

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualBook
Range of:onPage
Class

:VisualPictureBlock

Φ

visual picture block en · bloc d'image fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualPictureBlock

A region of a visual page occupied by a picture (a drawing, a photograph, a diagram) rather than by lines of text: what a reading that takes marks as a picture (:perceivesAsPicture) attends to. Printed or displayed from a placed image (:materializationOf :PlacedImage) or, in letterpress, from a cut (:Cut); a reader takes it, usually with a caption block, as the body of an illustration (:Realization to :Illustration).

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:VisualPrintingZone

Φ

printing zone en · zone d'empagement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualPrintingZone

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualSpine

Φ

visual spine en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualSpine

Spreadsheet had 'VisualSpin' (typo).

Class

:VisualSuperblock

Φ

visual superblock en · superbloc fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualSuperblock

A group of visual blocks the eye takes as one unit, set off from the running text and divided by cues (new lines, blank space, bullets, rules, alignment): a column of entry blocks, a grid of cell blocks, a picture block with its caption block. Its blocks are part of it (dc:isPartOf). A reader recognizes it, through the visual grammar, as a list, a table or an illustration (:Realization, scoped to her reading); the same blocks with the cues removed would be read as paragraphs. Across an opening it spans the gutter (:spansGutter).

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:VisualTextBlock

Φ

visual text block en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualTextBlock

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualUpperMargin

Φ

upper margin en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualUpperMargin

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualVerticalSpace

Φ

vertical space en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualVerticalSpace

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualPage
Class

:VisualWord

Φ

visual word en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualWord

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualLine
Class

:VisualWordSegment

Φ

visual word segment en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualWordSegment

A fragment of a word broken across lines (hyphenation); the visual counterpart of the broken elements treated in the conventions facet.

Sub-class ofdcterms:isPartOf some :VisualLine
Class

:WritingSystem

Φ

writing system en · système d'écriture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WritingSystem

The written modality of a language (:ofLanguage): the French writing system is la modalité écrite du français. Its graphemes are realized by graphs whose shapes belong to one or more scripts (:usesScript): the Russian writing system uses the Cyrillic script, the Serbian the Cyrillic and the Latin, the Japanese hiragana, katakana, kanji and romaji. A script is not a writing system: there is no 'Cyrillic writing system'. Graphemes are writing-system-relative: <a> of the French writing system is not <a> of the German one, even when their graphs are identical; the mark 'Ν' realizes <nu> of the Greek writing system or <n> of the English one, and which is a reading's assignment, not a property of the mark.

Redefined in v0.5.13 after Haralambous: one writing system per language (variety). The earlier individuals named after scripts (:LatinWS, :GreekWS, :CyrillicWS, :ArabicWS, :HebrewWS, :HanWS) were category errors and are replaced by per-language writing systems.

Object property

:blockRole

Φ

block role en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/blockRole

On a block-level :Realization with exactly one source block: that block's role in the paragraph it realizes. The paragraph's blocks are the sources of the realizations sharing its target within one act.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:collatesUnit

Φ

collates unit en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/collatesUnit

Object property

:collationContraction

Φ

collation contraction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/collationContraction

Several graphemes weighted AS one element (UTS #10 contraction): old Spanish (c, h) -> ch, sorted after c; its ABSENCE is the 1994 reform (ch sorts as c then h). The Arabic lam-alif has NO contraction — it is decomposed to (lam, alif), the same decomposition its Unicode presentation form U+FEFB carries (a compatibility decomposition to U+0644 U+0627): the encoding mirrors the collation.

Object property

:collationExpansion

Φ

collation expansion en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/collationExpansion

One element weighted AS a sequence of others (UTS #10 expansion): German ä -> (a, e) in DIN 5007-2.

Object property

:comparisonDirection

Φ

comparison direction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/comparisonDirection

Object property

:corrFrom

Φ

corresponds from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/corrFrom

Object property

:corrTo

Φ

corresponds to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/corrTo

Object property

:correspondenceWithin

Φ

correspondence within en · correspondance dans fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/correspondenceWithin

Scopes an interpretive correspondence (:Realization graph↔grapheme; :GlyphIdentification graph↔myph, machine only) to the interpretive act -- a human or a machine reading event -- in which it holds. Every such correspondence has exactly one (:CorrespondenceContextShape); resident correspondences (encoding, rendering, materialization, ligature decomposition, kerning) have none. Replaces the v0.5 pair :correspondenceWithinReadingEvent / :correspondenceWithinAttribution (v0.5.2); :Attribution itself retired in v0.5.3. Named apart from module 6's :withinReadingEvent (domain :GenerationProcess).

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:decreedBy

Φ

decreed by en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/decreedBy

Relates an orthography, orthographeme, or collation regime to the authority that decreed it (optionally through a dated :Decree via prov:wasGeneratedBy).

Object property

:elementFor

Φ

collation element for en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/elementFor

The grapheme(s)/orthographeme(s) this element sorts; several for a contraction (ch for <c><h>).

Object property

:encodes

Φ

encodes en · encode fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/encodes

A unit of the digital-content book encodes a unit of the linguistic book: encoded division a division, encoded paragraph a paragraph, character string a sentence or word form, character a grapheme (:encodesGrapheme). Resident: the encoder's markup asserts it. Allowed pairs: :EncodingLevelShape (v0.5.12).

v0.6: also from the material-content row: a copy encodes the book it carries, a copy mark the unit it labels. No written-sentence classes duplicate the linguistic book's units.

SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12, after Haralambous).
Object property

:encodesGrapheme

Φ

encodes grapheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/encodesGrapheme

Reifies as an edge what was previously only prose (the Unicode character as a coded abstraction over graphemes).

Sub-property of:encodes
Object property

:eventOfItem

Φ

event of item en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/eventOfItem

Object property

:generatedDuring

Φ

generated during en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/generatedDuring

Sub-property ofprov:wasGeneratedBy
Object property

:graphOfMyph

Φ

graph of myph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/graphOfMyph

The graph is the mark printed or displayed from this placed myph: a fact of production (:Materialization), not of perception -- a reader perceives ink or light, never the myph. Where a MACHINE reading event must identify which myph (hence which :Glyph and :UnicodeCharacter) a degraded mark in a scan is, use a weighted :Correspondence of type :GlyphIdentification scoped to that event (v0.5.5).

Sub-property of:materializationOf
Domain:Graph
Range:Myph
Object property

:groundedIn

Φ

grounded in en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/groundedIn

The graphematic or graphetic unit an orthographeme keys on: a :Grapheme (collation), a :BasicShape or ligature (pedagogy). The choice of layer is what makes the two application-inventories diverge.

Object property

:hasBasicShape

Φ

has basic shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBasicShape

A basic shape (allograph cluster) by which this grapheme is realized in its writing system; non-functional (|a| and |ɑ| both realize <a>). The inverse is one shape to many graphemes across writing systems: the dotless-i basic shape is a :hasBasicShape of both French <i> and Turkish <ı>.

v0.6.13: the timeless shortcut of :BasicShapeAdmission, which adds a period, a condition and a source.

Domain:Grapheme
SourcesRezec 2009; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §2.1.
Object property

:hasCollationWeight

Φ

has collation weight en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCollationWeight

Object property

:hasCorrespondenceType

Φ

has correspondence type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCorrespondenceType

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasLevelDirection

Φ

has level direction en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLevelDirection

Per-level comparison direction (UTS #10 'backward levels'). French compares the SECONDARY level backward (from the word's end), giving cote < coté < côte < côté.

Object property

:hasMappingType

Φ

has mapping type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMappingType

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasReader

Φ

has reader en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReader

Object property

:hasSolutionSpace

Φ

has graphematic solution space en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSolutionSpace

Object property

:inScript

Φ

in script en · dans l'écriture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inScript

The script a grapheme belongs to, asserted only where the script is DISTINCTIVE within a text (:scriptIsDistinctive true): in Japanese, writing a word in katakana rather than hiragana changes its function (a loan, emphasis), so the script is part of the grapheme's identity. Where scripts are alternatives for whole texts (Serbian Cyrillic and Latin: one grapheme per phoneme in both, one orthography, almost mechanical transliteration) the script is not distinctive, the graphemes are script-neutral, and the script belongs to the graph and glyph level (v0.6.11; was asserted of every grapheme).

Domain:Grapheme
Range:Script
Object property

:inWritingSystem

Φ

in writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inWritingSystem

The writing system a grapheme intrinsically belongs to: a grapheme is always 'the grapheme x of writing system y' (<nu> of the Greek writing system; <a> of the French writing system, which is not <a> of the German one). Functional. A graph↔grapheme :Realization correspondence therefore does not name the writing system separately — it is inherited from the grapheme the reading picks — and script-ambiguity is a graph realized (across readings, or held open in one) to graphemes of DIFFERENT writing systems.

Domain:Grapheme
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesHaralambous 2026 (writing system is inherent to the grapheme); Meletis & Dürscheid 2022 (the grapheme is writing-system-relative).
Object property

:instantiatesBasicShape

Φ

instantiates basic shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/instantiatesBasicShape

The basic shape a concrete perceived graph is a token of.

Domain:Graph
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:isVarietyOf

Φ

is variety of en · est une variété de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isVarietyOf

The hierarchy of languages: Koine :isVarietyOf Ancient Greek :isVarietyOf Greek. Transitive.

Domain:Language
Characteristicstransitive
Object property

:machineInput

Φ

machine input en · entrée machine fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/machineInput

The digital book a machine interpretation processes: text (digital content) or an image or page description (digital form). The machine counterpart of :observes, which relates a human reading event to an observable book.

Object property

:mapsFrom

Φ

maps from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/mapsFrom

Object property

:mapsTo

Φ

maps to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/mapsTo

For the symmetric visual types (equivalent, close, distinct) order is immaterial; for :TranscriptionMapped and :KeyboardMapped it runs source→target.

Object property

:materializationOf

Φ

materialization of en · matérialisation de fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/materializationOf

A unit of the observable book is the printed or displayed materialization of a unit of the digital-form book: visual page of typeset page, visual text block of typeset block, visual line of typeset line, graph of myph (:graphOfMyph). A fact of production (resident), holding only when the observable book was produced from that file: a manuscript has no typeset counterpart, and a reflowed e-book display has visual lines that no typeset line fixes. Allowed pairs: :MaterializationLevelShape (v0.5.12).

v0.6: also from the observable book to the material-form book: a printed page of the made-up page, a printed line of the composed line, a graph of the sort that printed it, a sounding book of its master.

Sub-properties:graphOfMyph
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12, after Haralambous).
Object property

:observes

Φ

observes en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/observes

Object property

:ofLanguage

Φ

of language en · de la langue fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ofLanguage

The language whose written modality the writing system is. Every writing system belongs to exactly one language (variety): functional. A language may have several writing systems (v0.6.11): print English, Unified English Braille and Pitman shorthand are three writing systems of English, because their marks relate to the language in different ways (to graphemes, to clusters and whole words, to sounds). Two scripts relating to the same graphemes are not two writing systems but one using two scripts (Serbian Cyrillic and Latin). Where one might speak of two ways of writing the same language that differ in their units (polytonic and monotonic Greek), the model may also have two varieties in the :isVarietyOf hierarchy.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12, after Haralambous).
Object property

:orthographemeApplication

Φ

orthographeme application en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographemeApplication

Object property

:orthographemeOfSystem

Φ

orthographeme of writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographemeOfSystem

Object property

:orthographicallyLicenses

Φ

orthographically licenses en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographicallyLicenses

Selects, from a unit's graphematic solution space, the spelling(s) an orthography deems correct.

Object property

:orthographyOfSystem

Φ

orthography of writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographyOfSystem

Object property

:perceivesAsGraph

Φ

perceives as graph en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/perceivesAsGraph

A reading construes this mark as belonging to the written modality (an etic graph). The same mark may be :perceivesAsPicture in another reading; both coexist because a 2D mark supports both.

Range:Graph
SourcesHaralambous 2024, ch. 3 (the graph as etic unit); Gaze 2011 (reading, not writing, determines asemicity).
Object property

:perceivesAsPicture

Φ

perceives as picture en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/perceivesAsPicture

A reading construes this mark as a picture, not writing. Available for the same mark another reading perceives as a graph.

Object property

:perceivesObfuscation

Φ

perceives obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/perceivesObfuscation

The obfuscation a reading judges to be applied to the text or a passage of it; default :NoObfuscation. Reading-relative like graphhood and grapheme-status: which kind of obfuscation is at work — and whether any is — is decided in the reading, over a typology the ontology fixes in advance. Not functional: different passages of one reading may carry different kinds.

SourcesHaralambous, hara.tex §Obfuscation (proposal 3: typology in the ontology, assignment in the reading).
Object property

:primaryEquivalentTo

Φ

primary-equivalent to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/primaryEquivalentTo

Same primary weight within a regime (a tie at the primary level): German ä ~ a in DIN 5007-1, distinguished only at the secondary level, so größe and große are primary-equal — the source of non-totality.

