Rabble Co-Sponsors the Social Good Summit

At Rabble, we were excited to participate in the inaugural Social Good Summit at this year’s Forward Festival, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship in the greater Madison area.

Check out this news story about the event and the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurship in Madison, including this quote by Preston: “There are two dialogues surrounding entrepreneurship in Madison. . . . One is for people who have access to (tools to create) startups. The other is for people of color and, to a lesser degree, women, who feel they are living in a different world.”

Photo: Social Good Summit by Jon Hain

Capital City Records Launches

Check out this article from Edmonton's #YegMusic Magazine about the launch of Capital City Records, with responses from participating musicians, like this one from Julie Adams of the band Unwed Mothers:

“Art is an integral part of a community and playing music in Edmonton is something that has made me feel connected to the people in this city more than anything else. It is so great that people can find these recordings any time at the library whether it’s just to enjoy the music or to discover more of what Edmonton has to offer.”

Radio Interview: One Year of the Yahara Music Library

Check out Tone Madison's interview with Rabble co-founder Kelly Hiser and Madison librarian Guy Hankel on the challenges and successes of Madison's YML. 

Building Better Library Software

Check out our latest blog post at the Library as Incubator Project on how we're working to build better software with libraries - and why it's so important. As Kelly and Preston write, "Upholding core library values, like free access to information and the public’s right to privacy, is something we think libraries deserve from their software."

Photo: System Code by Yuri Samoilov CC BY.

Capital City Records Makes News in Edmonton

Check out the Edmonton Journal's coverage on the library's Capital City Records, including this quote from Digital Public Spaces Librarian Alex Carruthers (pictured): 

“This is an opportunity for us to take advantage of cool new technology that can help people engage with cultural history in exciting ways."

Edmonton Public Library's First Digital Public Space

Check out this post by Alex Carruthers, Edmonton's Digital Public Spaces Librarian, on the library's plans for Capital City Records, our shared commitment to open development, and their vision for digital public spaces where "anyone, anywhere, anytime can access, explore and create with digital content."

photo: Edmonton Public Library by IQRemix, CC BY SA 2.0

Rabble's 2014 Recap via Capital Entrepreneurs

Check out what we did in 2014 and what we're looking forward to in the year ahead!

Photo by of Madison, WI by Richard Hurd CC BY 2.0

Library as Incubator Project features Rabble

"We want to live in a world where all libraries can easily share their communities’ creative work online."

Read more in Kelly's latest post on Rabble at the Library as Incubator Project. 

Art in Colors image by Ishrona at flickr. CC BY 2.0

We're starting to build with Edmonton Public Library!

Check out Edmonton's blog post on their technical progress. As they say:

"This project is committed to open source development. Once the site is built, Rabble will open up all of the code we have developed together on GitHub making it accessible to all and keeping the public in digital public space."

Edmonton Public Library's Digital Local Music Project

At Rabble, we're super excited to begin a partnership with the Edmonton Public Library on the development of their digital local music project. The library has big plans for this project, which will include a crowd-sourced historical archive in addition to a collection of albums by contemporary musicians in Edmonton. 

The library's goal is to celebrate Edmonton's musicians as well as the community that supports them. The project came out of a larger thought experiment at the library to imagine what a digital public space means and could be. Creating a public online space for the community - and supporting Edmonton's musicians in the process - resonates with the library's community-led philosophy which aims to "strengthen neighborhoods and communities by creating connections and understanding needs."

At Rabble, we're looking forward to working with librarians, developers, musicians, and other community leaders in Edmonton to build tools that realize the library's goals for their project. Stay tuned for more information as we head toward a spring 2015 launch! 

Photo: A small concert at EPL by forester401 on flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Behind the Scenes of the Yahara Music Library

In her latest blog post at the Library as Incubator Project, Kelly Hiser talks licensing, collection development policy, and technical details. The above photo of the super-happy (or, in the case of librarian Guy Hankel, super-cool) Yahara team was taken by Carolyn Fath from the Isthmus. 

Intro to the Yahara Music Library

Our CEO, Kelly Hiser, gives an overview of YaharaMusic.org in her ongoing series of blog posts for the Library as Incubator Project. Kelly talks about her experience working on the project, creating a site the fosters active fandom, and growing a diverse collection that reflects the musical variety on offer in Madison.