Weekly Catalog Compile

The weekly catalog compile is the heartbeat of the lab. Once a week, a cron job walks LinkCatalog and rebuilds the derived artefacts: tag indexes, source indexes, date indexes, the list of pending drops, and the rendered trails. It writes the result into the path Citta reads from, so publishing is always one step away from the compiled state.

Running it weekly rather than continuously is deliberate. The catalogue is more useful as a settled, dated snapshot than as a live feed, and a weekly compile leaves room for the human work of cataloguing in between.

What the compile produces

• Tag, source, and date indexes over all catalogued links.
• A rendered view of every trail.
• A pending-drops summary: what has been acknowledged but not yet catalogued.

What it does not do

It does not publish. Publishing is the next step, and it is its own decision.