The
Thesaurus
Project of the Symmetrion aims
at establishing a
Web of terms
related to symmetry. Clustering the terms included in this web, and
building a net of their connections to each other facilitates to
classify and arrange well the vast links to websites (cf. the
Links to websites featuring symmetry
project).
The
Thesaurus Project aims
also
at elaborating the
Symmetry
Classification Scheme (
SCS), a lattice scheme to classify
and identify concepts, phenomena, keywords, subjects of studies, and
their sub-fields in symmetrology to be used in the
Bibliographic
project.
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. The
Symmetrion is an international
institute.
Join our team, join the symmetrists’ community, and become our
volunteer
fellow! Contribute to the permanent extension of the Thesaurus
project. The
Thesaurus project
of the Symmetrion welcomes your contribution to accomplish one of the
below tasks. The execution of the project will
be continuous.
(1)
Web of terms related to symmetry
This project collects
terms
(which denote phenomena, properties, fields and sub-fields of studies,
etc. related to
symmetry) and draws the
relations among them. The
respective terms will form the nodes of a web, while the relations
between the individual terms will be marked by lines connecting
them. Adding a new term (node) to the web demands also to
determine which other terms is it related to. The sets of most related
terms will form clusters. These clusters will build the thesaurus of
the symmetry related terms. This thesaurus will serve as a basis of the
classification of the
links to other
websites featuring symmetry.
Note, a webpage can be qualified, according to its content, under
several categories. Note also, that several aspects of classification
can be applied parallel. The terms within the thesaurus can be arranged
in different categories according to the respective aspects.
For example, the symmetry related terms can be classified according to
disciplines
(e.g., symmetry breaking in particle physics, invariance under
translation in crystallography, symmetry in geometry, biological
morphology, linguistics,
ethnography, aesthetics, philosophy,
etc. …),
purposes (like a symmetry related event, research,
art, education,
technological
application, design, entertainment, etc. …),
subjects
(investigation into the symmetries of polyhedra,
compounds, galaxies, vertebrates, human brain, buildings, etc. …).
(2) Symmetry
Classification Scheme (SCS)
The
Symmetry Classification Scheme
(SCS) aims at arranging the terms, that may serve as
keywords to
describe bibliographic items included in the Symmetrion's
Bibliographic project. It will
be a manual which lists and labels terms to classify
and identify concepts, phenomena, subjects of studies, and
their sub-fields in symmetrology for bibliographic purposes. The terms
in the
Symmetry
Classification Scheme (SCS) will form a lattice, that means a
partially ordered set.
The
Thesaurus project should
be developed in correlation and simultaneously with the Symmetrion's
Links to other
websites featuring symmetry project, and the
Bibliographic project.
Your proposals to shape the project and contributions to the (1)
Web of symmetry related terms and
the (2)
Symmetry Classification
Scheme
(SCS) are welcome in
E-mail.
The Symmetrion keeps the right to moderate the submitted contributions.