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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.6).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 82; CMOS 17, §§1.4, 1.59–1.68.
text / body matter en · corps du texte fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BodyPart
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 81; CMOS 17, §§1.3–1.4.
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, §§3.21-3.38 (captions and legends); editorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
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).
chapter en · chapitre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Chapter
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.
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.
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 10 (Atkin), pp. 123-136; Genette 1997, p. 399 (dismissal).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
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).
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.
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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.
SourcesIngarden 1931; editorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
didascalic mode en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DidascalicMode
CLOSED vocabulary: :Prescriptive, :Descriptive.
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).
discursive independence (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursiveIndependence
discursively digressive (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyDigressive
discursively independent (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyIndependent
discursively integrated (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DiscursivelyIntegrated
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.
display list entry (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisplayListEntry
v0.6.9: replaced by :IllustrationListEntry and :TableListEntry.
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.48–1.54.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 19 (Smyth), pp. 251-262; previously named but unclassed in :BackPart.
figure (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Figure
v0.6.9: renamed :Illustration (CMOS ch. 3).
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.6, 1.12; editorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
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).
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 80; CMOS 17, §§1.3–1.4, 1.47.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous); Amtliche Regelung der deutschen Rechtschreibung, part E (Worttrennung).
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, ch. 3 (illustrations and tables); Genette 1997, Conclusion (illustration left aside); editorial (v0.6.8, v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
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.
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.
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 20 (Duncan), pp. 263-274.
intertitle en · intertitre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Intertitle
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 294ff.
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5, after Haralambous); Neef 2015 (orthography licenses from a solution space); PROV-O 2013.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14).
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).
SourcesCMOS 17, §§6.123-6.130 (vertical lists); editorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
list label kind en · type d'étiquette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListLabelKind
CLOSED vocabulary: :NumberLabel, :SymbolLabel, :TermLabel.
list of display items (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ListOfDisplayItems
v0.6.9: withdrawn; :ListOfIllustrations and :ListOfTables are now directly lists.
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.40-1.41.
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.
SourcesCMOS 17, §§1.40-1.41.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesIngarden 1931 (Haupttext and Nebentext); editorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
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.
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.
ornamental break en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OrnamentalBreak
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).
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).
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.
Sub-classes:AIDisclosureElement, :AcknowledgmentsElement, :AuthorNameElement, :AuthorPortrait, :AuthorTitleElement, :BarcodeElement, :BiographicalNotice, :Blurb, :Caption, :Catchword, :CharacterListElement, :ContentsEntry, :ContributorNamesElement, :CoverIllustration, :CoverPhrase, :DateElement, :DedicationElement, :DeluxeEditionMention, :EpigraphElement, :ErrataListElement, :FolioElement, :Frontispiece, :GenreIndication, :HalfTitleElement, :ISBNElement, :Illustration, :IllustrationListEntry, :ImprimaturElement, :IndexElement, :InscriptionElement, :Intertitle, :ListOfIllustrations, :ListOfTables, :NoteElement, :OtherWorksList, :PaidAdvertisement, :PleaseInsert, :Postface, :Preface, :PriceElement, :PrintRunElement, :PrizeMention, :PublisherAddressElement, :PublisherNameElement, :ReadingItinerary, :Register, :RunningHead, :SeriesEmblem, :SeriesManifesto, :SignatureFacsimile, :SignatureMark, :Table, :TableListEntry, :TableOfContents, :TypographicNote, :WorkTitleElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 16 (publisher's peritext).
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
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.
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.11, after Haralambous).
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.
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.10, after Haralambous).
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).
subhead en · intertitre de section fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Subhead
SourcesCMOS 17, §1.56 (subheads have levels; numbered or unnumbered).
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).
SourcesCMOS 17, ch. 3 (illustrations and tables); editorial (v0.6.8, v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
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.
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 316–317; CMOS 17, §1.38; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
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.
tactile grammar rule en · règle de grammaire tactile fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileGrammarRule
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).
title position en · position du titre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TitlePosition
CLOSED vocabulary: :InitialTitle, :TerminalTitle.
typographic break en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypographicBreak
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.
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).
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'.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.6).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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').
after unit en · après l'unité fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/afterUnit
The unit the location immediately follows, at the level chosen.
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).
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).
before unit en · avant l'unité fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/beforeUnit
The unit the location immediately precedes, at the level chosen.
chance resolved at en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/chanceResolvedAt
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
didascalia language en · langue de la didascalie fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascaliaLanguage
Characteristicsfunctional
didascalic attestation en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascalicAttestation
Characteristicsfunctional
didascalic mode en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/didascalicMode
Characteristicsfunctional
earlier member en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/earlierMember
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
has caption en · a pour légende fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCaption
Characteristicsinverse functional
has entry en · a pour entrée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasEntry
An entry of the list; an entry belongs to one list.
Characteristicsinverse functional
has hyphenation point en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasHyphenationPoint
has label en · a pour étiquette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLabel
Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
has morpheme en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMorpheme
has phoneme en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPhoneme
Optionally, the phoneme individuals of the pronunciation, where the phonological system is modelled.
has reference type en · a pour type de renvoi fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReferenceType
Characteristicsfunctional
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
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).
Characteristicsinverse functional
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.
Characteristicsinverse functional
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.
has writing direction en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasWritingDirection
has writing mode en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasWritingMode
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
hyphenated unit en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenatedUnit
Characteristicsfunctional
hyphenation variety en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hyphenationVariety
Characteristicsfunctional
in morpheme en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inMorpheme
in phonological system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inPhonologicalSystem
Characteristicsfunctional
in scope en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inScope
Characteristicsfunctional
in staging en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inStaging
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.
in writing mode en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inWritingMode
Characteristicsfunctional
judged against en · jugé selon fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgedAgainst
The norm or resource the judgement is relative to.
judged property en · propriété jugée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgedProperty
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
Characteristicsfunctional
label kind en · type d'étiquette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/labelKind
Characteristicsfunctional
later member en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/laterMember
Characteristicsfunctional
part of orthography en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/partOfOrthography
Characteristicsfunctional
phonology of en · phonologie de fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/phonologyOf
Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
point in word form en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pointInWordForm
Characteristicsfunctional
pronounced unit en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pronouncedUnit
Characteristicsfunctional
realizes staging en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/realizesStaging
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
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'.
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
scope from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
scope member en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeMember
scope to en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/scopeTo
Characteristicsfunctional
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
has level en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLevel
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 88; CMOS 17, §1.56.
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.
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
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
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
is grammatical en · est grammatical fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isGrammatical
Summary of the :Grammaticality judgements on a sentence; same caveat as :isLexical.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.5).
is numbered en · est numéroté fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isNumbered
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).
judgement value en · valeur du jugement fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/judgementValue
Whether the source judges the unit to have the property.
