BUCKYVERSE

Wiki Configuration

Scope

This wiki covers R. Buckminster Fuller's life, work, and legacy as represented in
the BUCKYVERSE collection, including:

Conventions

Ingesting a complete book (ingest-by-reference)

This repo is a Wiki.js site: book directories and their ebook formats
(.epub/.pdf/.mobi/scans) live in the repo root and are served from
there. Books are therefore ingested by reference, not by copy — structurally
different from a single article or YouTube transcript:

  1. Keep the book in the repo root. Do not copy book content into raw/.
  2. Raw pointer: create raw/repos/<slug>.md (type: repos) whose
    source: points at the root book dir (../../../<book_dir>/), lists the key
    files, and is tagged ingest-by-reference. It is a manifest/pointer, not a
    copy.
  3. Ownership layer (if owned): add an inventory/items/ accession record
    (BV-ID, ISBN, publisher, held/condition) and, if cataloged, a catalog record.
    Articles and videos rarely need this.
  4. Compiled article: write wiki/topics/<slug>.md as an overview
    (abstract → structure → core ideas → significance → See Also → Sources). Its
    sources: points at the raw pointer, not the root dir.
  5. Authorship tag: buckminster-fuller (by Fuller) /
    about-buckminster-fuller (biographies, studies, anthologies) /
    fuller-adjacent (third-party works merely related). Set volatility: cold
    and scale confidence to how much real text the source actually contains.
  6. Large books: skim the index + representative chapters; do not flatten the
    whole text into the article.

By contrast, an article is copied in full into raw/articles/<date>-slug.md
and a YouTube video transcript into raw/notes/ — single-file, read whole,
no ownership layer.