# Curating the Smol Earth Compedium

The Smol Earth Compendium is created and maintained by a team of volunteer
curators.  Each curator hosts a small file in a simple format somewhere
in Gopherspace or Geminispace, and updates it with URLs and tags as they
discover new content.  The smol.earth server polls each curator's file once
per 24 hours and records new additions.  Information from all curators is
combined into a single database.  After each daily polling of the files,
the database is examined for consensus and a new daily "edition" of the
Compendium is published.  A link makes it into an edition if more than one
curator has added it, and the link is published with all the tags which have
been applied by more than one curator.

Read more about the curation file format at:
gopher://smol.earth:70/0/compendium/file-format.txt

Importantly, the entire compendium is republished in precisely the same file
format as the individual curator's files it is built from.  This means the
same or similar software tools could be used to produce a meta-compendium
aggregating the Smol Earth Compendium with other, similar projects on topics
likely to be of interest to the same audience.  In principle this whole
workflow scales both up and down to help build decentralised and remixable
content directories.

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