Australian Music Online
Encyclopedia
Australian Music Online is a website
that indexes
information related to Australian music. Launched in March 2003 as an Australian Federal Government initiative, and originally proposed in 1998, the website was actively updated until 31 March 2007, at which point its role transferred to that of an archive. It has been noted that there are plans to restructure the website. As of late 2009 the website is still offline.
Australian Music Online has an Alexa
traffic rating of 430,350, with a rank of 19,854 for Australian internet users.
On 10 March 2005, MusicAustralia, a National Library of Australia
project, was announced, rendering much of Australian Music Online redundant.
There has been some controversy around the allocation of public funding to this project as there was no competitive tender process. This culminated in the publication of a crikey.com article in 2007.
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information related to Australian music. Launched in March 2003 as an Australian Federal Government initiative, and originally proposed in 1998, the website was actively updated until 31 March 2007, at which point its role transferred to that of an archive. It has been noted that there are plans to restructure the website. As of late 2009 the website is still offline.
Australian Music Online has an Alexa
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traffic rating of 430,350, with a rank of 19,854 for Australian internet users.
On 10 March 2005, MusicAustralia, a National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...
project, was announced, rendering much of Australian Music Online redundant.
There has been some controversy around the allocation of public funding to this project as there was no competitive tender process. This culminated in the publication of a crikey.com article in 2007.