typoo is short for "TYPOgraphy as Ontology" and a model to describe microtypography, i.e. the design and usage of fonts in printed matter. typoo is formalized in the "Web Ontology Language" OWL and available in its serializations RDF/XML and Turtle. At the moment (April 2020), typoo consists of 53 classes, 18 object properties and one data property. The conceptions and definitions are a constant "work-in-progress" (please share your own ideas!).
The focus of the typoo lies on material-visual aspects of typefaces from Western Europe from around 1900. The ontology was first developed and successfully implemented within the context of a digital scholarly edition (to be published, more info) and is therefore primarily tailored to its needs. In this repository, however, the ontology is to be further generalized in order to make it more widely applicable and/or to allow a mapping to similar resources.
If you have questions or want share your opinion just open a GitHub issue or contact me via email.
Author: Frederike Neuber (neuber.frederike@gmail.com)
Context of Creation: StGD emerged within the author’s PhD at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz and the University of Cologne (finished 2019, published 2020). It was supported by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network DiXiT (funded 2013–2017 under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission’s 7th Framework).
License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
Citation Recommendation: Neuber, Frederike. "typoo: an ontology to describe microtypography." Date Published 28.4.2020. Date Accessed: ####, https://github.com/FrederikeNeuber/typoo, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6395670.