Characteristicsfunctional
phonemic transcription en · transcription phonémique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/phonemicTranscription
The phonemes, written in IPA ('/lɛd/').
Characteristicsfunctional
point offset en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pointOffset
The number of graphemes of the word form before the point.
Characteristicsfunctional
in force from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeInForceFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
in force until en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeInForceUntil
Characteristicsfunctional
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
row span en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rowSpan
Number of rows the cell spans (default 1).
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
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
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.
attested en · attestée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AttestedDidascalia
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
centred on its line en · centré fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CentredOnLine
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.
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.
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').
English typographic tradition en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EnglishTradition
German typographic tradition en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GermanTradition
grammaticality en · grammaticalité fr · Grammatikalität de
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Grammaticality
Of a sentence: conforming to the syntax of the language variety.
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).
initial title en · titre initial fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InitialTitle
left-to-right en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LeftToRight
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).
marked by an indicator cell en · marqué par un indicateur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarkedByIndicator
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.
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).
number ('1.', '(a)', 'iv)') en · numéro fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NumberLabel
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.
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.
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.
print page number indicated en · page imprimée indiquée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrintPageIndicated
reconstructed en · reconstituée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReconstructedDidascalia
once in production en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedInProduction
per copy en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedPerCopy
per display en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ResolvedPerDisplay
right-to-left en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RightToLeft
symbol (bullet, dash, check box) en · puce fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SymbolLabel
term (headword, glossary or description-list term) en · vedette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TermLabel
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 65; Schironi, To Mega Biblion, Ann Arbor 2010.
top-to-bottom (columnar) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TopToBottom
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (jiance slips fixing the Chinese column).
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).
book parts en · parties du livre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/bookParts
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 85.
discursive independence (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/discursiveIndependence
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous); Spitzmüller 2013, pp. 203-207 (graphisches Wissen); Genette 1997, p. 320 (note placements); CMOS 17, ch. 1.
BRF document (Braille Ready Format, braille ASCII) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BRFDocument
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 40; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg's Plain Vanilla ASCII philosophy).
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.
display placement (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisplayPlacement
v0.6.9: renamed :ScopePlacement.
EPUB document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EPUBDocument
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).
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.
encoded display item (deprecated) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EncodedDisplayItem
v0.6.9: replaced by :EncodedIllustration and :EncodedTable.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
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 ­), 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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14).
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
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.
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.
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
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).
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
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).
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).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
LaTeX document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LaTeXDocument
letter case en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LetterCase
markup document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarkupDocument
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.
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 7–8, 86–87, 245–246; editorial (v0.3.1).
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'.
PEF document (Portable Embosser Format, XML with Unicode braille) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PEFDocument
plain text document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlainTextDocument
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg e-texts).
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.9, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, v0.6.9, after Haralambous); CMOS 17, ch. 3.
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.
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.
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.
Unicode bidi class en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeBidiClass
Individuals:Bidi_AL, :Bidi_AN, :Bidi_B, :Bidi_BN, :Bidi_CS, :Bidi_EN, :Bidi_ES, :Bidi_ET, :Bidi_FSI, :Bidi_L, :Bidi_LRE, :Bidi_LRI, :Bidi_LRO, :Bidi_NSM, :Bidi_ON, :Bidi_PDF, :Bidi_PDI, :Bidi_R, :Bidi_RLE, :Bidi_RLI, :Bidi_RLO, :Bidi_S, :Bidi_WS
Unicode block en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeBlock
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.
Domain of:encodesGrapheme, :encodesPhoneme, :hasBidiClass, :hasBlock, :hasCase, :hasCodePoint, :hasCombiningClass, :hasGeneralCategory, :hasNumericValue, :hasScript, :hasSimpleLowercaseMapping, :hasSimpleUppercaseMapping
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.
Individuals:GC_Cc, :GC_Cf, :GC_Cn, :GC_Co, :GC_Cs, :GC_Ll, :GC_Lm, :GC_Lo, :GC_Lt, :GC_Lu, :GC_Mc, :GC_Me, :GC_Mn, :GC_Nd, :GC_Nl, :GC_No, :GC_Pc, :GC_Pd, :GC_Pe, :GC_Pf, :GC_Pi, :GC_Po, :GC_Ps, :GC_Sc, :GC_Sk, :GC_Sm, :GC_So, :GC_Zl, :GC_Zp, :GC_Zs
Unicode / ISO 15924 script en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/UnicodeScript
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).
Individuals:AboveAnnotatedElement, :AboveTextBlock, :AcrossOpening, :AlignedWithReferent, :BelowAnnotatedElement, :BelowTextBlock, :BreakableAcrossPages, :DistinctTypeface, :EntriesSetApart, :FileLineBreaksShown, :HangingLabel, :KeptWhole, :LabelShownAsText, :LargerThanMainText, :MonospaceGrid, :OnFoldOut, :RepeatedOnEachPage, :RunsParallelToMainText, :SeparatedByBlankSpace, :SeparatedByRule, :SetOffFromRunningText, :SmallerThanMainText, :SoftWrapped, :SyntaxColoured
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14).
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).
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).
XML document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/XMLDocument
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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').
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.
has block en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBlock
The contiguous code-point Block a character sits in (Basic Latin, Arabic, ...). Open code list.
has case en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCase
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
has grapheme class en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGraphemeClass
has narrator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNarrator
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
has rule en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasRule
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.
in tradition en · dans la tradition fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inTradition
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/.
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).
Characteristicsfunctional
prescribes feature en · prescrit le trait fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/prescribesFeature
produced by OCR en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/producedByOCR
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (scanning + OCR pipeline of Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Google Books).
run base direction en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/runBaseDirection
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
spoken with voice en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/spokenWithVoice
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).
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.
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.
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).
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]').
has code point en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCodePoint
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.
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
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.
simple lowercase mapping en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSimpleLowercaseMapping
simple uppercase mapping en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSimpleUppercaseMapping
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.
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
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.
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.
segment end (s) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/segmentEnd
Characteristicsfunctional
segment start (s) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/segmentStart
Characteristicsfunctional
string value en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/stringValue
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
above the text block (head of the page) en · au-dessus du bloc de texte fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AboveTextBlock
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.