Characteristicssymmetric
Object property

:readingGraphemeStatus

Φ

reading's grapheme status en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/readingGraphemeStatus

Property of a GRAPH-reading: whether its graphs realize graphemes -- i.e. whether this reading's :Realization correspondences (scoped to it by :correspondenceWithin) are populated. :GraphemesPresent (populated), :GraphemesAbsent (empty by constitution: asemic), :GraphemeStatusUndetermined (khipu/Voynich). :Pictographic and :NonScriptural mark readings that do not treat units as script-graphs at all. Scoped and sourced on the event.

Object property

:realizedSequence

Φ

realized sequence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/realizedSequence

The ordered sequence of content units actually traversed in a reading event (an rdf:Seq). It records the real path, so it may be partial (a single unit), may repeat units (a page read ten times), and may diverge from item order (skipping, back-tracking). It coincides with the item order only in the limiting case of a complete, linear reading of a fixed-total-order book, and is the event's chief product for recombinant books.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
Object property

:realizesGrapheme

Φ

realizes grapheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/realizesGrapheme

The etic realizes the emic, as a phone realizes a phoneme. Realization is reading-relative and possibly plural: each interpretive act (a human or a machine reading) that meets a graph assigns it its own grapheme(s), and a reader in doubt entertains several at once ('a t, or a k, or an l'). The asserted form is therefore always a :Correspondence of type :Realization, scoped by :correspondenceWithin to exactly one :InterpretiveAct and optionally weighted by :probability. This binary property is a DERIVED SUMMARY -- the graph is realized to this grapheme in at least one scoped correspondence -- and is not to be asserted directly (v0.5.1).

Domain:Graph
Object property

:recognitionCue

Φ

recognition cue en · indice de reconnaissance fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/recognitionCue

On a realization that recognizes a peritext element, a division header or a reference: what the recognition rested on. The visual grammar (the block is smaller, below, set off: conventional but motivated) or an explicit label read as language (a tag in a source view, the copy-editor's 'fn' on a marked copy).

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.1, after Haralambous).
Object property

:regimeOfSystem

Φ

regime of writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeOfSystem

Object property

:rendersCharacter

Φ

renders character en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rendersCharacter

A glyph renders one character; a :LigatureGlyph renders several (see :LigatureDecomposition).

Object property

:rendersItem

Φ

renders item en · rend l'item fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rendersItem

Relates a pixel book to the digital item from which it was generated: a link of production, not of perception.

Restored in v0.5.7 after its accidental deletion in v0.5.5.

Object property

:standardisationType

Φ

standardisation type en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/standardisationType

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:usesScript

Φ

uses script en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesScript

The script(s) a writing system is realized in (Serbian uses Cyrl and Latn; Japanese uses hiragana, katakana, kanji and romaji).

Range:Script
Object property

:viewGrammar

Φ

view grammar en · grammaire de la vue fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/viewGrammar

The abstract visual grammar under which a rendering is displayed: the book's own grammar, or the code grammar of a text editor.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:visuallyCloseTo

Φ

visually close to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/visuallyCloseTo

Two distinct basic shapes similar but not identical (|ß| of the Latin script and |β| of the Greek script). Symmetric; underwrites the :VisuallyClose grapheme mapping.

Characteristicssymmetric
Data property

:atLevel

Φ

at collation level en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/atLevel

Data property

:hasDiscursiveRole

Φ

has discursive role en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasDiscursiveRole

The conventional textual function a dingbat performs in context (verse separator, section divider, list bullet, emphasis, end-of-text mark).

Domain:Dingbat
Data property

:hasVariabilityDegree

Φ

variability degree en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasVariabilityDegree

Nerius feature 3: limited variability — usually one licensed spelling per unit; loanwords are the usual site of licensed variants.

Data property

:isExternallyCodified

Φ

externally codified en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isExternallyCodified

Nerius feature 1: rules laid down in writing by authorities of linguistic policy (councils, academies, dictionary publishers), not merely reconstructed from usage.

Data property

:isSociallyBinding

Φ

socially binding en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isSociallyBinding

Nerius feature 2: binding not by law but by social obligation; deviance is socially sanctioned.

Data property

:isStatic

Φ

static en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isStatic

Nerius feature 4: changeable only by official reform (a :Decree).

Data property

:languageTag

Φ

language tag en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/languageTag

A BCP 47 tag for the variety, when one exists (grc, el, el-polyton).

Domain:Language
Data property

:primaryWeight

Φ

primary weight en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/primaryWeight

Data property

:probability

Φ

probability en · probabilité fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/probability

A weight in [0,1] on a defeasible correspondence — chiefly a :Realization (graph↔grapheme), where a reader deciphering a hard hand or a corrupted, effaced or illegible graph hesitates between graphemes ('a t, or a k, or an l'): one weighted correspondence per candidate, all scoped to the same reading event; and, in a machine interpretation, a :GlyphIdentification (graph↔myph), where a recognizer scores candidate myphs (hence :Glyph and :UnicodeCharacter) for a degraded mark in a scan. How the reader came to know the candidates is out of scope (see :InterpretiveAct). The value means different things by kind of act: in a :HumanReadingEvent a subjective credence, in a :MachineInterpretation a model score (often a softmax output, not necessarily a calibrated probability); both satisfy the same distribution constraint, but they should not be compared as if they measured the same thing. The correspondences of one type sharing a source graph within one context form a probability distribution (:GraphIdentificationDistributionShape). Unicode's dotless letters removed one source of this uncertainty for pointed Arabic; deterioration restores it, and the weights shift with the palaeographic theory in force.

Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesHaralambous 2026 (proposal 1).
Data property

:regimeStandard

Φ

regime standard en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeStandard

Name/authority of the regime, e.g. 'DIN 5007-1', 'DIN 5007-2', 'UCA/UTS #10 root', 'ISO/IEC 14651', 'RAE 1994'.

Data property

:secondaryWeight

Φ

secondary weight en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/secondaryWeight

Data property

:tertiaryWeight

Φ

tertiary weight en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/tertiaryWeight

Data property

:viaKeyboardLayout

Φ

via keyboard layout en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/viaKeyboardLayout

For :KeyboardMapped: the layout(s) under which the two graphemes share a physical key.

Data property

:viaScheme

Φ

via transcription scheme en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/viaScheme

For :TranscriptionMapped: the scheme under which the two graphemes correspond (e.g. a TeX/Babel Greek transliteration mapping W to Ω).

Individual

:AlgorithmicObfuscation

Φ

algorithmic obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AlgorithmicObfuscation

Recoverable by applying an algorithm to the visible text (grouping node).

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Individual

:ArtificialOrthography

Φ

artificial en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ArtificialOrthography

Codified without a basis in prior use (a newly created system, or a reform overriding usage).

Individual

:Collation

Φ

collation (sorting / indexing) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Collation

The dictionary/index sort inventory, realised by a :CollationRegime (weights, expansions, contractions); typically :groundedIn the :Grapheme.

Individual

:CueExplicitLabel

Φ

by an explicit label en · par une étiquette explicite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CueExplicitLabel

Metalinguistic recognition: the element says what it is ('I am a footnote'), and the reader knows it is optional without seeing it as optional.

Instance of:RecognitionCue
Individual

:CueVisualGrammar

Φ

by the visual grammar en · par la grammaire visuelle fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CueVisualGrammar

Instance of:RecognitionCue
Individual

:DeterministicObfuscation

Φ

deterministic (algorithmic) obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeterministicObfuscation

The algorithm yields ONE recovery (Silverberg's binary→ASCII; Damasio's graphs raised from the foot of the page).

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Sourceshara.tex §Recoverable/Algorithmic (Silverberg; Damasio, La horde du contrevent).
Individual

:Encoding

Φ

encoding (character↔grapheme) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Encoding

Individual

:FigurativeRealization

Φ

figurative realization (an observable unit realizes a linguistic unit by its overall shape) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FigurativeRealization

The licensed exception to the level pairs: a text block whose outline forms a letter (micrography, a lettrine composed of text, typographic letter-art) is read as a grapheme; a page may be shaped as a word. The same block is ordinarily also read at its own level, so a figurative realization coexists with an ordinary one. Interpretive, scoped, possibly weighted; exempt from :RealizationLevelShape (v0.5.9, after Haralambous).

Individual

:FileLineBreaksShown

Φ

the file's line breaks shown as lines en · sauts de ligne du fichier fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FileLineBreaksShown

Lines are content: each newline character of the file starts a line. The opposite of the book view, where lines are computed.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:FinalBlock

Φ

final block (closes a paragraph begun earlier) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FinalBlock

Instance of:BlockRole
Individual

:GlyphIdentification

Φ

glyph identification (graph↔myph, in a machine interpretation) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GlyphIdentification

Interpretive: a machine interpretation (typically a :RecognitionProcess: OCR, HTR) assigns a mark in an image to candidate myphs/glyphs, with scores. Always scoped to a :MachineInterpretation. A human reader does not identify myphs; her interpretation of a mark is :Realization (v0.5.5).

Individual

:GraphemeStatusUndetermined

Φ

grapheme status undetermined en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemeStatusUndetermined

Meaning may be present but the script is undeciphered: the minimal-pair test is in principle applicable yet not yet runnable. Khipu and the Voynich manuscript are of this kind — NOT graphemeless, merely undetermined.

Instance of:GraphemeStatus
SourcesHyland 2017; Urton 2003; on the Voynich, Kettaneh 2024, §5.2.
Individual

:GraphemesAbsent

Φ

graphemes absent (asemic) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemesAbsent

Meaning is constitutively absent, so the minimal-pair test is in principle INAPPLICABLE (there is no meaning for a substitution to change), even though the marks may have visual paradigm and syntagm. The true graphemeless book: asemic writing.

Instance of:GraphemeStatus
SourcesKettaneh 2024; Gaze 2011; Schwenger 2019.
Individual

:GraphemesPresent

Φ

graphemes present en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemesPresent

The graphs realize graphemes; the minimal-pair test runs. The ordinary case.

Instance of:GraphemeStatus
Individual

:HyphenationSplit

Φ

hyphenation split (myph/graph-level break insertion) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HyphenationSplit

v0.6.14: usually the grapheme string stays whole across the break and the split only cuts the line; where the regime alters the spelling at the break (:breakAlteration: German Zuk-ker before 1996, Hungarian hosz-szú, Dutch be-invloeden), the split maps the altered myphs to the unaltered graphemes.

Individual

:ImplicitPremodern

Φ

implicit / premodern en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ImplicitPremodern

Uncodified but conventional: silently agreed spellings of a literate community (Mihm's premodern orthographies), reconstructable, not written down.

Individual

:InitialBlock

Φ

initial block (opens a paragraph that continues) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InitialBlock

Instance of:BlockRole
Individual

:Kerning

Φ

kerning (glyph↔glyph) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Kerning

Individual

:KeyboardApplication

Φ

keyboard layout en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KeyboardApplication

The unit inventory a keyboard layout treats as keys.

Individual

:KeyboardMapped

Φ

keyboard-mapped en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KeyboardMapped

Assigned to the same physical key by two keyboard layouts, though visually unrelated (see :viaKeyboardLayout).

Individual

:LabelShownAsText

Φ

label shown as text en · étiquette affichée en clair fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LabelShownAsText

The element's markup name, or the code's operator, is displayed as text (<footnote>, \footnote{...}, moveto): a feature of the code grammar.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:Lang_Arabic

Φ

Arabic en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Arabic

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_English

Φ

English en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_English

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_French

Φ

French en · français fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_French

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_German

Φ

German en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_German

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Greek

Φ

Greek en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Greek

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Hebrew

Φ

Hebrew en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Hebrew

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Japanese

Φ

Japanese en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Japanese

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Mandarin

Φ

Mandarin Chinese en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Mandarin

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_MonotonicGreek

Φ

monotonic Greek en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_MonotonicGreek

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Persian

Φ

Persian en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Persian

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_PolytonicGreek

Φ

polytonic Greek en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_PolytonicGreek

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Russian

Φ

Russian en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Russian

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Serbian

Φ

Serbian en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Serbian

Instance of:Language
Individual

:Lang_Turkish

Φ

Turkish en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Turkish

Instance of:Language
Individual

:LigatureDecomposition

Φ

ligature decomposition (one glyph↔several characters) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LigatureDecomposition

Individual

:Materialization

Φ

materialization (myph → graph: printing or display) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Materialization

Resident: the mark was produced from the myph by a printer or a screen. Never scoped to an interpretive act, never weighted. Replaces the v0.4 type :Perception, which wrongly presented the link from the observable corner into the computer as perception (v0.5.5).

Individual

:MedialBlock

Φ

medial block (neither opens nor closes its paragraph, e.g. a full page inside one) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MedialBlock

Instance of:BlockRole
Individual

:MonospaceGrid

Φ

monospaced grid en · grille à chasse fixe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MonospaceGrid

One character per cell of a fixed-width grid: the characters of the file, not the glyphs of a book.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:NaturallyDeveloped

Φ

naturally developed en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NaturallyDeveloped

Codified from conventionalised prior usage (English, German).

Individual

:NoObfuscation

Φ

no obfuscation (default) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NoObfuscation

The default, unmarked state: the text is complete and directly legible; no concealment applied.

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Individual

:NonScriptural

Φ

non-scriptural (no writing) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NonScriptural

The book bears no writing at all — not even writing-LIKE marks — only images. The minimal-pair test does not arise: there is nothing script-shaped to test. This is distinct from :GraphemesAbsent (asemic), where marks RESEMBLE writing but carry no meaning. The wordless picture book, e.g. David Wiesner's Flotsam, is the exemplar: pictures narrate, but no graph layer, graphemic or asemic, is present.

