Subclass of:

• crmtex:TX5 Text Recognition
• crmdig:D7 Digital Machine Event
• aaao:ZE13 Speech Act

Scope note:

An instance of digital reading is a digital processing event guided by a set of instructions or parameters which in turn returns a digital output. The digital output will consist in a set of propositions related to the 'read' input which might include things like classifications, identifications, transformations, comparisons and so on. In the context of semantic data processes, such output might consist in semantically encoded knowledge graph statements, the collection of which may be referred to as an I4 Propositional Set, which can be regarded as the 'conclusion' of the digital reading. As such, Digital reading may be regarded as a computational process guided by a parametrized hypothesis resulting in a new propositional dataset for scientific consideration. The propositional information generated by the digital reading process should be considered as provisional knowledge posited under a hypothesis. Typically propositions generated by the digital reading may become the subject of further scholarly research.

Instances of this class come to be when a process is initiated to generate new information and finish upon completion of that process or if the process is interrupted and fails to complete.

Examples:

• HTR extraction of text on page 1r of manuscript 20-Ms-215 (E22), written by Gottfried Semper (E21), performed with Transkribus (D14), 23 February 2018 (https://semper-edition.ch/ workspace/facsimile/semper/ stil_draft_whole_vol1_ prolegomena/pages/20_Ms_215_1. xml/with/transcript).
• The process of calculating a numerical score that captures the visual similarity status (ZE14) holding between sets of images (E36) in the holdings of the Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek (E74) and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (E74) (https://bso.swissartresearch.net/resource/page:exploreVisualSimilarities)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE17(x) ⇒ TX5(x)
• ZE17(x) ⇒ D7(x)
• ZE17(x) ⇒ ZE13(x)