Thanks to support from the Entrepreneurship Academy at Purdue’s Discovery Park (and help from Performant Software Solutions), I have completed a BRANCH plugin that will allow me to generate RDF for the site in such a way that the site can then be directly aggregated by NINES (nines.org) each month. That may sound like a lot of tech jargon, so let me say simply that Performant has done a very neat thing for BRANCH—one click and immediate, no mess indexing of the entire site by NINES. Click here to see what a search for BRANCH articles from within NINES looks like:
http://www.nines.org/search/saved?user=DWheeles&name=branch
There should be no more than a month’s lag now between publication in BRANCH and aggregation by NINES. The aggregation includes full-text searching—for example, this search for ‘event’ in BRANCH, from within NINES:
http://www.nines.org/search/saved?user=DWheeles&name=branch_event
