Tango.info
For all pages in the tango.info wiki starting with "tango.info", see Special:PrefixIndex/tango.info.
Overview
https://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.
News
See: Special:PrefixIndex/tango.info_news
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 tango.info identifiers.
- link to country page https://tango.info/AR (ISO 3166-1)
- link to city page https://tango.info/ARBUE (UN/LOCODE)
- 2007-07-24 linking via IPI supported. e.g. https://tango.info/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.