I have published a draft specification addressing inefficiencies in how web crawlers access structured content to create data for AI training systems.

Problem Statement

Current AI training approaches rely on scraping HTML designed for human consumption, creating three challenges:

1. Data quality degradation: Content extraction from HTML produces datasets contaminated with navigational elements, advertisements, and presentational markup, requiring extensive post-processing and degrading training quality
2. Infrastructure inefficiency: Large-scale content indexing systems process substantial volumes of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with significant portions discarded as presentation markup rather than semantic content

   I have published a draft specification addressing inefficiencies in how web crawlers access structured content to create data for AI training systems.

   Problem Statement

   Current AI training approaches rely on scraping HTML designed for human consumption, creating three challenges:

   1. Data quality degradation: Content extraction from HTML produces datasets contaminated with navigational elements, advertisements, and presentational markup, requiring extensive post-processing and degrading training quality
   2. Infrastructure inefficiency: Large-scale content indexing systems process substantial volumes of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with significant portions discarded as presentation markup rather than semantic content
   3. Legal and ethical ambiguity: Automated scraping operates in uncertain legal territory. Websites that wish to contribute high-quality content to AI training lack a standardized mechanism for doing so

   Technical Approach

   The Site Content Protocol (SCP) provides a standard format for websites to voluntarily publish pre-generated, compressed content collections optimized for automated consumption:

   • Structured JSON Lines format with gzip/zstd compression
   • Collections hosted on CDN or cloud object storage
   • Discovery via standard sitemap.xml extensions
   • Snapshot and delta architecture for efficient incremental updates
   • Complete separation from human-facing HTML delivery

   I would appreciate your feedback on the format design and architectural decisions: https://github.com/crawlcore/scp-protocol

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