Instance of:GraphemeStatus
SourcesWiesner, Flotsam (2006), and the wordless-picture-book tradition; Haralambous 2024, ch. 3 (the graph as the etic unit that a picture is not).
Individual

:NondeterministicObfuscation

Φ

nondeterministic (algorithmic) obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NondeterministicObfuscation

The algorithm admits MORE THAN ONE possible recovery (Foer's negative-kerning superposition; a crossword-like typographic fill).

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Sourceshara.tex §Nondeterministic (Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close).
Individual

:Pedagogy

Φ

pedagogy (taught alphabet) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pedagogy

The alphabet as taught and named for spelling instruction (the abecedario's che/elle; the Arabic alphabet's lam-alif). Often :groundedIn the :BasicShape / ligature.

Individual

:Pictographic

Φ

pictographic (non-linguistic) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pictographic

The units carry meaning (so not asemic) and are sequenced (so support narrative) but are not graphemes: a pictorial sign system without first/second articulation. Xu Bing's Book from the Ground (emoji + punctuation) is the exemplar.

Instance of:GraphemeStatus
SourcesHaralambous 2024, §3.2.2; Cohn, Engelen & Schilperoord 2019 (grammar of emoji).
Individual

:Realization

Φ

realization (observable unit(s) ↔ linguistic unit(s), level by level) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Realization

Interpretive, scoped to an act, possibly weighted. Reading happens at many levels, and each level has its pair: graph → grapheme; visual word → morpheme(s) or word form; visual text block → paragraph (with a :blockRole); visual division or chapter head → division; sounding prosodic phrase → sentence; sounding text block → paragraph. Since v0.5.14 also the recognition of peritext: visual text block → peritext element (a note, a running head, a folio), division header, or reference; visual word → reference ('p. 42'). A :Location is never a target. :RealizationLevelShape admits only these pairs. Generalized from graph↔grapheme in v0.5.9.

Individual

:RecoverableObfuscation

Φ

recoverable obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecoverableObfuscation

Concealment the reader can undo, more or less easily, or that is only hinted at (grouping node).

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Individual

:Rendering

Φ

rendering (glyph↔character) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Rendering

Individual

:Script_Arab

Φ

Arab — Arabic en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Arab

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Brai

Φ

Brai — Braille en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Brai

v0.6.11: a tactile script of 64 six-dot cells (U+2800 to U+283F; eight-dot cells to U+28FF), shared by the braille writing systems of many languages. Unicode braille patterns encode CELLS (shapes), not graphemes: in a PEF file they belong to C_form.

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Cyrl

Φ

Cyrl — Cyrillic en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Cyrl

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Grek

Φ

Grek — Greek en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Grek

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Hani

Φ

Hani — Han en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hani

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Hebr

Φ

Hebr — Hebrew en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hebr

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Hira

Φ

Hira — Hiragana en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hira

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Kana

Φ

Kana — Katakana en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Kana

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:Script_Latn

Φ

Latn — Latin en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Latn

Instance of:UnicodeScript
Individual

:SoftWrapped

Φ

soft-wrapped en · retour à la ligne automatique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoftWrapped

Long lines are broken for display, often with a continuation sign: computed lines return inside the editor, the gradient of fixed form in miniature.

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:SpellingAlphabet

Φ

spelling alphabet en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpellingAlphabet

The named units used to spell aloud (radio alphabets, letter-naming).

Individual

:SymbolicObfuscation

Φ

symbolic obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SymbolicObfuscation

Concealment only hinted at, so the information is directly accessible to the reader (though perhaps not to characters in the text).

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Sourceshara.tex §Symbolic Obfuscation (the Iranian example).
Individual

:SyntaxColoured

Φ

syntax-coloured en · coloration syntaxique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SyntaxColoured

Tokens coloured by lexical category: the displayed output of a machine recognition (:SyntaxHighlighting).

Instance of:VisualFeature
Individual

:TranscriptionMapped

Φ

transcription-mapped en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TranscriptionMapped

Corresponded by a transcription/transliteration scheme though visually unrelated: English <w> and Greek <ω> in a TeX Greek transliteration (see :viaScheme).

Individual

:UnrecoverableObfuscation

Φ

unrecoverable obfuscation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnrecoverableObfuscation

Information hidden from the reader and not recoverable from the text — overprinted to grey/black, erased, or lost past the page boundary.

Instance of:ObfuscationType
Sourceshara.tex §Unrecoverable Obfuscation (Foer's darkening pages; Ollier's white voids).
Individual

:Unstandardised

Φ

unstandardised en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Unstandardised

No orthography; ontologically primary (a young or unregulated system).

Individual

:VisuallyClose

Φ

visually close en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisuallyClose

The graphemes' basic shapes are :visuallyCloseTo each other but not identical: German <ß> and Greek <β>.

Individual

:VisuallyDistinct

Φ

visually distinct en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisuallyDistinct

The graphemes' basic shapes are neither shared nor close: English <w> and Greek <π>. The default, unmarked case; asserted mainly to record that a conventionally mapped pair is visually unrelated.

Individual

:VisuallyEquivalent

Φ

visually equivalent (homoglyph) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisuallyEquivalent

The two graphemes share a basic shape (:hasBasicShape the same :BasicShape): <o> of the French, Greek and Russian writing systems, whose graphs belong to the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts; French <i> and Turkish <ı>, both realized by the dotless-i basic shape. A summary of the Rezec level — visual equivalence is properly a fact about shared basic shapes.

Individual

:WS_Arabic

Φ

writing system of the Arabic language en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Arabic

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_English

Φ

English writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_English

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_EnglishBraille

Φ

Unified English Braille en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_EnglishBraille

v0.6.11: a writing system of English in its own right (Spitzmüller 2025: 'there is no unified braille writing system', only braille writing systems such as UEB and German Braille), based on print English but not subordinate to it. In contracted mode ⠯ is a grapheme of UEB standing for the word form 'and': a logogram.

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_EnglishPitman

Φ

Pitman shorthand (English) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_EnglishPitman

v0.6.11: largely phonographic (it writes sounds and ignores English spelling), hence a writing system of English distinct from print English; no Unicode script, so no :usesScript.

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_French

Φ

French writing system en · système d'écriture du français fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_French

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_German

Φ

German writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_German

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Hebrew

Φ

writing system of the Hebrew language en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Hebrew

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Japanese

Φ

Japanese writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Japanese

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Mandarin

Φ

Mandarin Chinese writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Mandarin

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_MonotonicGreek

Φ

monotonic Greek writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_MonotonicGreek

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Persian

Φ

Persian writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Persian

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_PolytonicGreek

Φ

polytonic Greek writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_PolytonicGreek

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Russian

Φ

Russian writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Russian

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Serbian

Φ

Serbian writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Serbian

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WS_Turkish

Φ

Turkish writing system en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Turkish

Instance of:WritingSystem
Individual

:WholeParagraphBlock

Φ

whole-paragraph block en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WholeParagraphBlock

Instance of:BlockRole
Class

:AccordionBook

Carriers

accordion / concertina book en · livre accordéon (leporello) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AccordionBook

A continuous strip folded back and forth in even panels, optionally cased; derived from the scroll (8th-c. China, sutra folding) and intermediate between scroll and codex — supports both continuous unfolding and page-wise opening, and admits reader refolding.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1 and 3, and Glossary.
Class

:Affordance

Carriers

affordance en · affordance fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Affordance

A possibility for use presented by the physical form of a carrier — what the form invites the reader's body to do with it.

Range of:affords
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (explicit definition) and passim; ultimately Gibson 1979.
Class

:AudioCarrier

Carriers

audio carrier en · support sonore fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AudioCarrier

A physical carrier whose inscription is recorded sound rather than visible signs; the material host of the sounding book. Its legibility is apparatus-conditional by design (:ApparatusMediatedPlayback).

Second carrier (after :Khipu) whose inscription bears no graphemes; the first whose legibility is machine-mediated by design.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 1–2; LIBRORUM.xlsx (sounding facet).
Class

:BackFlap

Carriers

back flap en · rabat arrière fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BackFlap

Class

:BackPanel

Carriers

back cover / back panel en · quatrième de couverture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BackPanel

Class

:BambooSlip

Carriers

bamboo slip en · latte de bambou fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BambooSlip

Narrow strip split from a bamboo stalk, cured, polished on the 'yellow side', and bound with cords into jiance.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Liu Guozhong 2016.
Class

:BasicShapeAdmission

Carriers

basic-shape admission en · admission d'une forme de base fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BasicShapeAdmission

The fact that a writing system admits a basic shape for one of its graphemes, over a period and possibly under a condition: the unit of the graphetic solution space of a grapheme, as the spelling is the unit of Neef's graphematic solution space of a word. The writing system is the grapheme's (:inWritingSystem). The Serbian basic shapes of <б>, <г>, <д>, <п>, <т> are admitted by the Serbian writing system and not by the Russian one; |κ| and |ϰ| are both admitted for Greek <κ>; |ſ| was admitted for English <s> in non-final position until about 1800.

Reified so that an admission can carry its period, its condition and its source (prov:wasAttributedTo: a grammar, a type history, a corpus; prov:wasGeneratedBy a :Decree in the rare cases where a basic shape is decreed, as by the German Normalschrifterlass of 1941). Usage, not decree, is the normal source: this is a descriptive norm, beside the prescriptive :Orthography.

Sub-class ofprov:Entity
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); Rezec 2009; Neef 2015 (solution space).
Class

:BindingMethod

Carriers

binding method en · méthode de reliure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BindingMethod

A technique for holding a book block together and (optionally) attaching it to covers; a property of the physical book, not of the text.

Class

:BookBlock

Carriers

book block en · corps d'ouvrage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BookBlock

The collated, stacked body of a codex's quires, prior to and independent of its covers.

Sub-class of:hasMember min 1 :Quire
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 ('The Body of the Book') and Glossary.
Class

:ButterflyBinding

Carriers

butterfly binding en · reliure papillon fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ButterflyBinding

Glued Chinese binding (9th–13th c.): sheets printed with two facing pages folded inward and pasted at the crease, so each printed spread opens between blank versos — a side effect of one-sided xylography.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Burkus-Chasson 2005.
Class

:CarriedForm

Carriers

carried form en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CarriedForm

A visible form carried by the support: text, content figure, or decorative figure, rendered in a distinctive color against the base color.

Range of:carries
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>.
Class

:CarriedText

Carriers

text en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CarriedText

Sub-class of:CarriedForm
Class

:CaseBinding

Carriers

case binding en · reliure cartonnée (emboîtage) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseBinding

The sewn book block glued into a separately manufactured cover of wrapped boards; the standard hardback, mechanized in the 19th c.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:CassetteTape

Carriers

cassette tape en · cassette audio fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CassetteTape

Sub-class of:AudioCarrier
SourcesRubery 2016, ch. 8 (Books on Tape).
Class

:Clay

Carriers

clay en · argile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Clay

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> ('clay-tablet' as support); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:ClayTablet

Carriers

clay tablet en · tablette d'argile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ClayTablet

A palm-sized clay slab, slightly convex from the forming hand, impressed while damp with a wedge-shaped reed stylus (cuneiform); dominant Mesopotamian form from c. 2800 BCE.

Sub-class of:Tablet; fabio:isStoredOn some :Clay
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Schmandt-Besserat & Erard 2008.
Class

:CodexBook

Carriers

codex en · codex fr · Kodex de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodexBook

A book of stacked leaves gathered in quires (or as single sheets) bound along one edge, typically in covers; emerged c. 150 CE from Roman parchment notebooks and wax-tablet polyptychs.

All pagination/parity/opening axioms are axioms of THIS class (conventions facet), not of :PhysicalBook.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Roberts & Skeat 1983.
Class

:CompactDisc

Carriers

compact disc en · disque compact fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompactDisc

Sub-class of:AudioCarrier
SourcesRubery 2016, ch. 9.
Class

:ContentFigure

Carriers

content figure en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContentFigure

Sub-class of:CarriedForm
Class

:Cord

Carriers

cord en · cordelette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Cord

Spun and plied fiber string; the support of khipu, whose knots, colors, and ply directions are the signs.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Urton 2003.
Class

:CordiformBook

Carriers

cordiform (heart-shaped) book en · livre cordiforme fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CordiformBook

A codex cut so its symmetrical opening forms a heart (14th–15th c.); the shape of the opening itself signifies devotion — an early material-semiotic instance.

Sub-class of:CodexBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; Jager 2000.
Class

:DecorativeFigure

Carriers

decorative figure en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DecorativeFigure

Sub-class of:CarriedForm
Class

:Display

Carriers

display en · écran fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Display

An electronic output device (LCD, E Ink, etc.) on which a digital-form book is rendered; E Ink reconfigures black-and-white microparticles by electric charge to simulate paper.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4.
Class

:DosADosBook

Carriers

dos-à-dos book en · livre dos-à-dos fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DosADosBook

Two codices joined back to back at a shared board, each opening in the opposite direction.