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.
alphagram en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Alphagram
A distinctive, meaningless-per-se unit combined in second articulation (members of alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries).
as frontispiece, facing the title page en · en frontispice fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AsFrontispiece
at the end of the book en · en fin de volume fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtEndOfBook
at the end of its division en · en fin de chapitre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtEndOfDivision
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
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
exactly at its location (between two paragraphs, or inside a paragraph) en · exactement à son emplacement fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AtItsLocation
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).
below the text block (foot of the page) en · au-dessous du bloc de texte fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BelowTextBlock
AL — right-to-left Arabic (strong) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_AL
AN — Arabic number en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_AN
B — paragraph separator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_B
BN — boundary neutral en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_BN
CS — common separator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_CS
EN — European number en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_EN
ES — European separator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ES
ET — European terminator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ET
FSI — first-strong isolate en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_FSI
L — left-to-right (strong) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_L
LRE — left-to-right embedding en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRE
LRI — left-to-right isolate en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRI
LRO — left-to-right override en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_LRO
NSM — nonspacing mark en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_NSM
ON — other neutral en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_ON
PDF — pop directional formatting en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_PDF
PDI — pop directional isolate en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_PDI
R — right-to-left (strong) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_R
RLE — right-to-left embedding en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLE
RLI — right-to-left isolate en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLI
RLO — right-to-left override en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_RLO
S — segment separator en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_S
WS — whitespace en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Bidi_WS
the whole book en · le livre entier fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BookScope
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.
lowercase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseLower
caseless en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseNone
96.13% of Lo letters are caseless (Han, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries).
titlecase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseTitle
uppercase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CaseUpper
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
a division en · une division fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DivisionScope
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.
Cc — other, control en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cc
Cf — other, format (soft hyphen, ZWJ/ZWNJ, bidi controls) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cf
Cn — other, not assigned en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cn
Co — other, private use en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Co
Cs — other, surrogate en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Cs
Ll — letter, lowercase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Ll
Lm — letter, modifier en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lm
Lo — letter, other (caseless: abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, Han) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lo
Lt — letter, titlecase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lt
Lu — letter, uppercase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Lu
Mc — mark, spacing combining en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Mc
Me — mark, enclosing en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Me
Mn — mark, nonspacing en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Mn
Nd — number, decimal digit en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Nd
Nl — number, letter (Roman, Gothic, cuneiform numerals) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Nl
No — number, other (fractions, circled) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_No
Pc — punctuation, connector en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pc
Pd — punctuation, dash en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pd
Pe — punctuation, close en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pe
Pf — punctuation, final quote en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pf
Pi — punctuation, initial quote en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Pi
Po — punctuation, other (incl. logograms &, @, %) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Po
Ps — punctuation, open en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Ps
Sc — symbol, currency en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sc
Sk — symbol, modifier en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sk
Sm — symbol, math en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Sm
So — symbol, other (emojis, many dingbats, the bismillah ligature) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_So
Zl — separator, line en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zl
Zp — separator, paragraph en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zp
Zs — separator, space en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GC_Zs
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.
label hanging, text aligned after it en · étiquette en sommaire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HangingLabel
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.
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).
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).
larger than the main text en · plus grand que le texte courant fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LargerThanMainText
a location between two paragraphs en · un emplacement entre deux paragraphes fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationBetweenParagraphs
a location inside a paragraph en · un emplacement à l'intérieur d'un paragraphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationInParagraph
a location (any) en · un emplacement (quelconque) fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LocationScope
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
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.
on a page of its own (full page, full-page plate) en · en pleine page fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OnPageOfItsOwn
a paragraph en · un paragraphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParagraphScope
repeated on each page en · répété à chaque page fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RepeatedOnEachPage
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.
separated by blank space en · séparé par un blanc fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeparatedByBlankSpace
separated by a rule en · séparé par un filet fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeparatedByRule
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.
smaller than the main text en · plus petit que le texte courant fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SmallerThanMainText
topogram en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Topogram
Essentially punctuation: structures and segments sequences of alphagrams and logograms (Anis p.116).
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.
CSS stylesheet en · feuille de style CSS fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CSSStylesheet
kind of code en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CodeKind
CLOSED vocabulary: :ProgramSource, :DeclarativeMarkup, :SerializedStructure, :BinaryInstructionStream.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2).
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).
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).
coordinate system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoordinateSystem
DVI document en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DVIDocument
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).
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'.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 38; Haralambous 2019 (correction: fixed-form formats carry numeric text).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15, after Haralambous).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); ISO 32000 (embedded font programs).
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).
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (contrast class).
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'.
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.
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).
format documentation en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FormatDocumentation
CLOSED vocabulary: :StandardizedFormat, :PublishedFormat, :UndocumentedFormat.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.4); cf. Knuth, METAFONT (glyph as mathematical outline); Borsuk 2018, Glossary (font = product).
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.
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.
SourcesLiang 1983 (Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er); Knuth, The TeXbook, appendix H; editorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.15).
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'.
SourcesHaralambous 2019 (multipage TIFF, image-only DjVu vs. PDF/PostScript/DVI).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.14, after Haralambous).
make-up mode en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MakeUpMode
CLOSED vocabulary: :DerivedMakeUp, :AuthoredMakeUp.
multipage TIFF en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MultipageTIFF
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.
Domain of:appliesTransform, :coversGrapheme, :hasAxisSetting, :hasFontSize, :hasMyphColor, :instantiatesGlyph, :nextMyph, :ownShape, :placedAt, :xDisplacement, :yDisplacement
SourcesEditorial (v0.4); cf. Knuth, METAFONT; the sort/impression relation in :Font's own definition.
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8, renamed v0.5.10).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.7, after Haralambous).
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.
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).
placement anchor en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlacementAnchor
CLOSED vocabulary: :AnchoredInText, :AnchoredOnPage.
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.
raster shape en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RasterShape
A glyph shape defined as a bitmap, i.e. a matrix of number tuples.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4.
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).
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).
text recoverability en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TextRecoverability
The degree to which numeric text underlies a fixed visual 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).
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9, after Haralambous).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.8).
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
vector shape en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VectorShape
A glyph shape defined by Bézier contours (quadratic or cubic).
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).
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.
SourcesW3C, Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.1, 2006; editorial (v0.5.16, after Haralambous).
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).
anchor position en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/anchorPosition
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
applies grammar en · applique la grammaire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesGrammar
applies to page en · s'applique à la page fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesToPage
Characteristicsfunctional
applies to unit en · s'applique à l'unité fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesToUnit
Characteristicsfunctional
applies transform en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/appliesTransform
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
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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); Rezec 2009.
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
embodies typeface en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/embodiesTypeface
first myph en · premier myphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/firstMyph
The myph that stands at the sequence's origin.
Characteristicsfunctional
for axis en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/forAxis
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
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).
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.
has design axis en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasDesignAxis
has feature en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasFeature
A feature the font makes available under this language system.
has kerning pair en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasKerningPair
has language system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLanguageSystem
has lookup en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLookup
has setting en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSetting
has shape en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasShape
The shape is font-resident (a property of the class), never of a placement.
