Preston Austin
MUSICat architect and founder at Rabble LLC
I work with public librarians who collect and share local music with their communities and visitors.
MUSICat is a turnkey online platform, built with and for public libraries. Each instance is a library-convened locally-governed digital public space to collect, curate, license, and stream local music.
MUSICat is designed to respect artists and support art with its paid artist-friendly licenses for invited album submissions.
@ajsadauskas Back when, UW Madison hosted an outfit called The Internet Scout Project that was in the curation business for web resources. The decaying state of search (alternatively the growth of web resources intended to serve interests other than their visitors’) has me thinking it would be good to work with public libraries to convene and host this sort of thing.
Librarianship is the right sort of ethos for it, and libraries are infrastructure for human-mediated discoverability.