Sub-class of:CodexBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:Endsheet

Carriers

endsheet / endpaper en · page de garde fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Endsheet

A folio adhered to the cover board (pastedown) and to the joint of the first/last page (flyleaf); often decorative; its hinge tension pulls the book invitingly open. Favorite site of the bookplate.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.72; Genette 1997, p. 32 (pages de garde, blank).
Class

:FoldOutLeaf

Carriers

fold-out en · dépliant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FoldOutLeaf

A leaf larger than the book's page, folded to the format and bound or tipped in with the others; it carries what cannot be kept whole on one page or one opening (a map, a large illustration or table, a genealogy): the leaf is enlarged so that the figure need not be broken (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).

Sub-class of:PhysicalLeaf
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
Class

:FoldingFormat

Carriers

folding format en · format de pliage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FoldingFormat

A scheme for folding one sheet into a gathering, named for the leaves it yields; determines leaf/page counts and, given sheet size, the book's dimensions. For Genette (p. 17) the format is the publisher's first peritextual message (the in-folio of the humanities vs. the pocket duodecimo).

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1, fig. 3, and Glossary; Genette 1997, p. 17.
Class

:ForeEdge

Carriers

fore-edge en · gouttière fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ForeEdge

The edge opposite the spine; before spine-out shelving it faced outward and carried identifying decoration or paintings.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:FrontFlap

Carriers

front flap en · rabat avant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FrontFlap

Class

:FrontPanel

Carriers

front cover / front panel en · première de couverture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FrontPanel

Class

:GirdleBook

Carriers

girdle book en · livre de ceinture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GirdleBook

A codex whose oversized soft cover loops under a belt for reading on the move; medieval pilgrims' form.

Sub-class of:CodexBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:Gutter

Carriers

gutter en · petit fond fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Gutter

The interior seam of an opening where verso and recto meet at the binding; a boundary that design can respect or deliberately traverse.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Mallarmé's Un coup de Dés read across the seam).
Class

:Harlequinade

Carriers

harlequinade (flap book) en · arlequinade (livre à rabats) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Harlequinade

A book with hinged flaps whose lifting transforms image and narrative; mass-marketed to children from c. 1765 — an early reader-recombinant form.

Sub-class of:CodexBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 and Glossary.
Class

:Headband

Carriers

headband en · tranchefile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Headband

Threads sewn (today mostly glued) at head and foot of the spine, originally reinforcing the block, now chiefly decorative.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:Jiance

Carriers

jiance (bamboo-strip scroll) en · jiance fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Jiance

A Chinese scroll of bamboo slips bound side-by-side with cords, each slip carrying a single top-to-bottom character column; rollable like a mat.

Grapholinguistic bridge: slip narrowness fixed the top-to-bottom, right-to-left orientation of Chinese writing and shaped vertically compressed characters — substrate constraining grapheme design (see linguistic facet, :WritingDirection).

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Liu Guozhong 2016; Tsien 2004.
Class

:Khipu

Carriers

khipu / quipu en · quipu fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Khipu

An Andean recording device: a primary cord with pendant strings whose knot types, positions, colors, and ply directions encode decimal-hierarchical quantities and possibly narrative; maintained by khipukamayuq.

Grapheme-status UNDETERMINED, not absent (:GraphemeStatusUndetermined). The dominant reading is decimal-numerical, but colonial sources describe narrative khipu, and Hyland (2017) and Urton argue for glottographic (language-encoding) construction. Whether khipu bear graphemes is therefore an OPEN empirical question pending decipherment: the minimal-pair test is in principle applicable (meaning may be present) but not yet runnable. The model neither asserts nor denies graphemes here. Any linguistic-facet axiom requiring graphematic inscription for bookhood must not exclude khipu on the assumption that it has none.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Urton 2003; Hyland 2017 (Collata khipu, phonetic reading).
Class

:MaterialSupport

Carriers

material support en · support matériel fr · materieller Träger de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MaterialSupport

A substance or device on/in which the signs of a book are materially borne.

Domain of:hasBaseColor
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:ObservableState

Carriers

observable state en · état observable fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ObservableState

A time-bound state of a carrier as it reaches a reader's senses: an opening of a codex under a given light, the pixels of a screen, the sound of a record being played. Generalizes HCIO's user observable state, which is restricted to the states of computer systems.

v0.6.6 (after Haralambous): introduced so that the state of a physical book being read is not forced under a computing state. hcio:User_Observable_State ⊑ :ObservableState; :PixelBook alone stays under the HCIO class. HCIO IRIs to verify against HCIO.owl (the monograph writes hcio:UserObservableState).

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.6); HCIO (Costa et al. 2022).
Class

:Opening

Carriers

opening en · double page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Opening

The two-page spread visible when a codex lies open: exactly one verso (left) facing exactly one recto (right); a first-class layout unit, since the codex offers a fundamentally comparative visual space (Kirschenbaum) composed across.

For :UnboundBook the space between facing stacks is only ambiguously an opening (Borsuk ch. 3): asserted for bound codices and accordions, not entailed for unbound books.

Sub-class of:openingVerso exactly 1 :VersoPage; :openingRecto exactly 1 :RectoPage
Range of:spansGutter
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 3 and Glossary; Kirschenbaum 2008.
Class

:PageNumberEntry

Carriers

page-number entry en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PageNumberEntry

The assignment of one number, in one :PageNumbering, to one page. A page may have several entries (a facsimile carrying original and reprint numbers) or none (an unnumbered blank between sections).

Class

:PageNumbering

Carriers

page-numbering system en · système de pagination fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PageNumbering

A named sequence of page numbers within a work or edition: roman front-matter numbering, arabic body numbering, a Greek-numbered index, or the original numbering preserved in a facsimile. Page numbers compare and increment only within one :PageNumbering.

Domain of:hasStyle
Range of:inNumbering
Sourceslibrorum.nw; the G21C proceedings (Greek-numbered index); CMOS 17, §1.6.
Class

:PalmLeaf

Carriers

palm leaf en · feuille de palmier fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PalmLeaf

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (pothī).
Class

:Paper

Carriers

paper en · papier fr · Papier de · χαρτί el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Paper

A writing support of matted, interlocking plant (or rag) fibers lifted from a water slurry on a screen; attributed to Cai Lun (105 CE).

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
Equivalent tofabio:Paper
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 18; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:PaperBook

Carriers

paper book en · livre papier fr · Buch aus Papier de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperBook

SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 17 (INTERSECTION fabio:Item ⊓ ≥1 fabio:isStoredOn.fabio:Paper).
Class

:PaperColor

Carriers

paper color en · couleur de papier fr · Papierfarbe de · χρῶμα χαρτιοῦ el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperColor

Class

:PaperType

Carriers

paper type en · type de papier fr · Papiertyp de · τύπος χαρτιοῦ el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperType

Class

:Papyrus

Carriers

papyrus en · papyrus fr · πάπυρος el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Papyrus

Writing support of two perpendicular layers of cyperus papyrus pith strips beaten until fused; its two-layer structure creates the grain that dictates rolling direction.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:Parchment

Carriers

parchment en · parchemin fr · Pergament de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Parchment

Writing support of limed, stretched, and dried animal hide; name from Pergamon, a production center of the 4th c. BCE.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
Sub-classes:Vellum
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:PerfectBinding

Carriers

perfect binding en · dos carré collé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PerfectBinding

Glue-only binding of a trimmed page stack into a flexible cover; the standard paperback.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2 and Glossary.
Class

:Phone

Carriers

phone en · phone fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Phone

A sound segment of the sounding book individuated as a unit of speech in an interpretive act: the sound counterpart of :Graph, realizing a phoneme (:Realization) as a graph realizes a grapheme, and the materialization of a speech segment of the audio file.

Class

:PhysicalBook

Carriers

physical book en · livre physique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalBook

A portable material artifact bearing arrangements of signs for storage, retrieval, and dissemination; ranges over the whole historical family of forms, of which the codex is only one.

OWL 2 punning: carrier-form classes below are also used as individuals in :affords and :remediates assertions.

Sub-class offabio:Item
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 1; Kilgour 1998 (book as portable storehouse of arranged signs); Vogler 2000 (portability as criterial).
Class

:PhysicalBookBody

Carriers

physical book body en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalBookBody

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>.
Class

:PhysicalCover

Carriers

cover en · couverture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalCover

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; CMOS 17, §§1.69–1.74 (clothbound hardcover vs paperback cover).
Class

:PhysicalDustJacket

Carriers

dust jacket en · jaquette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalDustJacket

Sourceslibrorum.nw; Genette 1997, p. 27; CMOS 17, §1.71.
Class

:PhysicalLeaf

Carriers

leaf en · feuillet fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalLeaf

One of the smaller sheets produced by folding (and ultimately slitting) a sheet; a leaf has exactly two sides, its recto and its verso.

Sub-class of:hasRectoPage exactly 1 :PhysicalPage; :hasVersoPage exactly 1 :PhysicalPage
Range of:conjugateOf
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-leaf); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5.
Class

:PhysicalPage

Carriers

page en · page fr · Seite de

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalPage

One side of a leaf; the unit of layout and pagination. From Latin pagina, the scroll column that established the page's 'cognitive architecture' (Mak) long before trimmed sheets.

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-page); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1; Mak 2011.
Class

:PhysicalSheet

Carriers

sheet en · feuille (de fabrication) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalSheet

A single piece of substrate as manufactured, before folding; the unit the press prints and the folder folds.

Domain of:printedFrom
Range of:foldedFrom
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-sheet); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1, fig. 3.
Class

:PlateLeaf

Carriers

plate en · planche hors-texte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlateLeaf

A leaf printed apart from the text, often by another process and on another paper (an intaglio engraving, a lithograph, a halftone on coated paper), and bound or tipped in, singly or as a section of plates; outside the pagination or numbered in a sequence of its own. It exists because an image could not, or could not well, be printed with the type: intaglio needs a rolling press, fine halftones a coated paper (v0.6.8).

Sub-class of:PhysicalLeaf
SourcesGaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford 1972 (intaglio plates printed apart); editorial (v0.6.8).
Class

:Polyptych

Carriers

polyptych en · polyptyque fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Polyptych

Two or more tablets threaded together along one edge; the Roman name for such a hinged gathering, codex, is the etymological source of the codex book.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook; :hasMember min 2 :Tablet
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Roberts & Skeat 1983.
Class

:Pothi

Carriers

pothī (palm-leaf manuscript) en · pothī fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pothi

Oblong polished palm-leaf strips stacked between boards and held by cords through drilled holes; opens like a venetian blind.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Agrawal 1982.
Class

:PrintedCodex

Carriers

printed codex en · codex imprimé fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrintedCodex

A codex produced by printing (xylographic, letterpress, offset, digital print); pagination fixed at manufacture.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2.
Class

:Quaternion

Carriers

quaternion en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Quaternion

A quire of four nested folios (eight leaves, sixteen pages), the standard medieval parchment gathering and etymological source of 'quire'; assembled hair side facing hair side, flesh facing flesh.

Sub-class of:Quire; :hasMember exactly 8 :PhysicalLeaf
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Avrin 1991.
Class

:Quire

Carriers

quire / gathering / signature en · cahier fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Quire

A gathering of nested folded leaves sewn or bound as a unit; the modular building block of the codex book block, allowing parallel work by several scribes or presses.

Sub-class of:hasMember min 1 :PhysicalLeaf
Sub-classes:Quaternion
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:RectoPage

Carriers

recto en · recto (belle page) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RectoPage

The front side of a leaf. Which hand it falls on is binding-relative: the right-hand page in left-bound books (Western; Mongolian vertical), the left-hand page in right-bound books (Semitic scripts; Japanese and Chinese vertical). Conventionally odd-numbered in Western per-page numbering — a numbering convention, not a property of the side. From Roman recto, the ruled interior of the papyrus scroll, the 'right place to write'.

Sub-class of:PhysicalPage
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5 ('rectos are odd-numbered').
Class

:Ribbon

Carriers

ribbon bookmark en · signet fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Ribbon

A ribbon bound in at the head for place-keeping.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 30 (signet); Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:SaddleStitch

Carriers

saddle stitch en · piqûre à cheval fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SaddleStitch

Sewing or stapling through the fold of a single gathering; the binding of the earliest parchment notebooks and of the chapbook.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:Screen

Carriers

screen en · écran fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Screen

Domain of:presents
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 36.
Class

:Scroll

Carriers

scroll (volumen) en · rouleau fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Scroll

A rolled length of flexible support inscribed in successive columns and read by progressive unrolling; Latin volumen, source of 'volume'.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
Sub-classes:Jiance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:Silk

Carriers

silk en · soie fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Silk

Luxury Chinese writing support, 3rd–5th c. CE especially.

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Tsien 2004.
Class

:SpinePanel

Carriers

spine en · dos fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpinePanel

The bound back of the codex, standing outward on the shelf since the mid-16th c., hence carrying author, title, edition, publisher (CMOS 1.69–70); Genette p. 26.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; Genette 1997, p. 26; CMOS 17, §§1.69–70.
Class

:StabBinding

Carriers

stab binding en · reliure japonaise fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/StabBinding

East Asian sewn binding: one thread through holes stabbed near the spine edge, forming a decorative pattern; repairable without page damage.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:SupportedBinding

Carriers

supported binding en · reliure sur nerfs fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SupportedBinding

Each quire sewn onto cords or thongs running across the spine and laced into the covers (7th c. onward); required by heavy codices, still standard in fine binding.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (Book of Kells).
Class

:Tablet

Carriers

tablet en · tablette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Tablet

A rigid, hand-scaled slab bearing inscription, readable on one or both faces and stable on a flat surface.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Class

:TactileBook

Carriers

tactile book en · livre tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileBook

The book as it reaches a reader's touch: an embossed braille volume under the fingers, or the cells raised on a refreshable braille display. Read sequentially, cell by cell, without the glance of the visual book.

SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
Class

:TactileGraph

Carriers

tactile graph en · graphe tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileGraph

A braille cell as felt: the tactile subclass of :Graph. It realizes a grapheme of a braille writing system, which in contracted mode may be a logogram standing for a whole word form (UEB ⠯ 'and').

Class

:TactileLine

Carriers

tactile line en · ligne tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileLine

Class

:TactilePage

Carriers

tactile page en · page tactile fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactilePage

Class

:TalkingBookRecord

Carriers

talking-book record en · disque du livre parlant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TalkingBookRecord

The 12-inch vinylite disc engineered by the American Foundation for the Blind (1932): 150 grooves/inch at 33⅓ rpm — a long-playing record fourteen years before the commercial LP; c. 15 minutes per side (War and Peace ran to 118 records).

Sub-class of:AudioCarrier
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65–66.
Class

:TunnelBook

Carriers

tunnel book / peep-show en · livre-tunnel fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TunnelBook

Superimposed cut-out planes joined by lateral accordions, viewed through a cover aperture for an illusion of depth; from Alberti's perspective boxes.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 and Glossary; Hyde 2015.
Class

:UnboundBook

Carriers

unbound / boxed book en · livre en feuilles (sous coffret) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnboundBook

Loose leaves or cards in an enclosure (box, portfolio, slipcase); the enclosure supplies the volume-like exterior, interior order left to the reader.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
Individuals:CompositionNo1
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Saporta; Johnson; Schneeman; Blake's leaves as sold).
Class

:Vellum

Carriers

vellum en · vélin fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Vellum

Highest-quality parchment, typically of calfskin.

Sub-class of:Parchment
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Glossary, s.v. 'Vellum'.
Class

:VersoPage

Carriers

verso en · verso fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VersoPage

The back side of a leaf. Binding-relative hand: the left-hand page in left-bound books (Western; Mongolian vertical), the right-hand page in right-bound books (Semitic scripts; Japanese and Chinese vertical). Conventionally even-numbered in Western per-page numbering. From verso folium, the 'turned leaf' of the scroll's back.

Sub-class of:PhysicalPage
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5 ('versos are even-numbered').
Class

:Wax

Carriers

wax en · cire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Wax

Sub-class of:MaterialSupport
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (pugillares).
Class

:WaxTablet

Carriers

wax tablet (pugillares) en · tablette de cire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WaxTablet

A wooden board with recessed wax writing surface, inscribed with a pointed stylus and erased with its flat end; pugillares from pugnus, 'fist' — a one-hand-held surface, like the modern e-reader.

Sub-class of:Tablet
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
Class

:WrappedBackBinding

Carriers

wrapped back binding en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WrappedBackBinding

Chinese binding (13th–17th c.): sheets folded outward, pegged, spine-glued, wrapped in a stout paper cover; the first perfect (glue-based) binding.

Sub-class of:BindingMethod
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Object property

:admitsShape

Carriers

admits shape en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admitsShape

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:admittedFor

Carriers

admitted for en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedFor

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:affords

Carriers

affords en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/affords

Relates a carrier form (punned individual) or an individual book to a use pattern its structure enables.

Object property

:carries

Carriers

carries en · porte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/carries

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-book ***carries forms).
Object property

:conjugateOf

Carriers

conjugate of en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/conjugateOf

Relates two leaves still physically attached because they derive from the same folded sheet; conjugacy ends when the fold is slit.

Characteristicssymmetric, irreflexive
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Object property

:foldedFrom

Carriers

folded from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/foldedFrom

Object property

:hasBaseColor

Carriers

has base color en · a la couleur de base fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBaseColor

The ground color of the support, against which forms are carried in a distinctive color; base and distinctive colors are disjoint in function.

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (support ***has base-color; DISJOINT(base-color, distinctive-color)).
Object property

:hasBinding

Carriers

has binding en · a pour reliure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBinding

Object property

:hasFoldingFormat

Carriers

has folding format en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasFoldingFormat

Object property

:hasMember

Carriers

has member en · a pour membre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMember

Relates a composite carrier (polyptych, quire, book block, boxed book) to a discrete physical component it gathers.

skos:closeMatch to co:element of the Collections Ontology (Ciccarese & Peroni 2014, Semantic Web 5(6):515–529; http://purl.org/co/) — the OWL 2 DL-clean membership property SPAR recommends for use alongside FaBiO, which this ontology already imports. Close, not exact: co:element is membership in a set / bag / list, whereas :hasMember additionally implies discrete PHYSICAL componency (a quire's leaves, a polyptych's panels). For the strictly mereological (part-of-a-whole) reading, dcterms:hasPart is the alternative match.

Close matchco:element
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1 and 3; Ciccarese & Peroni 2014 (Collections Ontology).
Object property

:hasNextPage

Carriers

has next page en · a pour page suivante fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNextPage

Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-page has-next physical-page).
Object property

:hasNumberEntry

Carriers

has number entry en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNumberEntry

NOT functional and NOT required: zero, one, or several entries per page.

Object property

:hasPaperColor

Carriers

has paper color en · a la couleur de papier fr · hat die Papierfarbe de · ἔχει τὸ χρῶμα χαρτιοῦ el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperColor

Domain:Paper
Object property

:hasPaperType

Carriers

has type en · est de type fr · ist vom Typ de · εἶναι τύπου el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperType

Domain:Paper
Object property

:hasPreviousPage

Carriers

has previous page en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPreviousPage

Inverse of:hasNextPage
Object property

:hasRectoPage

Carriers

has recto en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasRectoPage

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasThickness

Carriers

has thickness en · a comme épaisseur fr · hat die Dicke de · ἔχει πᾶχος el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasThickness

Object property

:hasTransparency

Carriers

has transparency value en · a la valeur de transparence fr · hat den Durchsichtigkeitswert de · ἔχει διαφάνεια el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTransparency

Object property

:hasVersoPage

Carriers

has verso en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasVersoPage

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:inNumbering

Carriers

in numbering en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inNumbering

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:openingRecto

Carriers

opening recto (right) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/openingRecto

Domain:Opening
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:openingVerso

Carriers

opening verso (left) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/openingVerso

Domain:Opening
Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:presents

Carriers

presents en · présente fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/presents

Relates a carrier to an observable state it presents: a screen presents a pixel book; a physical book presents a view of itself (an opening, a stretch of a roll) -- and a region of a scroll presents a visual page (Mak's pagina). The carrier is a lasting object, the state time-bound; one carrier presents many states.

Domain widened from :Screen to physical books in v0.5.5, and to audio carriers (which present sounding books) in v0.5.8, so that paper, parchment and papyrus books reach the observable corner the same way screens do.

Sub-propertieshcio:presents
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 37; editorial (v0.5.5).
Object property

:spansGutter

Carriers

spans gutter en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/spansGutter

Relates a layout or textual element to an opening across whose gutter it is deliberately composed; hook for the material-semiotic reading — the crossing itself signifies.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Mallarmé; Snow, Cover to Cover); McGann 1991.
Data property

:admissionCondition

Carriers

admission condition en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admissionCondition

A condition on the admission, stated in words ('non-final position', 'italic only', 'in display type').

Data property

:admittedFrom

Carriers

admitted from en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedFrom

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:admittedUntil

Carriers

admitted until en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedUntil

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasPageNumber

Carriers

has page number en · a pour numéro de page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPageNumber

Shorthand for the value of the page's PRIMARY :PageNumberEntry. No longer functional: a page may bear zero (an unnumbered blank between sections, as in a Budé facing-page edition), one (the ordinary case), or several page numbers (a facsimile preserving original and reprint numberings). The 99.999% norm is recovered as :SinglePageNumberShape, a reportable convention, not an axiom. CMOS 17, §1.6: all pages counted whether or not the number is printed (blind folio); visibility is :hasVisibleFolio.

Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; CMOS 17, §1.6.
Data property

:hasPaperColorName

Carriers

has name en · a le nom fr · hat den Namen de · ἔχει τὸ ὄνομα χρώματος el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperColorName

Data property

:hasPaperColorRGBValue

Carriers

has RGB value en · a la valeur RVB fr · hat den RGB-Wert de · ἔχει τὴν τιμὴ RGB χρώματος el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperColorRGBValue

Data property

:hasPaperWeight

Carriers

has weight (grammage) en · a comme grammage fr · hat ein Gewicht von de · εἶναι βάρους el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperWeight

Domain:Paper
Data property

:hasStyle

Carriers

numbering style en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasStyle

The numeral style of a :PageNumbering: 'arabic', 'roman', 'greek', etc. Cross-style comparison is never a violation, since such numbers belong to distinct numberings.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:hasVisibleFolio

Carriers

has visible folio en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasVisibleFolio

Whether the page number appears on the page (false = blind folio).

SourcesCMOS 17, §1.6.
Data property

:leavesPerSheet

Carriers

leaves per sheet en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/leavesPerSheet

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:numberValue

Carriers

number value en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/numberValue

The integer value of the entry within its numbering (roman/greek numerals reduced to their integer value; the STYLE is on the :PageNumbering).

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:pagesPerSheet

Carriers

pages per sheet en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pagesPerSheet

Characteristicsfunctional
Individual

:Amendability

Carriers

amendability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Amendability

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2 (wax erasure; papyrus emendation vs. hardened clay; manuscripts outliving Gutenberg partly for this — Chartier).
Individual

:Annotatability

Carriers

annotatability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Annotatability

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 (marginalia and manicules as effects of codex form).
Individual

:ApparatusMediatedPlayback

Carriers

apparatus-mediated playback en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ApparatusMediatedPlayback

The carrier's inscription is legible only through a machine (turntable, player, reader). After the khipu — whose inscription bears no graphemes — the audio carrier is the family's second apparatus-conditional case, and the first so by design.

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65–66 (the 33⅓ vinylite disc as machine-read groove).
Individual

:BiblePaper

Carriers

Bible paper en · papier bible fr · Dünndruckpapier de · χαρτὶ γιὰ βίβλους el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BiblePaper

Very thin, opaque paper; its thinness is what allowed one-volume Bibles and, per Borsuk, the mulberry-thin papers of Chinese printing that forced one-sided xylography.

Instance of:PaperType
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
Individual

:BulkyPaper

Carriers

bulky paper en · papier bouffant fr · Werkdruckpapier de · χαρτὶ βιβλίου el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BulkyPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:DuodecimoFormat

Carriers

duodecimo (12mo) en · in-12 fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DuodecimoFormat

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 17 (in-12 among the classic trade formats).
Individual

:FolioFormat

Carriers

folio en · in-folio fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FolioFormat

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Genette 1997, p. 17.
Individual

:GlossyCoatedPaper

Carriers

glossy coated paper en · papier couché brillant fr · Glanzgestrichenes Papier de · χαρτὶ γυαλιστερὸ μὲ ἐπίστρωση el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GlossyCoatedPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:MatteCoatedPaper

Carriers

matte coated paper en · papier couché mat fr · Mattgestrichenes Papier de · χαρτὶ μὰτ μὲ ἐπίστρωση el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MatteCoatedPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:OctavoFormat

Carriers

octavo en · in-octavo fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OctavoFormat

Three folds, eight leaves, sixteen pages; the most common gathering and, as the Aldine octavo, the format that made the book portable and personal.

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2; Genette 1997, p. 17.
Individual

:OctodecimoFormat

Carriers

octodecimo (18mo) en · in-18 fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OctodecimoFormat

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 17.
Individual

:OffsetPaper

Carriers

offset paper en · papier offset fr · Offsetpapier de · χαρτὶ ὄφφσετ el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OffsetPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:OneHandedUse

Carriers

one-handed use en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OneHandedUse

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4 (pugillares; curled paperback; Kindle Oasis grip).
Individual

:Portability

Carriers

portability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Portability

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 1 (criterial for Kilgour and Vogler).
Individual

:QuartoFormat

Carriers

quarto en · in-quarto fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/QuartoFormat

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Genette 1997, p. 17.
Individual

:RandomAccess

Carriers

random access en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RandomAccess

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4; Stallybrass 2001 (the codex = scrolling PLUS leaping).
Individual

:RecycledPaper

Carriers

recycled paper en · papier recyclé fr · Recyclingpapier de · ἀνακυκλωμένο χαρτί el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecycledPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:Refoldability

Carriers

refoldability en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Refoldability

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 ('The Book as Recombinant Structure').
Individual

:SatinPaper

Carriers

satin paper en · papier satin fr · Satinpapier de · χαρτὶ σατινέ el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SatinPaper

Instance of:PaperType
Individual

:SequentialAccess

Carriers

sequential access en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SequentialAccess

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4; Stallybrass 2001.
Individual

:SextodecimoFormat

Carriers

sextodecimo (16mo) en · in-16 fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SextodecimoFormat

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1, fig. 3; Genette 1997, p. 17.
Individual

:ThirtyTwomoFormat

Carriers

thirty-twomo (32mo) en · in-32 fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ThirtyTwomoFormat

Borsuk (ch. 2): the wallet-like extreme of the Victorian reprint price war — a format choice with direct economic signification. Modern formats are standardized by DIN/ISO (Genette's note '-> DIN, ISO').

