Australian Music Online

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 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.[1][2] As of late 2009 the website is still offline.

Australian Music Online
Type of site
Australian music index
Available inEnglish
OwnerReamont Pty Ltd
Created byReamont Pty Ltd
URLhttp://www.amo.org.au/
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 2003
Current statusInactive, archived

Australian Music Online has an Alexa traffic rating of 430,350, with a rank of 19,854 for Australian internet users.[3]

On 10 March 2005, MusicAustralia, a National Library of Australia project, was announced, rendering much of Australian Music Online redundant.[4]

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.[5]

Notes
  1. "About Us". Australian Music Online. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2008.
  2. "FAQs". Australian Music Online. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  3. "amo.org.au - Traffic Details". Alexa. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  4. "National partnership delivers Australia 's music online, in time". Media Release. National Library of Australia. 10 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2008.
  5. http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/20/the-australia-councils-noise-festival-a-crikey-investigation/


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