Buckyverse Wiki Schema

Entity Types (article categories)

Entities are wiki articles, not inventory records. Each entity type maps to a category: value in article frontmatter.

Category	Description	Example
`person`	A human being — living or dead, real or mythological	R. Buckminster Fuller, Shoji Sadao, Plato
`organization`	A group, institution, company, or collective	Buckminster Fuller Institute, Black Mountain College
`work`	A book, article, film, patent, or creative artifact	Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Dymaxion Map
`place`	A physical location, building, or geographic feature	Southern Illinois University, Montreal Biosphere
`event`	A time-bounded occurrence, exhibition, or milestone	World Game, Drop City
`concept`	An idea, principle, or technical term	Synergy, Tensegrity, Ephemeralization
`topic`	General article that doesn't fit a specific entity type	Fuller FAQ, Student Publication Index

person vs. organization: If the subject is a human, use person. If it's a group (even if named after a person), use organization.
work vs. topic: If the subject is a specific, titled creative output (book, film, patent, lecture series), use work. If it's a general overview or registry page, keep topic.
place vs. organization: If the subject is primarily a location (a building, campus, city), use place. If it's primarily an institution that happens to have a location, use organization.
event vs. topic: If the subject is time-bounded (an exhibition, conference, happening), use event. If it's an ongoing activity or general concept, use topic or concept.

Entity-type tags (entity-person, entity-organization) remain as tags for backward compatibility and filtering, alongside the category: field.

Used as tags on person articles to describe their relationship to Fuller:

Tag	Meaning
`relationship-family`	Blood relative or spouse
`relationship-collaborator`	Worked directly with Fuller
`relationship-chronicler`	Wrote about Fuller
`relationship-contemporary`	Lived in same era, crossed paths
`relationship-forebear`	Historical predecessor whose work influenced Fuller
`relationship-influence-on-fuller`	Direct intellectual influence
`relationship-influenced-by-fuller`	Carried Fuller's ideas forward
`relationship-co-contributor`	Contributed to same publication/project

Bucket	Content
`topics`	General topic articles, places, events
`concepts`	Synergetics concepts, design-science principles, mathematical ideas
`references`	Registry pages, bibliographies, indexes, reading lists
`theses`	Thesis articles (argued positions with evidence)
`people`	Person articles (entity-person)
`organizations`	Organization articles (entity-organization)
`works`	Books, articles, films, patents, lecture series

Bucket	Content
`articles`	Ingested web articles, dated by ingest
`papers`	Academic papers, formal documents
`notes`	YouTube transcripts, conversation notes, field notes
`data`	Structured data, CSVs, JSON
`repos`	Pointers to in-repo book projects (ingest-by-reference)

Reserved for trackable-state records only: physical holdings (items), ingest candidates, open questions. NOT for entities — those are articles.