Infrastructure people, for the long term.

What we do

Data Tango does two partnered things: we preserve digital and digitized material for the long term, then we make it accessible. These are not separate service lines — they are the two halves of one lifecycle. You keep material safe, and then you make it usable.

How we do it

On the preservation side: OAIS-aligned workflows, fixity checking, BagIt and OCFL packaging, format identification and normalization, and PREMIS-aware metadata, with ISO 16363 as the horizon. On the access side: IIIF, deep-zoom image delivery, open APIs, and viewers that make collections explorable. We treat these as craft, not a feature list.

What we believe

• Access is the goal — preservation only matters if the material is eventually used.
• Preservation done properly: fixity, open formats, and standards that outlive any one vendor.
• Accessibility is a default, not a feature — much of this work is publicly funded.

Proof, by demonstration

We're early, with no client logos to show — and we think that's the wrong proof anyway. Judge us on work you can open and inspect: the live IIIF playground, and our code on GitHub. As real engagements arrive, they'll be written up here.

The person behind it

[Founder bio goes here: who you are, your background in preservation and access, any talks or community work, and why you started Data Tango. Keep it honest, low-flash, and confident.]