Instance of:FoldingFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; librorum.nw (format -> DIN, ISO).
Individual

:TwoSidedInscription

Carriers

two-sided inscription en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TwoSidedInscription

Instance of:Affordance
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 3 (papyrus one-sided; xylographic rubbing forcing the butterfly binding).
Individual

:coverParts

Carriers

cover parts en · parties de la couverture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/coverParts

Ordered parts of cover and dust jacket alike (librorum.nw contains-ordered); the paperback's flaps are the gatefold / French flaps (CMOS 1.70).

Instance ofrdf:Seq
Class

:AcknowledgmentsElement

Conventions

acknowledgements en · remerciements fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AcknowledgmentsElement

Statement of debts and thanks; historically the residue of the patronage dedication, which shrank (Genette: absorbed by the introduction around the end of the nineteenth century) while acknowledgements swelled into inventories of ties and obligations.

Previously named only inside the :FrontPart / :BackPart / :CopyrightPage definitions; distinct from :DedicationElement, with which it shares the sender-addressee machinery.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 8 (H. Smith), pp. 95-108; Genette 1997, pp. 123-124; CMOS 17.
Class

:AppearanceTiming

Conventions

appearance timing en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AppearanceTiming

Genette's temporal question ('when?'): when a paratext element appears relative to the text's publication — not where it sits in the volume (that is :appearsOn, the spatial 'where?'). Applies to any :ParatextElement, not only prefaces. The unmarked case is :OriginalAppearance.

SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 5–6 (the temporal question), pp. 174–175 (preface timing).
Class

:Authenticity

Conventions

authenticity en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Authenticity

Class

:AuthorNameElement

Conventions

name of the author en · nom (ou pseudonyme) de l'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorNameElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 37.
Class

:AuthorPortrait

Conventions

likeness of the author en · portrait de l'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorPortrait

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
Class

:AuthorTitleElement

Conventions

title of the author en · titre de l'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorTitleElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
Class

:Band

Conventions

band en · bande (bandeau) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Band

A removable strip around the lower third of the book carrying the author's name, a literary prize mention (won — or, per Genette's sly footnote, not won), or an authorial/allographic phrase.

SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 27–29.
Class

:BarcodeElement

Conventions

bar code (EAN) en · code-barres fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BarcodeElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (1986; conventionalized 'like a colophon'); CMOS 17, §1.74.
Class

:BiographicalNotice

Conventions

biographical and/or bibliographical notice en · notice biographique et/ou bibliographique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BiographicalNotice

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 25; CMOS 17, §§1.66, 1.73.
Class

:BlankBook

Conventions

blank book en · livre blanc (vierge) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BlankBook

A book manufactured and circulated with no inscribed content; tests whether inscription is necessary for bookhood.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3; Dworkin 2013.
Class

:Blurb

Conventions

blurb / press excerpts en · extraits de presse fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Blurb

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 25; CMOS 17, §1.74 (signed blurb, quotations).
Class

:Bookplate

Conventions

bookplate (ex-libris) en · ex-libris fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bookplate

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 35; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (15th-c. libraries, 17th-c. bibliophiles).
Class

:Catchword

Conventions

catchword en · réclame fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Catchword

A word at the foot of a page (or quire) duplicating the first word of the following page, keeping the text in order through binding; inherited from manuscript into print.

Formally notable twice over: (i) its content is DEFINED by a cross-page identity condition (see :CatchwordShape); (ii) its primary addressee is the binder.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:ColophonPage

Conventions

printer's colophon en · colophon (achevé d'imprimer) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ColophonPage

Closing statement of production: printer's name, date of completion, serial number, date of legal deposit; Greek 'finishing stroke', continuing the scribal tradition of production data at the end.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 33; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.67.
Class

:ConsultativeReading

Conventions

consultative reading en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConsultativeReading

Not read through but consulted: random access to a self-contained unit (:readingUnit), typically an entry or lemma: the dictionary, the encyclopedia, the manual. The whole is not meant to be traversed.

Domain of:readingUnit
Class

:ContributorNamesElement

Conventions

names of translator(s), preface-writer(s), person(s) responsible en · traducteurs, préfaciers, responsables fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContributorNamesElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
Class

:CopyrightPage

Conventions

copyright page en · page de copyright fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CopyrightPage

Carries publisher's address, copyright notice (symbol, year, owner), renewal indications, rights statement, publication date and history, country of printing, impression line, printing number/year, ISBN/ISSN/DOI, original-language title/publisher/copyright for translations, acknowledgments, permissions, CIP data, paper durability statement (ISO 9706, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992).

SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.20–1.35; Genette 1997, p. 32 (mentions légales).
Class

:CoverIllustration

Conventions

specific illustration en · illustration spécifique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoverIllustration

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24; credit for the cover art on the back flap, CMOS 17, §1.73.
Class

:CoverPhrase

Conventions

authorial or allographic phrase en · formule auctoriale ou allographe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoverPhrase

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 28–29 (on the band).
Class

:DateElement

Conventions

date en · date fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DateElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
Class

:DedicationElement

Conventions

dedication (of the work) en · dédicace d'œuvre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DedicationElement

The dedication of the work (dédier), possibly a dedicatory epistle (p. 118); may also head a division (p. 127) or come from the translator (p. 130, Tristram Shandy's fifty-guinea dedication); dedicatee private or public, including in memoriam (p. 131). Distinct from the handwritten exemplar inscription (dédicacer, p. 32/35), which belongs to the copy.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 110–131, 32, 35.
Class

:DeluxeEditionMention

Conventions

mention of deluxe editions en · mention de tirages de luxe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeluxeEditionMention

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32.
Class

:EphemeralBook

Conventions

ephemeral / self-consuming book en · livre éphémère fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EphemeralBook

A book designed to decay, combust, or be consumed as part of its meaning; tests implicit persistence assumptions.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade; Cai Guo-Qiang's Danger Book; Xu Bing's Tobacco Book).
Class

:EpigraphElement

Conventions

epigraph en · épigraphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EpigraphElement

A quotation placed at the threshold; canonical place the first right-hand page after the dedication (before the preface), or the end of the book (then a metagraph, p. 149); anonymous or onymous (p. 153).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 144–153.
Class

:EpitextElement

Conventions

epitext element en · élément d'épitexte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EpitextElement

A paratext element not materially appended to the text in the same volume, circulating freely in a virtually unlimited physical and social space (interviews, correspondence, press releases; in CMOS terms also metadata and abstracts).

Sub-class of:ParatextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 344; CMOS 17, §§1.75–1.76.
Class

:ExpectedReadingOrder

Conventions

expected reading order en · ordre de lecture attendu fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ExpectedReadingOrder

The reading order a book projects for its reader -- normative and author/genre-given, as opposed to the physical :OrderingRegime and to the per-event :realizedSequence. A realized sequence may conform to it or deviate from it.

Its paratextual expression (a 'how to use this book' note, a chapter-dependency diagram, a reading itinerary, a graded table of contents) is a :ReadingItinerary peritext.

SourcesGenette 1997 (reading itineraries); Aarseth 1997 (Cybertext: ergodic traversal); Carrión 1975 (a sequence of moments).
Class

:ExploratoryReading

Conventions

exploratory reading en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ExploratoryReading

The reader builds the order by successive decisions: gamebook, hypertext fiction, interactive narrative -- the reading side of :BranchingOrder and :GenerativeOrder. Aarseth's ergodic traversal: nontrivial effort to select a path.

SourcesAarseth 1997 (Cybertext); Borsuk 2018, ch. 3.
Class

:FacingPageNumbered

Conventions

facing-page-numbered codex en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FacingPageNumbered

A codex numbering the OPENING rather than the page: verso and recto share one number (e.g. a bilingual edition with translation facing text). The recto=verso+1 rule does not apply.

Sub-class of:PaperCodexFixed
Disjoint with:PerPageNumbered
Class

:FlyleafPage

Conventions

flyleaf en · page de garde fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FlyleafPage

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32 (gardes 1 and 2, blank).
Class

:Frontispiece

Conventions

frontispiece en · frontispice fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Frontispiece

Illustration facing the title page; the term migrated from 16th-c. architecture (a building's face) via the ornamental portico title pages of early print.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32; CMOS 17, §1.18; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:GenreIndication

Conventions

genre indication en · indication générique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GenreIndication

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25 (front and back cover; Queneau's asterisk games).
Class

:GuidedPartialReading

Conventions

guided partial reading en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GuidedPartialReading

An author-given PARTIAL order: a dependency structure among units (chapter A before chapter B) leaving some pairs unordered, with parts marked optional on first read (small print, boxes, starred sections, appendices): the textbook. Its dependency diagram is the transitive reduction of :expectedToPrecede.

Class

:HalfTitleElement

Conventions

half title en · faux-titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HalfTitleElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32; CMOS 17, §1.17; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2; Smith 2000.
Class

:HalfTitlePage

Conventions

half-title page en · page de faux-titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HalfTitlePage

Page 3, bearing the (possibly shortened) title and, in inscribed copies, the exemplar dedication; originated in the 1600s to protect and identify unbound book blocks — producer/retail-facing before becoming a readerly threshold.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32; CMOS 17, §1.17; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:HandwrittenInscription

Conventions

handwritten inscription en · dédicace manuscrite fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandwrittenInscription

Class

:ISBNElement

Conventions

ISBN en · ISBN fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ISBNElement

International Standard Book Number (1966–): country/language group, publisher, title/edition, check digit; manifestation-level (each binding/edition its own). Boundary datum: many e-book-only publications circulate without one, and Banner's Vanity Press attached real ISBNs to a tattoo, a stone, a mirror — neither necessary nor sufficient for bookhood, but diagnostic of the trade system.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 26, 32; CMOS 17, §1.32; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4; Striphas 2009.
Class

:ImprimaturElement

Conventions

imprimatur / licence statement en · imprimatur / permission d'imprimer fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ImprimaturElement

Printed statement of ecclesiastical or state permission to print (imprimatur, privilege, licence); the censorship-era element of the copyright-page cluster (Index librorum prohibitorum 1559-1966), superseded by copyright statements as the governing regime shifted from permission to property.

Belongs to the authentication thread (isnad, imprimatur, copyright, provenance, AI disclosure): historically the state-issued mirror-image of :AIDisclosureElement --- a mandated statement about a text's sanctioned origin.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 5 (Rogers), pp. 51-64.
Class

:InscriptionElement

Conventions

inscription (exemplar dedication) en · dédicace d'exemplaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InscriptionElement

Item-level personalization (see :ItemPersonalization below).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 32, 35.
Class

:ItemPersonalization

Conventions

item personalization en · personnalisation d'exemplaire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ItemPersonalization

Modification adhering to the book copy rather than to the book: personal binding, handwritten inscription, bookplate (ex-libris), handwritten marginal notes. Encodes Dane's book / book-copy distinction: 'part of the copy without being part of the book'.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 35; Dane 2012 via Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:LinearReading

Conventions

linear reading en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinearReading

Read through, first unit to last, in item order: the novel; the default expected order over a fixed total order.

Class

:Marginalia

Conventions

marginalia en · notes manuscrites en marge fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Marginalia

Reader-produced inscription in margins and blanks (notes, manicules, doodles, scribal complaints); belongs to the Item while simultaneously constituting new authored content — an acknowledged FRBR strain: a Work whose manifestation substrate IS another work's Item.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 35; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary; Sherman 2008.
Class

:MuteBookObject

Conventions

mute book object en · livre-objet muet fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MuteBookObject

A book rendered deliberately illegible or inaccessible while remaining recognizable as a book (sanded, pulped, carved, sausage-cured, painted over); satisfies material and paratextual axioms while violating retrieval/affordance axioms.

Sub-class of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 ('The Book as Mute Object'); Stewart 2011 (Paulsrud; Kokin; Roth's Literaturwurst; Novo; Spector).
Class

:MuteCoverPage

Conventions

mute cover page (covers 2 and 3) en · pages 2 et 3 de couverture (muettes) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MuteCoverPage

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 25.
Class

:NotePlacement

Conventions

note placement en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NotePlacement

v0.5.14: a note's placement is a feature the visual grammar assigns to notes (a :VisualGrammarRule on :NoteElement prescribes :FootNote, :MarginNote...), not a property of the note in the linguistic book: the same note moves from foot to end of chapter between editions. What the note keeps is its referent (:annotates).

Class

:OnymityRegime

Conventions

onymity regime en · régime onymique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OnymityRegime

Class

:OrderingRegime

Conventions

ordering regime en · régime d'ordonnancement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrderingRegime

The mode in which a book's content units are sequenced: fixed by the item, branching by authored choice structure, or instantiated only by a reader's manipulation.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3; Carrión 1975 (a book = a sequence of spaces and of moments).
Class

:OtherWorksList

Conventions

list of works by the same author / same publisher / same series en · liste d'œuvres du même auteur ou de la même collection fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OtherWorksList

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 25, 27, 32.
Class

:PaidAdvertisement

Conventions

paid advertisement en · publicité payante fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaidAdvertisement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 26.
Class

:PaperCodexFixed

Conventions

fixed-layout paper codex en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperCodexFixed

Scoping class for the pagination constraints: the ordinary printed book.

