Industry Links
Industry Partners and Collaborative Projects
AusStage developed as a partnership between industry organisations and university researchers with funding from the Australian Research Council. Industry partners in phase 3 include the Australia Council for the Arts, Windmill Performing Arts, and the Performing Arts Special Interest Group of Museums Australia.
Many other collections, organisations and projects are using AusStage to record information about performing arts items and events in their collections, including:
- Bendigo Performing Arts Centre
- Canberra Heritage Library
- Flinders Drama Centre Graduates
- Melbourne Theatre Company
- Melbourne Workers Theatre, digitisation project with Deakin University
- Queensland Performing Arts Centre Museum
- Sidetrack Performance Group, digitisation project with Macquarie University
- Special Collections at Flinders University Library, cataloguing programme collection
- Special Collections at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, cataloguing and digitising program collection
- Stage on Screen collection, University of New England, collaboration with ABC Television and Channel 9
- The Ballets Russes Project, a collaboration between the Australian Ballet, the National Library of Australia, and the University of Adelaide
- University of Western Australia Library
- UWA Theatre History Group
Industry Support
Industry support enables data sets of particular significance to a venue, company or artist to be recorded in AusStage. This may take the form of a financial contribution for data entry or an in-kind contribution of labour.
In 2008 Melbourne Theatre Company funded a thorough update of AusStage records from its beginnings as the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1953 until the present day. Completion is aimed to coincide with the MTC's arrival in its new home opposite the Arts Centre. Cross-checking Company records with published histories and web-based resources, each record includes a brief synopsis, complete cast and crew lists, accurate performance dates and appropriate content indicators to better facilitate research-based queries. As the oldest surviving theatre company in Australia, it is fitting that the MTC's records should serve as a benchmark for other institutions in our national performance database.
AusStage provides on-site training in data entry and ongoing support to sustain data quality. Contact us if you are interested forming a partnership with AusStage or offering support.
