Synergetics Dictionary

E. J. Applewhite's Synergetics Dictionary — a card-based concordance of R. Buckminster Fuller's vocabulary, compiling his definitions, usages, and cross-references for synergetics terms drawn from across his published works. This manifest indexes the ~20,900-card corpus; the data stays in the repo root (Wiki.js-served), not copied into the wiki.

Scope

What it is: the index-card dictionary Applewhite assembled from Fuller's writings — each card carries a term, a scanned card image, and the OCR'd definition/usage text (often quoting Fuller directly, marked "RBF DEFINITIONS"), plus cross-references ("See Module: …").
Coverage: alphabetical, A–Z, ~20,881 numbered cards (Card C#####), plus front matter (how-to-use, preamble, contents-of-the-set, annotated bibliographies, sources-cited lists).
Not in scope here: per-card synthesis. Individual terms are looked up against the dataset, not compiled into wiki articles.

Storage Locations

Two variants live in the repo root (served by Wiki.js); neither is copied into the wiki:

Path	Contents	Size
`synergetics_dictionary/`	text + ~21,200 card images	~2.9 GB
`synergetics-dictionary/`	text-only variant (no images)	~85 MB
`synergetics_dictionary.md`, `synergetics-dictionary.md` (root)	top-level descriptor pages	small

The text-only variant is the practical one for search; the image variant preserves the original card scans.

Schema

Inferred card structure (per letter file A.md … Z.md):

## Card C#####
![Figure N: C#####](/synergetics_dictionary/images/cards/<letter>/C#####.jpg)
    <Term>
    RBF DEFINITIONS                 # optional — Fuller's own words
    "<quoted definition / usage>"
    See Module: <cross-reference>   # optional

Key: C##### card id (zero-padded, sequential within the alphabetical run).
Fields: term, card image path, definition/usage text, source citations, cross-references.
schema_status: inferred — derived from sampling, not a declared schema.

Samples And Profiles

Letter files are the natural samples — e.g. synergetics_dictionary/B.md (B Quanta Module, "Babbling", etc.).
Front matter: How-to-Use-the-Synergetics-Dictionary.md, Preamble-with-a-Few-Explanations.md, Contents-of-the-Set.md, Sources-Cited-List-of-Titles.md.
No profile generated yet (/wiki:dataset profile can add one).

Query Recipes

Look up a term: grep the relevant letter file, e.g. grep -A6 -i "tensegrity" synergetics-dictionary/T.md.
Find a card by id: grep -rl "Card C01053" synergetics_dictionary/.
List all cards for a letter: grep -c "^## Card" synergetics_dictionary/B.md.
Prefer the text-only synergetics-dictionary/ variant for searching; use the image variant when the original scan is needed.

Saved, validated recipes now live in queries/card-lookup-recipes.md (term lookup, card-by-ID, per-letter counts, Fuller's-own-definitions filter, cross-reference following). Measured: 20,524 card headings; 8,767 cards carry RBF DEFINITIONS.