Australian Music Online is a
website
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that
indexes information related to
Australian music
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions ...
. Launched in March 2003 as an
Australian Federal Government initiative, and originally proposed in 1998, the website was 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
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maint ...
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.
Notes
External links
AMO site archived at Wayback Machine
Australian music websites
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