--- title: "Scholaris glossary" description: "The words Scholaris uses, from folio and anchor to pliego, imprenta, SPDF or watcher, with what they mean here and, where it helps, in the tradition of the book." url: https://scholaris.joseluissaorin.com/en/knowledge/glossary markdown: https://scholaris.joseluissaorin.com/en/knowledge/glossary.md lang: en alternate_es: https://scholaris.joseluissaorin.com/saber/glosario.md updated: 2026-10-06 author: José Luis Saorín Ferrer (https://joseluissaorin.com) --- # Scholaris glossary > The words Scholaris uses, from folio and anchor to pliego, imprenta, SPDF or watcher, with what they mean here and, where it helps, in the tradition of the book. ## The words Anchor (ancla) : The exact place of a passage inside its document: the physical page and the printed folio, the second of a recording, the slide, the sheet and rows of a table, or the section and paragraph of a web page with its access date. Every citation is written from an anchor. Autocite (autocita) : The function that reads your draft, finds a passage in your library for each claim and proposes the citation with its page; you accept or discard. Notebook (cuaderno) : Markdown notes with cards of verified passages that can be checked again against the library. Vector space (espacio vectorial) : The model, version and dimensions used to compute some vectors, e.g. "gemini-embedding-2@1536". An .spdf can carry several. Record (ficha) : A document's metadata (authors, title, year, edition, publisher, DOI, ISBN…), each field with its provenance. Folio : In early books, each numbered leaf, with its recto (r) and verso (v): "fol. 23v". In Scholaris, by extension, the page number printed on paper, as opposed to the page's position in the file. Foliation (foliación) : How a book is numbered: by pages or leaves, in roman and arabic numerals, with jumps and unnumbered plates. Scholaris rebuilds it page by page. Fragment (fragmento) : The passage that is searched and cited: a stretch of text with its start and end anchors. Modernised spelling (grafía modernizada) : A copy of the text with spelling brought up to date ("dixo" → "dijo"), stored separately and used only for searching. The cited text always keeps its original spelling. Hash (huella) : The SHA-256 digest of a file; two files with the same hash are the same file. Imprenta (the press) : Scholaris's converter: it recognises each file's type and prepares it for reading (pages as images, text, audio, frames). It works in the browser and, for what the browser cannot do, in a server container. Jev : TypeSafe's model that acts as judge: it reranks results, decides whether a passage supports a claim and chooses between page-number candidates. Reader (lector) : The model that reads pages as images and returns their faithful text, notes, header and footer, and the folio it sees printed. Manicule (manícula) : The little hand with an outstretched finger that early readers drew in margins to point at a passage. It is Scholaris's emblem. Pliego : In printing, the large sheet that, folded, makes a gathering of the book. In Scholaris, the group of four pages sent at once to the reader. Provenance (procedencia) : Where each piece of data comes from: which source gave the record, which reader read the page, how confidently and who corrected it. Catchword (reclamo) : In early books, the word printed at the foot of a page that repeats the first word of the next. Scholaris keeps it out of the passage text. SPDF : Scholaris's open format for a document already read: a gzip-compressed SQLite database with text, anchors, figures, vectors and provenance. Current version: 4.1. .scholaris package : A whole library in a ZIP: one .spdf per document, a manifest and a rights notice. Stretch (tramo) : In audio and video, the citable unit: 30 to 60 seconds of transcript ending at a sentence boundary. Unit (unidad) : What is cited as a whole: a page, a stretch of audio, a slide, a chunk of a spreadsheet. Watcher (vigilante) : A saved search that repeats itself and tells you when what it finds changes.