Dicera (DIgital Comic book ERA vocabulary)

Ontology designed to support the addition of metadata to (digital) comics.

  • Pieter Heyvaert

Classes

StoryArc

StoryArc

This class represents a story arc entity.

GenreMatch

GenreMatch

This class is used to connect a genre to the matches property.

ContentRating

ContentRating

This class represents a content rating entity.

Issue

Issue

This class is used to denote the issue number of comic and to connect it to a story arc.

Cover

Cover

This class represents the cover (of a comic book) entity.

Balloon

Balloon

This class represents a speech balloon in a comic.

Caption

Caption

This class represents a caption in a comic.

Effect

Effect

This class represents an effect (i.e. 'Zzzz', 'Boem') in a comic.

Text

Text

This class represents the text that is visually presented to the reader.

Audio

Audio

This class represents audio that can be played to the reader i.e. using Javascript.

Panel

Panel

This class represents a panel on the page of a comic.

Page

Page

This class represents the page of a comic.

Layer

Layer

This class represents the layer of panel, each layer can hold multiple characters, objects etc.

Properties

has

has

Generic property to connect one entity to another.

 
 

talksAbout

talksAbout

This property denotes whether a comic concept talks about something/someone.

 
 

withEmotion

withEmotion

This property tells what emotion is expressed.

 
 

usesSystem

usesSystem

This property tells what content rating system a certain content rating entity uses.

 ContentRating 
 

hasRating

hasRating

This property tells what rating a certain content rating has for the comic.

 ContentRating 
 

isSaidThrough

isSaidThrough

This property tells through which element (caption, balloon) the text inside a Text class is being said.

 Text 
 

hasReadingOrder

hasReadingOrder

The order in which an object has to be read.

 
 

matches

matches

This property tells how many percent of the genre actually matches with the story of the comic.

 GenreMatch 
 

number

number

This property tells what the issue number is of the issue.

 Issue 
 integer 

says

says

This property denotes the acutal text that is being is said by a Text class.

 Text