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
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
in coordinate system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inCoordinateSystem
in font en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inFont
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
instantiates grammar en · instancie la grammaire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/instantiatesGrammar
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).
kern first en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/kernFirst
Characteristicsfunctional
kern second en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/kernSecond
Characteristicsfunctional
listing of en · listage de fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/listingOf
The file the listing was decoded from: a mechanical transition.
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
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.
Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous).
on page en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/onPage
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesAndré & Borghi 1990 (Dynamic Fonts); Haralambous 2019 (point 6).
pattern variety en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/patternVariety
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
Characteristicsfunctional
placed position en · position de l'image fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/placedPosition
Characteristicsfunctional
placement anchor en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/placementAnchor
Characteristicsfunctional
previous myph en · myphe précédent fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/previousMyph
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.
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).
sets typeface en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsTypeface
setting for en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/settingFor
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.10).
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).
subset of en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/subsetOf
Characteristicsfunctional
threads to en · chaîné à fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/threadsTo
Characteristicsfunctional, inverse functional
typeset by en · composé par fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/typesetBy
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.14, after Haralambous).
typesets content en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/typesetsContent
uses patterns en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesPatterns
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12); OpenType vmtx.
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous); OpenType hmtx.
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
axis default en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisDefault
axis maximum en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisMax
axis minimum en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisMin
axis tag en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/axisTag
The four-character axis tag, e.g. 'wght', 'wdth', 'opsz', 'slnt'.
Characteristicsfunctional
feature tag en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/featureTag
Characteristicsfunctional
fixation rank en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/fixationRank
Characteristicsfunctional
has bitmap en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBitmap
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.
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.
has glyph ID en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasGlyphID
The font-internal identifier of the glyph.
Characteristicsfunctional
has myph colour en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMyphColor
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).
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
horizontal kern en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/horizontalKern
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
lookup table en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/lookupTable
'GSUB' or 'GPOS'.
Characteristicsfunctional
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, ...).
Characteristicsfunctional
pass count en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/passCount
Characteristicsfunctional
polynomial degree en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/polynomialDegree
2 (quadratic) or 3 (cubic).
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
resolved number (end of range) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/resolvedNumberTo
Characteristicsfunctional
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
retains layout tables en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/retainsLayoutTables
Characteristicsfunctional
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
sets font size (pt) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsFontSize
Characteristicsfunctional
sets leading (pt) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/setsLeading
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
setting value en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/settingValue
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
vertical kern en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/verticalKern
x en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/xCoord
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12, after Haralambous).
y en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/yCoord
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).
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.12).
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.
anchored on the page en · ancré sur la page fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnchoredOnPage
Positioned by page coordinates, independently of the text.
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).
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).
Cartesian coordinate system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CartesianCS
declarative markup en · balisage déclaratif fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeclarativeMarkup
Text parsed but not executed: XML, HTML.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
copy medium en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CopyMedium
CLOSED vocabulary: :HandwrittenCopy, :TypewrittenCopy.
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.
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
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'.
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).
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.
copy-edited from en · préparée à partir de fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/copyEditedFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
copy medium en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/copyMedium
Characteristicsfunctional
on copy en · sur la copie fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/onCopy
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
handwritten en · manuscrit fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandwrittenCopy
typewritten en · dactylographié fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TypewrittenCopy
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
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.
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.
composition method en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompositionMethod
CLOSED vocabulary: :HandComposition, :LinotypeComposition, :MonotypeComposition (phototypesetting left for later).
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.
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.
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).
SourcesGaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford 1972; editorial (v0.6.8).
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.
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.
galley proof en · placard fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GalleyProof
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6, after Haralambous).
matrix en · matrice fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Matrix
The mould, struck from a punch, from which sorts of one glyph are cast.
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).
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).
page proof en · épreuve en pages fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PageProof
plating en · galvanoplastie fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PlatingProcess
Electroforming the stamper from the sound master (:platedFrom).
printing (letterpress) en · impression typographique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PressPrintingProcess
Printing sheets from formes (:printedFrom).
pressing en · pressage fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PressingProcess
Pressing records from the stamper (:pressedFrom).
proof en · épreuve fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Proof
A pull taken from standing type for correction.
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.
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65-66.
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).
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.
SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 2-3; editorial (v0.6).
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.
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).
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.
cast from en · fondu dans fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/castFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
composed from en · composé d'après fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/composedFrom
composes copy en · compose la copie fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/composesCopy
composition method en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/compositionMethod
Characteristicsfunctional
contains sort en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/containsSort
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.
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
in matrix case en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inMatrixCase
made up from en · mis en pages d'après fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/madeUpFrom
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.
matrix for glyph en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/matrixForGlyph
Characteristicsfunctional
plated from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/platedFrom
pressed from en · pressé d'après fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pressedFrom
printed from en · imprimée d'après fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/printedFrom
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).
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.
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.
pulled from en · tirée de fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pulledFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
recorded from en · enregistré d'après fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/recordedFrom
ribbon for case en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ribbonForCase
The matrix case whose arrangement the ribbon was keyed against.
Characteristicsfunctional
sort of glyph en · type du glyphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/sortOfGlyph
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
side number en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/sideNumber
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
announced aloud ('Note:') en · annoncé fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AnnouncedAloud
hand composition en · composition manuelle fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandComposition
Linotype (line casting) en · Linotype fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LinotypeComposition
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).
omitted en · omis fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OmittedInNarration
preceded by a pause en · précédé d'une pause fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrecededByPause
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).
read at the end of its division en · lu en fin de division fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadAtDivisionEnd
read at the end of its paragraph en · lu en fin de paragraphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadAtParagraphEnd
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.
in a changed voice or register en · voix changée fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VoiceChange
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.
SourcesKettaneh 2024 (Michaux, Barthes, Twombly; eco-asemics); Schwenger 2019; Wiesner, Flotsam (2006) for the non-scriptural contrast.
audio paragraph en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AudioParagraph
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>).
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).
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2, after Haralambous); cf. Spinellis, Code Reading, 2003.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.2, after Haralambous).
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).
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').
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.
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.
correspondence type en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CorrespondenceType
CLOSED vocabulary; extend only by dated, warranted addition (the facet's changelog).
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.
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.
SourcesHaralambous 2019; Unicode 12.0 (Dingbats block; general category So).
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.
SourcesHaralambous 2019 (Arabic mid-verse fleuron; 16th-c. printers' flowers).
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).
general rule en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GeneralRule
given (pre-existing) rule en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GivenRule
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.3).
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.
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).
