摘要：Music Australia is an online service that showcases Australia’s musical culture across contemporary and historical periods, from the earliest published music to the latest hit. It is a free resource discovery service, hosted by the National Library of Australia that helps people to find, explore and locate all types, styles and genres of Australian music – whether created, performed or published in Australia or by Australians, or associated with Australia’s musical culture.Music Australia was a key platform for innovation in national discovery services when it was first conceived in 2001. The vision encompassed a long term plan to grow the number of organisations in Australia contributing music records to the national bibliographic data‐set; to develop online Australian music content (of which there was almost none in 2001); and to showcase, network and build an audience for our rich, but dispersed and often inaccessible, Australian music collections. Music Australia’s subsequent development was driven by three service‐oriented questions tailored to the needs of users.
