About
What This Archive Is
Ta-Na-Si is an independent digital archive for documents and media. It exists for one purpose: to keep source material — texts, recordings, films, images, and data — and to serve it openly, so that people can research and inform themselves on the basis of facts rather than opinion. We think of the archive plainly, as a deliverer of evidential facts for external use: not a social network, not a feed, not a place for argument, but a quiet, reliable record you can look things up in and point others to.
Everything here is held by the people who run this particular archive. There is no company behind it deciding what you see, no advertising, and no tracking. What has been filed is what you find.
What You Can Do Here
You can search the whole collection by words and narrow it down as far as you need — by kind of material (articles, audio, video, documents, images, and datasets), by language, place, subject, contributor, time period, or the collection and series a piece belongs to. Results can be read as a plain list, a gallery of images, a compact grid, or a full-screen slideshow.
Open any record and you get the full picture: a description of what it is, the file itself to play or download, who made it, what larger work it is part of, and related items worth seeing next. Every record carries a stable link that never changes and a ready-made citation in Chicago, APA, or MLA form, so a fact you find today can be found — and quoted — again tomorrow. Every page can be read in your own language.
Facts Before Opinions
Public conversation today is loud and short on substance. This archive answers that in the simplest way we know: by keeping the evidence itself, findable and citable, instead of adding to the noise. It can serve a private person checking something for themselves, a student gathering sources for a school or university paper, or an open public debate that needs a shared, factual footing. The aim is always the same — to help people understand real conditions on the strength of facts.
Independent Research: A Doorway to the World's Archives
An archive should not end at its own walls. Alongside its own collection, this repository maintains a curated Independent Research directory — a guide to national archives, historical libraries, and media collections around the world: from the U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress to the German Bundesarchiv, the state archives of Russia, and the national archives of India, Japan, China, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Each entry describes what the institution holds and links directly to the original source.
Its purpose is simple: to encourage you to leave prefabricated paths, cross-reference material from diverse global perspectives, and explore the primary record firsthand — so that your picture of the world is your own, formed from the sources themselves rather than from someone's summary of them.
An Archive Anyone Can Run
This began as a private archive for two friends. It has since been rebuilt so that anyone can set up their own. Each archive is a separate, independent installation: a small family archive preserving letters and photographs for the next generation, a club or a town keeping its own record, or a large archive serving a whole region — the same tool carries all of them, from a handful of entries to millions of files.
Running one does not take technical knowledge. A guided setup in your browser installs the archive — no command line, offered in many languages — and from then on everything is managed from a plain web panel: adding and organizing records, uploading files, sorting them by subject and place, deciding who may help, and making backups. None of it requires touching code. Where several people keep an archive together, each is given exactly the part they are trusted with, and nothing more.
Independent by Design
This is a private, non-commercial project. Each archive runs on its own — files are served straight from its own server, with no third-party scripts, no outside content, and nothing about visitors handed to commercial networks. The material belongs to the archive and its keeper, not to a platform. Search engines and AI systems are deliberately welcomed, so the facts can be found and read widely; the people who visit are not measured or sold. Regular backups, kept both on the server and safely off-site, mean an archive built with care can last.
Who Keeps This Archive
The Project Behind This Archive
This archive runs on the Ta-Na-Si Media & Document Repository, an independent archive system created so that anyone can keep their own archive. The project and the software come from Raven D. Pond & Keylam Folker — they do not run this installation.
Raven D. Pond is the project's creator, curator, and mentor, contributing his own posts, podcasts, and videos.
Keylam Folker develops the software, produces the media, and manages the content of the Ta-Na-Si archive.
What follows is in the words of Raven D. Pond & Keylam Folker: the purpose of the archive and the personal concern behind it, the guidment we ask everyone who uses or runs an archive to respect, and a reflection on how facts are best carried between people.
In our archive or library we are organizing a tool for interested people to inform and research in historical and actual topics of countries archives worldwide. Our goal is to help understanding current conditions on facts. This can be helpful for private informations as a citizen or to find basic facts for highschool or university reputations. Also as a founded basic debate in public to fill citizen duties. I see myself (Raven D. Pond) as a creator, curator and mentor by own posts, podcasts and videos together with my friend Keylam. In my own way I like to overhand a tool for wide accessibility to people for better understanding of circumstances in our current political economic situation. Everybody shell have a simple tool on ones hand for factual information. Even so for educational purposes as for private use.
— Raven D. Pond
Das Anliegen
Bildung eines der wichtigsten Dinge im Leben eines Menschen. Ohne „Liberty“ ist eigenständigen, eigenverantwortlich lernen unmöglich. Kinder brauchen Eltern, die ein Verständnis für das Leben haben. Ohne Bildung können ihrem Elterlich auf Auftrag, das „Guidment“ für die nicht erfühlen. Mein Anliegen diese Archiv den Menschen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das sie frei, gemäß ihrer Fasong ihr Leben gestalten können und das Kinder mit ihrem Eltern ein Werkzeug in die Hand gegeben wird, das sie gemeinsam lernen können. Ich habe unser Archiv konzipiert für jeden der ein Archiv aufbauen, vom kleinen Familienarchiv bis hin einem großen, überregionalen Archiv. Ich sehe mich Selbst (Keylam Folker) als ein Developer, Multimedia Producer, Financier und Content Manager innerhalb vom Ta-Na-Si Projekt.
— Keylam Folker
For guidment to respect
- Birth is the guaranteed right of existence
- Every single adult (18 years) is responsible for his acting without social damage.
- Right of happiness and wellbeing.
- Right of freedom of religion
- Right of freedom of speech.
- Right of education.
- Saving data against untrustworthy use.
The systemic and organic conversation
The systemic conversation is based on a factual abstraction only to understand straight by fact to avoid misinterpretations. Precisely fed it's very accurate. In this way it's a good supporter. Hypothetically used the System can only assume cause it has no upgrade for the facts to proof. So it has no good further orientation and is not able to be that precise.
Even other systems like governments, offices, executives and administrations have the same problem.
Organic communication has a back up to orientate. People which are organic have an upgrade by them feeling and them senses to build up realistic facts. There it is not needed to abstract a feeling by thinking to example about temperature by the sense it clearly say's cold or hot. And the feeling inform also if too cold or too hot. And the action resulting results out of. So the reaction time stays short.
The people which live in a governmental system or operate with systemic devices should learn to put these ,back up' facts them senses and feelings in a systemic accurate information for cooperational purposes. So we can always find accurate practical solutions. From the cooperation with the AI we can learn how precise it can be to cooperate.
— Raven D. Pond