Individuals:Lang_Arabic, :Lang_English, :Lang_French, :Lang_German, :Lang_Greek, :Lang_Hebrew, :Lang_Japanese, :Lang_Mandarin, :Lang_MonotonicGreek, :Lang_Persian, :Lang_PolytonicGreek, :Lang_Russian, :Lang_Serbian, :Lang_Turkish
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12, after Haralambous); Hammarström et al., Glottolog (languoids).
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.
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.9); PROV-O 2013 (SoftwareAgent, wasInformedBy).
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).
musical segment en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MusicalSegment
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).
SourcesHaralambous, hara.tex, §Obfuscation (the obfuscation trie).
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.
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.
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.
particular (singular) rule en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ParticularRule
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).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 35; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4; PROV-O 2013.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 3–4; Drucker 2003; Carrión 1975; Knowles 1967.
recognition cue en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecognitionCue
CLOSED vocabulary: :CueVisualGrammar, :CueExplicitLabel.
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).
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.
SourcesM&D 2022, §5.2 (Nerius feature 1); e.g. RAE, Académie française, Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung, DIN, the Unicode Consortium / ISO.
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).
SourcesMeletis & Dürscheid 2022 (script vs. writing system); Haralambous 2026.
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).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 42; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Talking Books).
sounding chapter head en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingChapterHead
sounding division head en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingDivisionHead
full silence en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingFullSilence
phone en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingPhone
prosodic phrase en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingProsodicPhrase
silence en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingSilence
speech run en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingSpeechRun
sounding text block en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SoundingTextBlock
source grammar (deprecated: use :CodeGrammar) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SourceGrammar
source view (deprecated: use :CodeView) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SourceView
standardisation type en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/StandardisationType
How a writing system's orthography came to be (M&D 2022, §5.1).
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.
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.
SourcesHaralambous 2024, §3.1.1.2 (typographetics; the tau-graph), Figs. 3.1–3.2.
visual back cover en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualBackCover
visual back flap en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualBackFlap
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 41; editorial (v0.5.5).
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.
visual cover en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualCover
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.
visual dust jacket en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacket
visual dust jacket back en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketBack
visual dust jacket back flap en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketBackFlap
visual dust jacket front en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketFront
visual dust jacket front flap en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketFrontFlap
visual dust jacket spine en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualDustJacketSpine
Spreadsheet had 'VisualDusjJacketSpin' (typos).
visual front cover en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualFrontCover
visual front flap en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualFrontFlap
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.
horizontal space en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualHorizontalSpace
inner margin en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualInnerMargin
visual line en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualLine
Spreadsheet pointed at ':TextBlock'; corrected to :VisualTextBlock.
lower margin en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualLowerMargin
outer margin en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualOuterMargin
visual page en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualPage
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8).
printing zone en · zone d'empagement fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualPrintingZone
visual spine en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualSpine
Spreadsheet had 'VisualSpin' (typo).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
visual text block en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualTextBlock
upper margin en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualUpperMargin
vertical space en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualVerticalSpace
visual word en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/VisualWord
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.
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.
Individuals:WS_Arabic, :WS_English, :WS_EnglishBraille, :WS_EnglishPitman, :WS_French, :WS_German, :WS_Hebrew, :WS_Japanese, :WS_Mandarin, :WS_MonotonicGreek, :WS_Persian, :WS_PolytonicGreek, :WS_Russian, :WS_Serbian, :WS_Turkish
SourcesMeletis & Dürscheid 2022 (script vs. writing system); Haralambous 2026 (proposal 2).
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
collates unit en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/collatesUnit
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.
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.
comparison direction en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/comparisonDirection
corresponds from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/corrFrom
corresponds to en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/corrTo
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
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).
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>).
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).
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).
event of item en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/eventOfItem
generated during en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/generatedDuring
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).
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.
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.
SourcesRezec 2009; Haralambous & Dürst 2019, §2.1.
has collation weight en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCollationWeight
has correspondence type en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCorrespondenceType
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
has mapping type en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasMappingType
Characteristicsfunctional
has reader en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReader
has graphematic solution space en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSolutionSpace
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).
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.
Characteristicsfunctional
SourcesHaralambous 2026 (writing system is inherent to the grapheme); Meletis & Dürscheid 2022 (the grapheme is writing-system-relative).
instantiates basic shape en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/instantiatesBasicShape
The basic shape a concrete perceived graph is a token of.
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
Characteristicstransitive
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.
maps from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/mapsFrom
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.5.12, after Haralambous).
observes en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/observes
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).
orthographeme application en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographemeApplication
orthographeme of writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographemeOfSystem
orthographically licenses en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographicallyLicenses
Selects, from a unit's graphematic solution space, the spelling(s) an orthography deems correct.
orthography of writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/orthographyOfSystem
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.
SourcesHaralambous 2024, ch. 3 (the graph as etic unit); Gaze 2011 (reading, not writing, determines asemicity).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
regime of writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/regimeOfSystem
renders character en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/rendersCharacter
A glyph renders one character; a :LigatureGlyph renders several (see :LigatureDecomposition).
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.
standardisation type en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/standardisationType
Characteristicsfunctional
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).
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
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.
at collation level en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/atLevel
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).
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.
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.
socially binding en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isSociallyBinding
Nerius feature 2: binding not by law but by social obligation; deviance is socially sanctioned.
static en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/isStatic
Nerius feature 4: changeable only by official reform (a :Decree).
language tag en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/languageTag
A BCP 47 tag for the variety, when one exists (grc, el, el-polyton).
primary weight en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/primaryWeight
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).
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'.
secondary weight en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/secondaryWeight
tertiary weight en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/tertiaryWeight
via keyboard layout en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/viaKeyboardLayout
For :KeyboardMapped: the layout(s) under which the two graphemes share a physical key.
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).
algorithmic obfuscation en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AlgorithmicObfuscation
Recoverable by applying an algorithm to the visible text (grouping node).
artificial en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ArtificialOrthography
Codified without a basis in prior use (a newly created system, or a reform overriding usage).
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.
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.
by the visual grammar en · par la grammaire visuelle fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CueVisualGrammar
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).
Sourceshara.tex §Recoverable/Algorithmic (Silverberg; Damasio, La horde du contrevent).
encoding (character↔grapheme) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Encoding
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).
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.
final block (closes a paragraph begun earlier) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FinalBlock
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).
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.
SourcesHyland 2017; Urton 2003; on the Voynich, Kettaneh 2024, §5.2.
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.
SourcesKettaneh 2024; Gaze 2011; Schwenger 2019.
graphemes present en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GraphemesPresent
The graphs realize graphemes; the minimal-pair test runs. The ordinary case.
