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*2007-07-24 linking via [[IPI]] supported. e.g. http://eng.tango.info/IPI:00071439284 | *2007-07-24 linking via [[IPI]] supported. e.g. http://eng.tango.info/IPI:00071439284 | ||
Revision as of 2008-10-08T14:05:13
Overview
http://tango.info is a group of websites (including this wiki) providing information on tango. The domain was bought in 2004 by Tobias Conradi, who provided tango information under the domain tobiasconradi.com before that.
Content
Coverage
The site offers the following data, marked with (d) if it can be downloaded at open.tango.info [1]:
- 1800 entries for people related to tango, such as teachers, poets, composers, musicians (d)
- 470 entries for historical and upcoming tango festivals (d)
- 10000 short title information, partially connected with the corresponding composer and poet data
- 2000 entries for Tango CDs, partially with track info (d)
- 15000 CD track entries, partially linked with the title information (d)
- 1400 links to tango websites
For the quantity of links and festivals this website is the leading tango website.
Openess
At open.tango.info a direct access to the database is offered for free download of tango data. The website structures data wherever possible in compliance with ISO or W3C standards. Because this is also used in the URLs it allows users and other websites to easily link to tango.info or incorporate downloaded data somewhere else.
URL and data structure
The URLs are constructed in a way to allow relatively short links. Components of the URLs are the individual identifiers.
- 2007-07-24 linking via IPI supported. e.g. http://eng.tango.info/IPI:00071439284
Software
tango.info runs with
- Debian
- PHP
- Apache
- MySQL
usage and reference issues
Influences on other sites
Following the 2005 creation of festivals.tango.info, La Cadena announced: ...since others -the current number two- do a better job at it, we shall soon stop updating this list. There´s no need to do double work... [2].
An effect of the dedication to standards is the switch of timegenie.com to UN/LOCODE and the latter now linking to Wikipedia country and city articles.
- 2008-03-03 discovered several pages that use tango.info data, that one links back: http://community.livejournal.com/tango_music/944.html - but credit not given. poster was: http://tomira.livejournal.com/ tomira.net - Irina Nekrasova, Moscow. I like the backlinks.
Deletion of Wikipedia article about tango.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tango.info_%282nd_nomination%29
below is the former article
{{Infobox Website |websitename=tango.info |reg=No |owner=Tobias Conradi |author=Tobias Conradi }}
tango.info is a multilingual argentine tango information service. If measured by Alexa Internet traffic rank [3] it is the second most important tango webstie after todotango.com [4].
It is the only tango website providing that amount of tango information not only in english and spanish but also in 25 other languages. A unique feature is the open access to tango data in raw format for download and inclusion in other databases. This is helpful for tango collectionists as is the second unique feature, the direct title comparison. This cannot be found on any other tango website. Tracks of the same song are matched to see where a song was published else. A fair amount of tango music is reproduction of 78rpm discs resulting in varying quality depending on the care that was taken during reproduction.
Since July 2005 tango.info supports Google Earth by delivering content in KML.
Other tango information sites
External links
[[:Category:Dance websites]] [[:Category:Music websites]] [[:Category:Tango]]