hbons/SparkleShare — Issue #401: filter notifications
Author: robinboast
Created: 2011-11-03 09:59:32+00:00
State: open

Hi SparkleShare. I have just been looking at SparkleShare only recently as a way of solving some rather serious problems in eHumanities, eScience and digital repository access. This all sounds very grand for a file sharing platform, but the problem that we have in all these areas is that to share information between diverse, very diverse, user groups, requires either hyper-limiting metadata or some sort of portal. We have been looking at PubSubHubBub, but have found that wanting as the content is too limited. SparkleShare seems ideal for what we are looking for, but for one problem. Clients in our networks need to be able to idiosyncratically filter the notifications and even what files get synced as there is a lot of data. Have you considered implementing simple client side filtering? Please do as this would overcome some huge limitations for specialist data sharing networks.
Happy to talk more about this if you are interested.