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.
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.
initial block (opens a paragraph that continues) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InitialBlock
kerning (glyph↔glyph) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Kerning
keyboard layout en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KeyboardApplication
The unit inventory a keyboard layout treats as keys.
keyboard-mapped en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/KeyboardMapped
Assigned to the same physical key by two keyboard layouts, though visually unrelated (see :viaKeyboardLayout).
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.
Arabic en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Arabic
English en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_English
French en · français fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_French
German en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_German
Greek en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Greek
Hebrew en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Hebrew
Japanese en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Japanese
Mandarin Chinese en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Mandarin
monotonic Greek en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_MonotonicGreek
Persian en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Persian
polytonic Greek en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_PolytonicGreek
Russian en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Russian
Serbian en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Serbian
Turkish en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Lang_Turkish
ligature decomposition (one glyph↔several characters) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LigatureDecomposition
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).
medial block (neither opens nor closes its paragraph, e.g. a full page inside one) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MedialBlock
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.
naturally developed en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NaturallyDeveloped
Codified from conventionalised prior usage (English, German).
no obfuscation (default) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/NoObfuscation
The default, unmarked state: the text is complete and directly legible; no concealment applied.
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.
SourcesWiesner, Flotsam (2006), and the wordless-picture-book tradition; Haralambous 2024, ch. 3 (the graph as the etic unit that a picture is not).
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).
Sourceshara.tex §Nondeterministic (Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close).
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.
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.
SourcesHaralambous 2024, §3.2.2; Cohn, Engelen & Schilperoord 2019 (grammar of emoji).
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.
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).
rendering (glyph↔character) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Rendering
Arab — Arabic en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Arab
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.
Cyrl — Cyrillic en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Cyrl
Grek — Greek en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Grek
Hani — Han en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hani
Hebr — Hebrew en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hebr
Hira — Hiragana en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Hira
Kana — Katakana en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Kana
Latn — Latin en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Script_Latn
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.
spelling alphabet en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpellingAlphabet
The named units used to spell aloud (radio alphabets, letter-naming).
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).
Sourceshara.tex §Symbolic Obfuscation (the Iranian example).
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).
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).
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.
Sourceshara.tex §Unrecoverable Obfuscation (Foer's darkening pages; Ollier's white voids).
unstandardised en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Unstandardised
No orthography; ontologically primary (a young or unregulated system).
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>.
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.
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.
writing system of the Arabic language en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Arabic
English writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_English
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.
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.
French writing system en · système d'écriture du français fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_French
German writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_German
writing system of the Hebrew language en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Hebrew
Japanese writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Japanese
Mandarin Chinese writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Mandarin
monotonic Greek writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_MonotonicGreek
Persian writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Persian
polytonic Greek writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_PolytonicGreek
Russian writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Russian
Serbian writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Serbian
Turkish writing system en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WS_Turkish
whole-paragraph block en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/WholeParagraphBlock
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1 and 3, and Glossary.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (explicit definition) and passim; ultimately Gibson 1979.
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.
SourcesRubery 2016, chs. 1–2; LIBRORUM.xlsx (sounding facet).
back flap en · rabat arrière fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BackFlap
back cover / back panel en · quatrième de couverture fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BackPanel
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Liu Guozhong 2016.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.13, after Haralambous); Rezec 2009; Neef 2015 (solution space).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 ('The Body of the Book') and Glossary.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Burkus-Chasson 2005.
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>.
text en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CarriedText
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
cassette tape en · cassette audio fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CassetteTape
SourcesRubery 2016, ch. 8 (Books on Tape).
clay en · argile fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Clay
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> ('clay-tablet' as support); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Schmandt-Besserat & Erard 2008.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Roberts & Skeat 1983.
compact disc en · disque compact fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CompactDisc
SourcesRubery 2016, ch. 9.
content figure en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContentFigure
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Urton 2003.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; Jager 2000.
decorative figure en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DecorativeFigure
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
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).
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).
SourcesEditorial (v0.6.8, after Haralambous).
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.
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.
front flap en · rabat avant fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FrontFlap
front cover / front panel en · première de couverture fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FrontPanel
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
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).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 and Glossary.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 3 and Glossary; Kirschenbaum 2008.
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).
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw; the G21C proceedings (Greek-numbered index); CMOS 17, §1.6.
palm leaf en · feuille de palmier fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PalmLeaf
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (pothī).
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).
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 18; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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).
paper color en · couleur de papier fr · Papierfarbe de · χρῶμα χαρτιοῦ el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperColor
paper type en · type de papier fr · Papiertyp de · τύπος χαρτιοῦ el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperType
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2 and Glossary.
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.
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-classes:AccordionBook, :AudioCarrier, :BlankBook, :CodexBook, :EphemeralBook, :Khipu, :MuteBookObject, :PaperBook, :Polyptych, :Pothi, :Scroll, :Tablet, :TunnelBook, :UnboundBook
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 1; Kilgour 1998 (book as portable storehouse of arranged signs); Vogler 2000 (portability as criterial).
physical book body en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalBookBody
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>>.
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).
dust jacket en · jaquette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PhysicalDustJacket
Sourceslibrorum.nw; Genette 1997, p. 27; CMOS 17, §1.71.
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-leaf); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5.
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.
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.
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-sheet); Borsuk 2018, ch. 1, fig. 3.
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).
SourcesGaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford 1972 (intaglio plates printed apart); editorial (v0.6.8).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Roberts & Skeat 1983.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; Avrin 1991.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
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'.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5 ('rectos are odd-numbered').
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.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
screen en · écran fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Screen
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 36.
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'.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
silk en · soie fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Silk
Luxury Chinese writing support, 3rd–5th c. CE especially.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Tsien 2004.
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.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (Book of Kells).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
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).
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').
tactile line en · ligne tactile fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactileLine
tactile page en · page tactile fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TactilePage
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).
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65–66.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 and Glossary; Hyde 2015.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Saporta; Johnson; Schneeman; Blake's leaves as sold).
vellum en · vélin fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Vellum
Highest-quality parchment, typically of calfskin.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Glossary, s.v. 'Vellum'.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary; CMOS 17, §1.5 ('versos are even-numbered').
wax en · cire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Wax
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 (pugillares).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1 and Glossary.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1.
admits shape en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admitsShape
Characteristicsfunctional
admitted for en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedFor
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
carries en · porte fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/carries
Sourceslibrorum.nw <<physical-book>> (physical-book ***carries forms).
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.
folded from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/foldedFrom
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)).
has binding en · a pour reliure fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasBinding
has folding format en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasFoldingFormat
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1 and 3; Ciccarese & Peroni 2014 (Collections Ontology).
