Tangi Earls is changing things up... again

Tangi Earls is changing things up... again

Tangi Earls is changing things up... again

Systems thinker. Structure enthusiast. Recovering UX designer.

I spent years learning how to make things look good. Turns out what I actually love is making things make sense — organizing information, building taxonomies, designing the systems that keep digital chaos from winning.

I'm currently transitioning into digital asset management and metadata coordination, bringing a background in technical operations, content lifecycle management, and an embarrassing number of houseplants.

This site is where I document that work.

A self-built DAM system for three personal collections — and proof that the best way to learn a tool is to build something real with it.

The Problem
I needed hands-on experience with a real DAM platform — not a tutorial, not a sandbox. So I built one.


The Decisions
Designed a unified taxonomy framework spanning three distinct asset collections: botanical (Flora), audio (Audio), and bibliographic (Library). Built metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies for each, established naming conventions, folder architecture, and a repeatable ingestion workflow from scratch.


The Implementation
Deployed ResourceSpace via Podman on Bazzite Linux using an official Docker image and multi-container networking — on an immutable operating system I'd been using for less than two months.


The Result
A live, actively maintained DAM system with real assets, real metadata, and real governance. Still growing.

The Problem
I needed hands-on experience with a real DAM platform — not a tutorial, not a sandbox. So I built one.


The Decisions
Designed a unified taxonomy framework spanning three distinct asset collections: botanical (Flora), audio (Audio), and bibliographic (Library). Built metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies for each, established naming conventions, folder architecture, and a repeatable ingestion workflow from scratch.


The Implementation
Deployed ResourceSpace via Podman on Bazzite Linux using an official Docker image and multi-container networking — on an immutable operating system I'd been using for less than two months.


The Result
A live, actively maintained DAM system with real assets, real metadata, and real governance. Still growing.

The Problem
I needed hands-on experience with a real DAM platform — not a tutorial, not a sandbox. So I built one.


The Decisions
Designed a unified taxonomy framework spanning three distinct asset collections: botanical (Flora), audio (Audio), and bibliographic (Library). Built metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies for each, established naming conventions, folder architecture, and a repeatable ingestion workflow from scratch.


The Implementation
Deployed ResourceSpace via Podman on Bazzite Linux using an official Docker image and multi-container networking — on an immutable operating system I'd been using for less than two months.


The Result
A live, actively maintained DAM system with real assets, real metadata, and real governance. Still growing.

🌿 root & record is ongoing. The taxonomy grows with the collections.

Built with: ResourceSpace · Podman · Bazzite Linux · MariaDBs

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I’m Tangi and I'm figuring it out.

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I’m Tangi and I'm figuring it out.

©2024 to ∞

I’m Tangi and I'm figuring it out.

©2024 to ∞