Class

:ParatextAddressee

Conventions

paratext addressee en · destinataire du paratexte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParatextAddressee

The party for whom a paratext element is primarily functional; extends Genette's sender/addressee analysis with the production worker, underplayed in his reader-oriented account.

Range of:addressedTo
SourcesGenette 1997; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (devices that helped printers and binders before devices that helped readers).
Class

:ParatextElement

Conventions

paratext element en · élément de paratexte fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParatextElement

An element accompanying the text and presenting it; for each element one asks: where? when? how? from whom? to whom? to do what? (Genette's six questions). livre = texte + paratexte.

SourcesGenette 1997; librorum.nw (GENETTE notes).
Class

:PerPageNumbered

Conventions

per-page-numbered codex en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PerPageNumbered

A codex numbering each page individually (the ordinary case), as opposed to :FacingPageNumbered, where a number is shared across the two pages of an opening (Budé, Loeb).

Sub-class of:PaperCodexFixed
Class

:PersonalBinding

Conventions

personal binding en · reliure personnelle fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PersonalBinding

Class

:PleaseInsert

Conventions

please-insert en · prière d'insérer fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PleaseInsert

Historically staged element: first a release communicated to the press (p. 105), then a loose insert (p. 104), finally absorbed into the back cover (p. 110).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 104–110, 25.
Class

:Postface

Conventions

postface en · postface fr

also: afterword; postscript; après-propos; après-dire; post-scriptum

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Postface

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 161.
Class

:Preface

Conventions

preface en · préface fr

also: introduction; foreword; prologue; note; notice; presentation; preamble; warning; prelude; preliminary remarks; proem; avant-propos; avertissement; avant-dire; discours préliminaire; exorde; proème

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Preface

Introductory allocution about the text; CMOS distinguishes the foreword (by someone other than the author, signed at the end with place and date, §1.40) from the preface (by the author, §1.41).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 161; CMOS 17, §§1.40–1.41.
Class

:PrefaceStance

Conventions

preface stance en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrefaceStance

Class

:PriceElement

Conventions

price en · prix de vente fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PriceElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25.
Class

:PrintRunElement

Conventions

number of printings or editions en · numéro de tirage ou édition fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrintRunElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25; CMOS 17 impression line, §1.28.
Class

:PrizeMention

Conventions

mention of a literary prize (won — or not won) en · mention de prix littéraire fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrizeMention

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 28 and fn. 17.
Class

:PublisherAddressElement

Conventions

address of the publisher en · adresse de l'éditeur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PublisherAddressElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24; CMOS 17, §1.20.
Class

:PublisherNameElement

Conventions

name / trade name / initials / colophon of the publisher en · nom, raison sociale, sigle et/ou emblème de l'éditeur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PublisherNameElement

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (printer's devices as proto-logos).
Class

:ReadTimeIndicator

Conventions

read-time indicator en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadTimeIndicator

Duration-based progress paratext ('12 min left in chapter') replacing pagination where the page's paratexts do not apply.

Sub-class of:ParatextElement
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Editions at Play measuring length in read time).
Class

:ReadingItinerary

Conventions

reading itinerary en · itinéraire de lecture fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadingItinerary

The peritext that EXPRESSES an expected reading order: a 'how to use this book' note, a chapter-dependency diagram, a graded table of contents, Cortázar's Tablero de dirección.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997 (the author's/publisher's reading instructions).
Class

:ReadingStratum

Conventions

reading stratum en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadingStratum

A layer of first-read priority attached to a content unit.

Class

:Register

Conventions

register (of first words) en · registre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Register

Incunable-era front list of each section's first word for the binder's collation; precursor of the reader-facing table of contents.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2.
Class

:RunningHead

Conventions

running head (running foot) en · titre courant fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RunningHead

Repeated heading at the top (or foot) of pages; can entitle an untitled chapter, elaborate the title, or play truant from it (Genette on La Chartreuse); layout conventions CMOS §§1.12–1.16.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 316; CMOS 17, §§1.12–1.16.
Class

:SenderRole

Conventions

sender role en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SenderRole

Genette's sender typology, shared by prefaces and notes: authorial (autographic), actorial (by a person in the story), allographic (by a third party, e.g. editorial).

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 181 (prefaces), pp. 337–340 (notes).
Class

:SeriesEmblem

Conventions

name and/or colophon of the series en · titre et/ou emblème de la collection fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeriesEmblem

The series (collection, p. 22) as peritext: its name/emblem, the name of the person responsible, mention of the original series; on a series title page also volume number, general editor, previously published titles (CMOS 1.18).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 22, 24; CMOS 17, §1.18.
Class

:SeriesManifesto

Conventions

series statement of principles en · manifeste de collection fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeriesManifesto

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 25, 27.
Class

:SignatureFacsimile

Conventions

facsimile of the author's signature en · fac-similé de la signature fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SignatureFacsimile

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
Class

:SignatureMark

Conventions

signature mark en · signature fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SignatureMark

Alphanumeric mark on a gathering's first page identifying its place in the collation, for the binder.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
Class

:SkeuomorphicParatext

Conventions

skeuomorphic paratext en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SkeuomorphicParatext

A digital paratext imitating a codex paratext or behavior without its mechanical necessity: virtual dog-ears and bookmarks, page-turn animation, creamy page backgrounds.

Each instance should carry a :remediates link to the codex feature imitated.

Sub-class of:ParatextElement
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 4 (Voyager Expanded Books' dog-ear; Kindle conventions).
Class

:SuggestedReadingPath

Conventions

suggested reading path en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SuggestedReadingPath

One concrete named itinerary the book proposes: an ordered selection of content units (an rdf:Seq via :pathSequence): a 'short course', a 'beginner's path', Cortázar's Rayuela ordering.

Domain of:pathSequence
SourcesGenette 1997; Cortázar, Rayuela (1963, two reading orders).
Class

:TitlePage

Conventions

title page en · page de titre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TitlePage

Carries full title, subtitle, names of author/editor/translator, edition number, publisher's name, location, and colophon (logo).

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 33; CMOS 17, §1.19; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (development c. 1480, from the scroll's titulus).
Class

:TypographicNote

Conventions

typesetting / paper description en · description typographique, choix du papier fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypographicNote

Statement of the typeface, layout, and paper chosen — material choices as declared peritext.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 34.
Class

:WorkTitleElement

Conventions

title of the work en · titre de l'ouvrage fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WorkTitleElement

The work's title(s), historically mutable; analyzed into primary title / secondary title / subtitle (p. 56), thematic vs rhematic function (p. 79 — 'What is the name of this book?'), and terminal title (p. 65, Debussy).

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 55–79.
Object property

:addressedTo

Conventions

addressed to en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/addressedTo

Primary functional addressee; may carry several values diachronically (the half title: producer-facing protection, then retail identification, then readerly threshold).

Object property

:appearsOn

Conventions

appears on en · figure sur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appearsOn

Relates a peritext element to the physical location (cover panel, page, flap, band...) that bears it — Genette's 'where?'.

Object property

:expectedToPrecede

Conventions

expected to precede en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/expectedToPrecede

Content unit A is expected to be read before content unit B (a prerequisite/dependency edge). Transitive; its transitive reduction is the textbook's chapter-dependency diagram. A partial order: unrelated units may be read in either order.

Domain:Division
Characteristicstransitive
Object property

:expressesReadingOrder

Conventions

expresses reading order en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/expressesReadingOrder

Object property

:hasAppearanceTiming

Conventions

has appearance timing en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasAppearanceTiming

Optional. Absence is read as :OriginalAppearance — the element appeared at the book's publication, the trivial default. A value is asserted only to record a departure: :LaterAppearance, :DelayedAppearance, or :PosthumousAppearance for a paratext element that entered the work after its first publication.

SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 174–175 (preface timing), generalised to all paratext (pp. 5–6).
Object property

:hasAuthenticity

Conventions

has authenticity en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasAuthenticity

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 181.
Object property

:hasCatchword

Conventions

has catchword en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCatchword

Object property

:hasExpectedReadingOrder

Conventions

has expected reading order en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasExpectedReadingOrder

A book may project more than one (a textbook: a short course and a full course), so this is NOT functional; concrete alternatives are :SuggestedReadingPath.

Object property

:hasLine

Conventions

has line en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLine

Bridge property physical page → visual line, used by the emptiness and widow shapes.

Object property

:hasNotePlacement

Conventions

has placement en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNotePlacement

v0.5.14: a shorthand for the placement this note receives under the grammar in force. Asserted on the note itself it records an authorial decision about placement (Finnegans Wake ch. X, noted in both margins and at the foot), i.e. the author choosing the grammar.

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 320.
Object property

:hasOnymityRegime

Conventions

has onymity regime en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOnymityRegime

Object property

:hasOrderingRegime

Conventions

has ordering regime en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOrderingRegime

The pagination SHACL shapes below apply only where the value is :FixedTotalOrder.

Characteristicsfunctional
Object property

:hasPage

Conventions

has page en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPage

Object property

:hasPrefaceStance

Conventions

has stance en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPrefaceStance

Domain(:Preface ∪ :Postface)
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 185.
Object property

:hasReadingStratum

Conventions

has reading stratum en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReadingStratum

Object property

:hasSenderRole

Conventions

has sender role en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSenderRole

Object property

:inscribedInItem

Conventions

inscribed in item en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inscribedInItem

Object property

:isFragmentOf

Conventions

is fragment of en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isFragmentOf

Relates a page-bounded fragment of a broken element (paragraph broken across pages, word broken across lines) to the whole element.

Object property

:pathSequence

Conventions

path sequence en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pathSequence

The ordered content-unit sequence of a suggested path (an rdf:Seq of :Division).

Object property

:readingUnit

Conventions

reading unit en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/readingUnit

The self-contained unit a consultative reading actually reads (the dictionary entry, the encyclopedia article); entries may warrant their own :Division subclass.

Object property

:remediates

Conventions

remediates en · remédiatise fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/remediates

Relates a (typically newer) carrier form or design feature to an older one whose forms, behaviors, or visual conventions it borrows and refashions.

Holds between punned carrier-form individuals or feature individuals; not asserted transitive (each link is a distinct historical claim) nor asymmetric (older media borrow back).

SourcesBolter & Grusin 1999; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (codex columns remediating scroll paginae; early type remediating manuscript hands; e-readers remediating the paperback).
Object property

:suggestsReadingPath

Conventions

suggests reading path en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/suggestsReadingPath

Data property

:firstWord

Conventions

first word en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/firstWord

Convenience property: the first word token of the page's first line of body text; derived — materialize before validation.

Characteristicsfunctional
Data property

:fragmentIndex

Conventions

fragment index en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/fragmentIndex

Data property

:hasCallout

Conventions

has callout (indicator) en · avec appel fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCallout

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 321.
Data property

:textContent

Conventions

text content en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/textContent

Data property

:tocPosition

Conventions

TOC position (front/back) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/tocPosition

SourcesGenette 1997, p. 316 (devant en EN/DE, derrière en FR).
Individual

:ActorialSender

Conventions

actorial en · actoriale fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ActorialSender

Instance of:SenderRole
Individual

:AllographicSender

Conventions

allographic (editorial) en · allographe (éditoriale) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AllographicSender

Instances now include the curator of model-generated (or otherwise machine-produced) text: a third party who selects, arranges, and warrants text composed elsewhere — the 'elsewhere' being a :GenerationProcess. This is a use Genette did not anticipate, not a new role. The AI era adds no sender role.

Instance of:SenderRole
Individual

:Anonymity

Conventions

anonymity en · anonymat fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Anonymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
Individual

:Apocrypha

Conventions

apocrypha en · apocryphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Apocrypha

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
Individual

:Apocryphal

Conventions

apocryphal en · apocryphe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Apocryphal

Instance of:Authenticity
Individual

:AssumptiveStance

Conventions

assumptive en · assomptive fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AssumptiveStance

Instance of:PrefaceStance
Individual

:Authentic

Conventions

authentic en · authentique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Authentic

Instance of:Authenticity
Individual

:AuthorSupposition

Conventions

imagining the author en · supposition d'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorSupposition

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
Individual

:AuthorialSender

Conventions

authorial (autographic) en · auctoriale (autographe) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorialSender

Instance of:SenderRole
Individual

:BranchingOrder

Conventions

branching (authored partial) order en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BranchingOrder

The author fixes a directed choice structure; each traversal linearizes one path (Choose Your Own Adventure; hypertext fiction; Shiga's Meanwhile).

Instance of:OrderingRegime
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
Individual

:CentMilleMilliards

Conventions

Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CentMilleMilliards

FRBR stress test: one item whose sliced lines generate 10^14 reader-realizable sonnets. Decide explicitly whether each realized sonnet is a distinct fabio:Expression or the combinatorial system is the single Expression; Borsuk's account (the potential is the work) supports the latter.