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).
has number entry en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasNumberEntry
NOT functional and NOT required: zero, one, or several entries per page.
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
has type en · est de type fr · ist vom Typ de · εἶναι τύπου el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperType
has previous page en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPreviousPage
has recto en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasRectoPage
Characteristicsfunctional
has thickness en · a comme épaisseur fr · hat die Dicke de · ἔχει πᾶχος el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasThickness
has transparency value en · a la valeur de transparence fr · hat den Durchsichtigkeitswert de · ἔχει διαφάνεια el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasTransparency
has verso en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasVersoPage
Characteristicsfunctional
in numbering en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inNumbering
Characteristicsfunctional
opening recto (right) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/openingRecto
Characteristicsfunctional
opening verso (left) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/openingVerso
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 37; editorial (v0.5.5).
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.
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').
admitted from en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedFrom
Characteristicsfunctional
admitted until en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/admittedUntil
Characteristicsfunctional
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.
has name en · a le nom fr · hat den Namen de · ἔχει τὸ ὄνομα χρώματος el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperColorName
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
has weight (grammage) en · a comme grammage fr · hat ein Gewicht von de · εἶναι βάρους el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPaperWeight
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
has visible folio en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasVisibleFolio
Whether the page number appears on the page (false = blind folio).
leaves per sheet en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/leavesPerSheet
Characteristicsfunctional
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
pages per sheet en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pagesPerSheet
Characteristicsfunctional
amendability en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Amendability
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2 (wax erasure; papyrus emendation vs. hardened clay; manuscripts outliving Gutenberg partly for this — Chartier).
annotatability en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Annotatability
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 (marginalia and manicules as effects of codex form).
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.
SourcesRubery 2016, pp. 65–66 (the 33⅓ vinylite disc as machine-read groove).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 1.
bulky paper en · papier bouffant fr · Werkdruckpapier de · χαρτὶ βιβλίου el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BulkyPaper
duodecimo (12mo) en · in-12 fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DuodecimoFormat
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 17 (in-12 among the classic trade formats).
folio en · in-folio fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FolioFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Genette 1997, p. 17.
glossy coated paper en · papier couché brillant fr · Glanzgestrichenes Papier de · χαρτὶ γυαλιστερὸ μὲ ἐπίστρωση el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GlossyCoatedPaper
matte coated paper en · papier couché mat fr · Mattgestrichenes Papier de · χαρτὶ μὰτ μὲ ἐπίστρωση el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MatteCoatedPaper
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1–2; Genette 1997, p. 17.
octodecimo (18mo) en · in-18 fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OctodecimoFormat
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 17.
offset paper en · papier offset fr · Offsetpapier de · χαρτὶ ὄφφσετ el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OffsetPaper
one-handed use en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OneHandedUse
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4 (pugillares; curled paperback; Kindle Oasis grip).
portability en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Portability
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 1 (criterial for Kilgour and Vogler).
quarto en · in-quarto fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/QuartoFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1; Genette 1997, p. 17.
random access en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RandomAccess
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4; Stallybrass 2001 (the codex = scrolling PLUS leaping).
recycled paper en · papier recyclé fr · Recyclingpapier de · ἀνακυκλωμένο χαρτί el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/RecycledPaper
refoldability en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Refoldability
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 ('The Book as Recombinant Structure').
satin paper en · papier satin fr · Satinpapier de · χαρτὶ σατινέ el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SatinPaper
sequential access en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SequentialAccess
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 4; Stallybrass 2001.
sextodecimo (16mo) en · in-16 fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SextodecimoFormat
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 1, fig. 3; Genette 1997, p. 17.
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').
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; librorum.nw (format -> DIN, ISO).
two-sided inscription en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/TwoSidedInscription
SourcesBorsuk 2018, chs. 1, 3 (papyrus one-sided; xylographic rubbing forcing the butterfly binding).
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).
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.
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 8 (H. Smith), pp. 95-108; Genette 1997, pp. 123-124; CMOS 17.
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).
authenticity en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Authenticity
name of the author en · nom (ou pseudonyme) de l'auteur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorNameElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 37.
likeness of the author en · portrait de l'auteur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorPortrait
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
title of the author en · titre de l'auteur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorTitleElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
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.
bar code (EAN) en · code-barres fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BarcodeElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4 (1986; conventionalized 'like a colophon'); CMOS 17, §1.74.
biographical and/or bibliographical notice en · notice biographique et/ou bibliographique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/BiographicalNotice
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 25; CMOS 17, §§1.66, 1.73.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3; Dworkin 2013.
blurb / press excerpts en · extraits de presse fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Blurb
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 25; CMOS 17, §1.74 (signed blurb, quotations).
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).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2 and Glossary.
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.
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.
names of translator(s), preface-writer(s), person(s) responsible en · traducteurs, préfaciers, responsables fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ContributorNamesElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
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).
specific illustration en · illustration spécifique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoverIllustration
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24; credit for the cover art on the back flap, CMOS 17, §1.73.
authorial or allographic phrase en · formule auctoriale ou allographe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoverPhrase
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 28–29 (on the band).
date en · date fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DateElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 110–131, 32, 35.
mention of deluxe editions en · mention de tirages de luxe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeluxeEditionMention
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 (Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade; Cai Guo-Qiang's Danger Book; Xu Bing's Tobacco Book).
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 144–153.
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 344; CMOS 17, §§1.75–1.76.
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).
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.
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.
flyleaf en · page de garde fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FlyleafPage
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32 (gardes 1 and 2, blank).
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32; CMOS 17, §1.18; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2.
genre indication en · indication générique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/GenreIndication
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25 (front and back cover; Queneau's asterisk games).
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.
half title en · faux-titre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HalfTitleElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 32; CMOS 17, §1.17; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2; Smith 2000.
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.
handwritten inscription en · dédicace manuscrite fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/HandwrittenInscription
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 26, 32; CMOS 17, §1.32; Borsuk 2018, ch. 4; Striphas 2009.
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.
SourcesBook Parts (2019), ch. 5 (Rogers), pp. 51-64.
inscription (exemplar dedication) en · dédicace d'exemplaire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InscriptionElement
Item-level personalization (see :ItemPersonalization below).
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 32, 35.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3 ('The Book as Mute Object'); Stewart 2011 (Paulsrud; Kokin; Roth's Literaturwurst; Novo; Spector).
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.
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).
onymity regime en · régime onymique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OnymityRegime
Individuals:AIGhostwriting, :Anonymity, :Apocrypha, :AuthorSupposition, :ConsentedApocrypha, :ConvenienceAnonymity, :DeFactoAnonymity, :FalseAnonymity, :Ghostwriting, :Onymity, :Plagiarism, :Pseudonymity
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 39.
