About us
Started because a hard drive went missing in a house move
Openlattice began when a decade of field measurements was lost between two universities.
Origin
The data was on one disk, in one office
A colleague's twelve-year monitoring record — the only copy — went missing during a departmental relocation. The funder had required a data management plan; the plan said 'stored on institutional servers'. It was not. We built somewhere for that data to actually live, and made it free so nobody has a budget reason to skip it.
- Free to deposit and free to download
- 25-year preservation commitment with a funded reserve
- Succession agreement with the national library
One department's archive
40 TB and a borrowed rack.
DOI minting
Datasets become citable objects.
First external mirror
The national library joins.
20 TB deposits
Large-file ingest rebuilt.
9.4 PB
41,208 datasets, six mirrors.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.