This project of the
Symmetrion aims
at a collection of bibliographic items which deal with one or more
issues of, or are in some way related to symmetry.
There are ten thousands of publications in which symmetry appears as an
aspect. There is no other catalogue whose intention is to collect and
thematically record them, but the
Symmetrotheca.
Many publications with certain
interest in particular aspects of symmetry appear in diverse
disciplinary journals, whose scope of interest is not restricted to
symmetry. Thus there is difficult to identify these papers to refer in
a
symmetrological investigation.
The Symmetrotheca is the library of the Symmetrion. The only library
specialised in items on symmetry. The
Symmetrotheca
has a wide collection
of outprints of articles on topics treating symmetry in different
disciplines and the arts, thanks to the voluntary contribution of the
authors of these papers.
One of the goals of this
project is to record and present as much as possible symmetry related
publications
in a well arranged form.
Another goal of the project is to establish a virtual library. The
virtual library catalogues not only those publications, which are
physically deposited in the Symmetrotheca. At its developed stage the
Virtual Library of the
Symmetrotheca will be an online catalogue collecting
bibliographic items
concerning symmetry.
The
Symmetrion is an international
institute.
Join our team, join the symmetrists’ community, and become our
volunteer
fellow! Contribute with submitting bibliographic items to the completion
of the
Virtual Library of the
Symmetrotheca!
This project is executed by the collective efforts of the members of
the
International Symmetry Association
and the visitors of this site of the Symmetrion, i.e., by the
assistance of its volunteer fellows. Anybody can
voluntarily
join the project by proposing bibliographic items
to add to the catalogue. Please,
select those items, which may be of interest for those who study, apply,
etc. a general or at least a particular aspect of symmetry or its
related phenomena and concepts.
The
Bibliographic Project of the Symmetrion welcomes your
proposals to include bibliographic items like
books, catalogues, book
chapters, journal articles, conference papers,
working papers, reports, patent descriptions,
published curricula, lecture notes, CD, DVD,
video, film or
computer
program, and other
educational
aids in the (coming soon) online catalogue of the Symmetrotheca.
There
are also welcome your ideas concerning the arrangement of the
bibliographic items. Establishing the structure of classifying the
records, and the elaboration of a scheme of keywords, i.e., the
Symmetry
Classification Scheme (
SCS), is the task of the
Thesaurus project of the Symmetrion.
The execution of the project will be continuous.
A Bibliographic Item
Submission Form
will be uploaded to this site soon, partly to make your work easier,
partly to ensure the semi-automatic inclusion of the items in the
Symmetrotheca's Virtual Library catalogue.
The Symmetrion keeps the right to moderate the submitted contributions.
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*The initial stage of this project was supported
by the grant No. 25993 of the Hungarian Scientific Research
Fund (OTKA).