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).
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
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 25, 27, 32.
paid advertisement en · publicité payante fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaidAdvertisement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 26.
fixed-layout paper codex en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PaperCodexFixed
Scoping class for the pagination constraints: the ordinary printed book.
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.
SourcesGenette 1997; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (devices that helped printers and binders before devices that helped readers).
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).
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).
personal binding en · reliure personnelle fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PersonalBinding
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 104–110, 25.
postface en · postface fr
also: afterword; postscript; après-propos; après-dire; post-scriptum
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Postface
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 161.
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 161; CMOS 17, §§1.40–1.41.
preface stance en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrefaceStance
price en · prix de vente fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PriceElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25.
number of printings or editions en · numéro de tirage ou édition fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrintRunElement
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24–25; CMOS 17 impression line, §1.28.
mention of a literary prize (won — or not won) en · mention de prix littéraire fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PrizeMention
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 28 and fn. 17.
address of the publisher en · adresse de l'éditeur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PublisherAddressElement
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24; CMOS 17, §1.20.
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
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 26; Borsuk 2018, ch. 2 (printer's devices as proto-logos).
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 4 (Editions at Play measuring length in read time).
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.
SourcesGenette 1997 (the author's/publisher's reading instructions).
reading stratum en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReadingStratum
A layer of first-read priority attached to a content unit.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2.
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 316; CMOS 17, §§1.12–1.16.
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).
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 22, 24; CMOS 17, §1.18.
series statement of principles en · manifeste de collection fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SeriesManifesto
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 25, 27.
facsimile of the author's signature en · fac-similé de la signature fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SignatureFacsimile
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 24.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, Preface and ch. 4 (Voyager Expanded Books' dog-ear; Kindle 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.
SourcesGenette 1997; Cortázar, Rayuela (1963, two reading orders).
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).
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 34.
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).
SourcesGenette 1997, pp. 24, 55–79.
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
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.
Characteristicstransitive
Object propertyConventions
expresses reading order en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/expressesReadingOrder
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
has authenticity en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasAuthenticity
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 181.
Object propertyConventions
has catchword en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCatchword
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
has line en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasLine
Bridge property physical page → visual line, used by the emptiness and widow shapes.
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
has onymity regime en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOnymityRegime
Object propertyConventions
has ordering regime en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasOrderingRegime
The pagination SHACL shapes below apply only where the value is :FixedTotalOrder.
Characteristicsfunctional
Object propertyConventions
has page en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPage
Object propertyConventions
has stance en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPrefaceStance
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 185.
Object propertyConventions
has reading stratum en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasReadingStratum
Object propertyConventions
has sender role en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasSenderRole
Object propertyConventions
inscribed in item en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/inscribedInItem
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
path sequence en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/pathSequence
The ordered content-unit sequence of a suggested path (an rdf:Seq of :Division).
Object propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
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 propertyConventions
suggests reading path en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/suggestsReadingPath
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
fragment index en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/fragmentIndex
has callout (indicator) en · avec appel fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasCallout
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 321.
text content en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/textContent
TOC position (front/back) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/tocPosition
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 316 (devant en EN/DE, derrière en FR).
actorial en · actoriale fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ActorialSender
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.
anonymity en · anonymat fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Anonymity
apocrypha en · apocryphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Apocrypha
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
apocryphal en · apocryphe fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Apocryphal
assumptive en · assomptive fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AssumptiveStance
authentic en · authentique fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Authentic
imagining the author en · supposition d'auteur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorSupposition
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
authorial (autographic) en · auctoriale (autographe) fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/AuthorialSender
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).
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
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).
apocrypha with permission en · apocryphe consenti fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConsentedApocrypha
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
anonymity of convenience en · anonymat de convenance fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ConvenienceAnonymity
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
core (first read) en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/CoreFirstRead
de facto anonymity en · anonymat de fait fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DeFactoAnonymity
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
delayed en · tardive fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DelayedAppearance
disavowing en · dénégative fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/DisavowingStance
at the end of chapter en · fin de chapitre fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EndOfChapterNote
at the end of volume en · fin de volume fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/EndOfVolumeNote
false (cryptic) anonymity en · faux anonymat (cryptique) fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/FalseAnonymity
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 42.
fictive en · fictive fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Fictive
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.
plagiarism with permission (ghostwriting) en · plagiat consenti fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Ghostwriting
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
between the lines en · entre les lignes fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/InterlinearNote
later en · ultérieure fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/LaterAppearance
in the margins (side note) en · en manchette fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/MarginNote
onymity en · onymat fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Onymity
optional on first read en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/OptionalFirstRead
Deferrable material: small-print passages, boxed asides, starred/advanced sections, appendices.
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).
plagiarism en · plagiat fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Plagiarism
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47.
posthumous en · posthume fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/PosthumousAppearance
production agent (binder, collator, pressman) en · agent de fabrication fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ProducerAddressee
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 2; Stallybrass 2001.
pseudonymity en · pseudonymat fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Pseudonymity
reader en · lecteur fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReaderAddressee
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').
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3.
reference only en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/ReferenceStratum
Not part of any read-through: tables, glossaries, indexes consulted on demand.
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.
in a special volume en · volume spécial fr
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/SpecialVolumeNote
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.
SourcesRegulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), Art. 50 (transparency obligations); editorial (v0.3).
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.
SourcesBreton & Soupault, Les Champs magnétiques (1919); Breton, Manifeste du surréalisme (1924); Dalí (paranoiac-critical method); editorial (v0.3).
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.
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.3), absorbing the publisher memorandum's Part I; cf. :OCRProcess (facet 3).
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.
SourcesEditorial (v0.3); PROV-O 2013 (SoftwareAgent).
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.
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.
Object propertyGenerated 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.
Object propertyGenerated book
has prompt en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasPrompt
Object propertyGenerated 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 propertyGenerated 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 propertyGenerated book
uses model en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/usesModel
Object propertyGenerated 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 propertyGenerated 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.
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.
SourcesGenette 1997, p. 47; editorial (v0.3).
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.
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.
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.
SourcesBorsuk 2018, ch. 3; editorial (v0.3), absorbing the memorandum's 'personalized reading experience'.
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).
book en · livre fr · Buch de · βιβλίο el
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/Book
The linguistic contents of a book together with its peritext.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 16; Genette 1997 (livre = texte + paratexte).
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.
SourcesLIBRORUM.xlsx row 52.
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 propertyOntology metadata
has ORCID identifier en
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/hasORCIDidentifier
Annotation propertyOntology 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).
IndividualOntology metadata
https://www.librorum.fr/ontology/yannis