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Contact Contact::Asheesh Laroia
Project ,|project_name|Project Driver::project_name}}
Status Status::Draft

The people who run a DiscoverEd instance may wish to be updated nearly-immediately when there are new resources published by a curator.

Right now, DiscoverEd instances aggregate feeds and crawl every once in a while, often manually at the behest of the search engine operator. PubSubHubBub provides a way for the DiscoverEd instance to subscribe feeds and receive automatic, nearly-instantaneous notification of new information in the feed.

This can be built on top of existing Atom/RSS feeds that curators already publish.

This feature was defined and developed during the fun DC meeting thing. (Nathan, did that meeting have a name?)

Requirements

To be considered working, this specification would provide the following things.

  • Instructions for any Atom/RSS feed to participate in the PuSH network.
  • DiscoverEd can accept POST requests from a PuSH hub. These POST requests are how the hub notifies the Nutch
  • DiscoverEd can subscribe to updates from a PuSH hub (whose address can be configured in the configuration file).