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The Smol Earth Compendium is a community-curated collection of links |
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to Gemini and Gopher content related to the natural world and the great |
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outdoors, especially content which fosters a deeper sense of connection to |
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nature, encourages long term holistic thinking about the natural world, |
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or contributes to an increased awareness that all human activity takes |
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place within the natural world, is inescapably dependent upon that world, |
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and has unavoidable impacts on that world. |
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Read more about the scope of the Compendium here |
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The Compedium is not an aggregator of phlogs or gemlogs like Bongusta or |
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Antenna, because almost nobody writes exclusively about topics within its |
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scope. The basic unit is individual posts, pages, or articles. There's no |
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facility for authors to directly submit their individual in-scope posts, |
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because that would invite spam, and that workflow will not scale well |
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for authors if many other link curating projects with different focuses |
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appear (and we hope they will). Instead, we are experimenting with a novel |
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distributed curation approach based on consensus amongst a small team. |
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Read more about how the Compendium is curated here |
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The Compendium is organised as a folksonomy. Entries are assigned one or more |
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tags, and the tags do not exist within a strict hierarchy. This approach |
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can get messy and inconsistent when attempted at large scales without any |
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coordination or oversight. We hope to build a consistent, useable catalogue |
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by operating with a small team who can easily adopt conventions. |
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The Smol Earth Compendium is a very new project. There's nothing more to |
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see here yet, but stay tuned... |