Instance of:PhysicalBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
Individual

:CompositionNo1

Conventions

Saporta, Composition No. 1 (1961) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompositionNo1

SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 3–4 (incl. the 2011 Visual Editions reissue with shuffling iPad app).
Individual

:ConsentedApocrypha

Conventions

apocrypha with permission en · apocryphe consenti fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConsentedApocrypha

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
Individual

:ConvenienceAnonymity

Conventions

anonymity of convenience en · anonymat de convenance fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConvenienceAnonymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
Individual

:CoreFirstRead

Conventions

core (first read) en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoreFirstRead

Instance of:ReadingStratum
Individual

:DeFactoAnonymity

Conventions

de facto anonymity en · anonymat de fait fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeFactoAnonymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
Individual

:DelayedAppearance

Conventions

delayed en · tardive fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DelayedAppearance

Individual

:DisavowingStance

Conventions

disavowing en · dénégative fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisavowingStance

Instance of:PrefaceStance
Individual

:EndOfChapterNote

Conventions

at the end of chapter en · fin de chapitre fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EndOfChapterNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Individual

:EndOfVolumeNote

Conventions

at the end of volume en · fin de volume fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EndOfVolumeNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Individual

:FalseAnonymity

Conventions

false (cryptic) anonymity en · faux anonymat (cryptique) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FalseAnonymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
Individual

:Fictive

Conventions

fictive en · fictive fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Fictive

Instance of:Authenticity
Individual

:FixedTotalOrder

Conventions

fixed total order en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FixedTotalOrder

Every pair of content units ordered, the order a property of the item (bound sequence, numbered pages); the regime presupposed by the pagination axioms.

Instance of:OrderingRegime
Individual

:FootNote

Conventions

at the foot of the page en · en bas de page fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FootNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Individual

:Ghostwriting

Conventions

plagiarism with permission (ghostwriting) en · plagiat consenti fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Ghostwriting

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
Individual

:InterlinearNote

Conventions

between the lines en · entre les lignes fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InterlinearNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Individual

:LaterAppearance

Conventions

later en · ultérieure fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LaterAppearance

Individual

:MarginNote

Conventions

in the margins (side note) en · en manchette fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarginNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Individual

:Onymity

Conventions

onymity en · onymat fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Onymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
Individual

:OptionalFirstRead

Conventions

optional on first read en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OptionalFirstRead

Deferrable material: small-print passages, boxed asides, starred/advanced sections, appendices.

Instance of:ReadingStratum
Individual

:OriginalAppearance

Conventions

original en · originale fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OriginalAppearance

The element appears with the first edition, at the book's publication. This is the trivial default and is normally left implicit (see :hasAppearanceTiming).

Individual

:Plagiarism

Conventions

plagiarism en · plagiat fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Plagiarism

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
Individual

:PosthumousAppearance

Conventions

posthumous en · posthume fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PosthumousAppearance

Individual

:ProducerAddressee

Conventions

production agent (binder, collator, pressman) en · agent de fabrication fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ProducerAddressee

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; Stallybrass 2001.
Individual

:Pseudonymity

Conventions

pseudonymity en · pseudonymat fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pseudonymity

Instance of:OnymityRegime
Individual

:ReaderAddressee

Conventions

reader en · lecteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReaderAddressee

Individual

:ReaderInstantiatedOrder

Conventions

reader-instantiated order en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReaderInstantiatedOrder

Little or no item-level order; a sequence exists only as the outcome of a reading event (shuffled cards, refolded accordions, Queneau's interchangeable strips); possibly bracketed by fixed opening/closing units (Johnson's The Unfortunates; Coover's 'Heart Suit').

Instance of:OrderingRegime
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
Individual

:ReferenceStratum

Conventions

reference only en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReferenceStratum

Not part of any read-through: tables, glossaries, indexes consulted on demand.

Instance of:ReadingStratum
Individual

:RetailAddressee

Conventions

bookseller / retail system en · appareil commercial fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RetailAddressee

The distribution and sale apparatus: ISBN and barcode, genre labels for shelving, spine titling for outward-facing shelves.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 2 and 4; Striphas 2009.
Individual

:SpecialVolumeNote

Conventions

in a special volume en · volume spécial fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpecialVolumeNote

Instance of:NotePlacement
Class

:AIDisclosureElement

Generated book

AI disclosure statement en · mention de génération par IA fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AIDisclosureElement

A peritext element declaring that (and to what extent) a book's content was produced by generative models; a legally mandated threshold — a state-imposed paratext, the newest member of the copyright page's family.

Sub-class of:PeritextElement
SourcesRegulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), Art. 50 (transparency obligations); editorial (v0.3).
Class

:AutomaticWriting

Generated book

automatic writing en · écriture automatique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AutomaticWriting

A generation process in which a human agent produces text disclaimed as issuing from the unconscious rather than from deliberate, responsible composition; the surrealist ancestor of machine generation and the reason :GeneratedProduction is medium-neutral.

The agent is attached by prov:wasAssociatedWith yet is NOT the responsible author of the words — the same agent/responsibility split the machine case exhibits. Dalí is the cautionary individual: the 'automatism' may be prepared and staged, i.e. a claimed :GeneratedProduction status over a causally authored text, which is why production status is claim, not fact.

Sub-class of:GenerationProcess
SourcesBreton & Soupault, Les Champs magnétiques (1919); Breton, Manifeste du surréalisme (1924); Dalí (paranoiac-critical method); editorial (v0.3).
Class

:DynamicallyGeneratedBook

Generated book

dynamically generated book en · livre généré dynamiquement fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DynamicallyGeneratedBook

A digital book whose Expression is (partly) generated within the reading event, e.g. branching narrative produced in real time from reader feedback.

FRBR consequence, to be argued in the monograph: here fabio:Expression loses temporal priority over the reading — the :ReadingEvent generates rather than traverses the Expression. Multimodal generation (text + image + sound in one process) lands in the existing observable layer: the outputs are :PixelBook and :SoundingBook states.

SourcesEditorial (v0.3).
Class

:GenerationProcess

Generated book

generation process en · processus de génération fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GenerationProcess

An activity in which a language model produces or transforms text that enters a book's content; the generative counterpart of :OCRProcess — both are provenance-bearing activities whose traces matter to the identity of the digital item.

The 'human + AI mixed creation' of industry discourse is, ontologically, nothing but a prov chain alternating :GenerationProcess and human authorial/editorial activities. The labeling debate lacks a vocabulary; this module supplies one.

Sub-class ofprov:Activity
SourcesEditorial (v0.3), absorbing the publisher memorandum's Part I; cf. :OCRProcess (facet 3).
Class

:LanguageModel

Generated book

language model en · modèle de langue fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LanguageModel

A generative statistical model of language capable of producing text conditioned on a prompt; participates in book production as a software agent whose activities are recorded as provenance.

Sub-class ofprov:SoftwareAgent
SourcesEditorial (v0.3); PROV-O 2013 (SoftwareAgent).
Class

:ProductionStatus

Generated book

production status en · statut de production fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ProductionStatus

The claimed status of a text with respect to authorial responsibility, NOT a description of its causal history. :hasProductionStatus asserts how a text is presented; :hasGeneratedProportion (6.1) records what was in fact generated. The two may disagree — that disagreement is exactly what misattribution and staged automatism consist in.

SourcesEditorial (v0.3); the authored/generated distinction argued in the monograph's LLM chapter.
Class

:Prompt

Generated book

prompt en · amorce (prompt) fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Prompt

The textual instruction conditioning a generation process.

Deliberately open FRBR question, to be argued in the monograph: is the prompt an Expression whose realization is delegated to the model, or a mere production instruction (like a binder's signature mark — producer-facing text that is not part of the work)? The catchword precedent suggests instructions can be both textual and non-authorial.

Range of:hasPrompt
SourcesEditorial (v0.3).
Object property

:hasProductionStatus

Generated book

has production status en · a pour statut de production fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasProductionStatus

Optional; the unmarked case is :AuthoredProduction. States a claim about the text, to be held consistent with its surrounding provenance — but deliberately separable from it, so that a text with a generation history (positive :hasGeneratedProportion) may still be claimed :AuthoredProduction, and vice versa.

SourcesEditorial (v0.3).
Object property

:hasPrompt

Generated book

has prompt en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPrompt

Sub-property ofprov:used
Range:Prompt
Object property

:producedByGeneration

Generated book

produced by generation en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedByGeneration

Parallel to :producedByOCR; a digital content item may bear both (scanned, OCRed, then model-corrected — three provenance layers).

Object property

:usedAsTrainingData

Generated book

used as training data by en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usedAsTrainingData

Relates a digital item to a language model whose training corpus included it; the book-as-data relation.

Continuity, not rupture: the mass digitization Borsuk describes (Google Books, Internet Archive) created the corpora; :producedByOCR and :usedAsTrainingData are two arcs of the same circuit. The attendant intellectual-property disputes are noted as context and remain out of scope for the ontology.

SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4; editorial (v0.3).
Object property

:usesModel

Generated book

uses model en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesModel

Object property

:withinReadingEvent

Generated book

within reading event en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/withinReadingEvent

Relates a generation process to the reading event inside which it occurs (dynamic generation); absent for pre-publication generation.

Data property

:hasGeneratedProportion

Generated book

has generated proportion en · a une proportion générée fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGeneratedProportion

The proportion (0–1) of a book's content produced by generation processes; a provenance summary statistic, attachable at Expression or Item level.

This is the ontological form of the platforms' 'proportion of AI-generated content' label: a derived provenance annotation, not a moral category.

SourcesEditorial (v0.3), absorbing the memorandum's labeling theme.
Individual

:AIGhostwriting

Generated book

AI ghostwriting en · plagiat consenti machinique fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AIGhostwriting

The onymity regime in which model-written text is signed by a human name; structurally Genette's 'plagiarism with permission' (ghostwriting) with a software agent as the unnamed writer — the permission being a license rather than a contract with a person.

Instance of:OnymityRegime
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47; editorial (v0.3).
Individual

:AuthoredProduction

Generated book

authored en · à responsabilité d'auteur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthoredProduction

A text offered as issuing from a responsible agent — one who intends it, can be credited or blamed, and answers for the particular words. The status Genette's sender axis presupposes.

Individual

:GeneratedProduction

Generated book

generated en · généré fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GeneratedProduction

A text offered as issuing from a process rather than from an agent bearing authorial responsibility for the particular words. Medium-neutral: covers a language model's output, surrealist automatic writing, and combinatorial generation alike.

Individual

:GenerativeOrder

Generated book

generative order en · ordre génératif fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GenerativeOrder

The ordering regime in which the content units themselves — not merely their sequence — are produced during the reading event, conditioned on reader input or feedback; the limit case beyond reader-instantiated order.

Historical anchor already in the ontology: :CentMilleMilliards is proto-generative — a combinatorial system whose realized text exists only per reading event. The dynamically generated book generalizes the Queneau stress test; it does not require new theory, only this individual.

Instance of:OrderingRegime
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3; editorial (v0.3), absorbing the memorandum's 'personalized reading experience'.
Individual

:RegulatorAddressee

Generated book

regulator / legal system en · régulateur fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RegulatorAddressee

The legal apparatus as primary functional addressee of a paratext element whose presence is mandated by law rather than by trade custom or readerly need.

Completes the addressee series reader / producer / retail (facet 5): the copyright notice and legal-deposit mention were already implicitly regulator-facing; the AI-transparency statement makes the addressee impossible to ignore.

SourcesEditorial (v0.3); cf. CMOS 17, §§1.20–1.35 (copyright page as proto-regulatory paratext).
Class

:Book

Ontology metadata

book en · livre fr · Buch de · βιβλίο el

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Book

The linguistic contents of a book together with its peritext.

Sub-class offabio:Expression
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 16; Genette 1997 (livre = texte + paratexte).
Class

:ObservableBook

Ontology metadata

observable book en · livre observable fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ObservableBook

Restored in v0.5.7 after its accidental deletion in v0.5.5.

Equivalent to(:VisualBook ∪ :SoundingBook ∪ :TactileBook)
Sub-classes:AsemicBook
Range of:observes
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 52.
Class

:Orthography

Ontology metadata

orthography en · orthographe fr

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Orthography

The standardisation and regulation of a writing system: a PRESCRIPTIVE module that licenses, from the graphematic solution space of a unit (typically a word), the form(s) deemed correct. After Neef (2015) an OPTIONAL module — not every writing system has one — distinct from the writing system and from the descriptive graphematics beneath it.

Nerius's (2007, 2020) four features: :isExternallyCodified, :isSociallyBinding, :hasVariabilityDegree, :isStatic; the history via :standardisationType. Orthography is the writing system's SURFACE REPRESENTATION: for a regulated system users meet orthographemes and the grapheme layer is reconstructed behind them (M&D 2022, §5.1).

SourcesMeletis & Dürscheid 2022, ch. 5; Neef 2015 (multimodular theory); Nerius 2007, 2020.
Data property

:hasORCIDidentifier

Ontology metadata

has ORCID identifier en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasORCIDidentifier

Annotation property

:region

Ontology metadata

region en

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/region

The region of the LIBRORUM architecture a term belongs to (Λ, C_cont, C_form, M_cont, M_form, Φ), or the chapter it is declared in (Carriers, Conventions, Generated book).

Individual

:yannis

Ontology metadata

https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/yannis

Instance offoaf:Person