AusStage provides an accessible online resource for researching live performance in Australia. Development is led by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and collecting institutions with funding from the Australian Research Council and other sources.
Australian companies stage some of the most ambitious and innovative live performances, projecting images of Australian culture to audiences here and overseas. AusStage records the significance of these artistic collaborations and stimulates new approaches to collaborative research.
AusStage is committed to collecting and sharing information about Australian live performance as an ongoing, open-access and collaborative endeavour. The AusStage project office and server infrastructure are housed at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. AusStage users come from across Australia and around the world.
By sharing knowledge through AusStage researchers and consumers can learn more about Australian performance than ever before.
AusStage is a data set of live Events with dramatic and performance content covering all of Australia, plus many International links.
The AusStage database has seven major tables for recording information about the performing arts:
The Event is fundamental to the design of the AusStage database. The Contributor, Venue, Organisation and Work tables receive data in relation to the Event. Resource records are usually created to describe material items or digital objects relating to records in the other tables. Records on Contributors, Venues, Organisations, Works and Resources may also be entered independently of the Event. Financial records present publicly available financial information relating to either Organisations or Contributors in collated datasets.
To reveal the number of live records in AusStage simply view the AusStage by Numbers tab on the AusStage home page and the record numbers will show into the relevant categories to the left.
AusStage is used by a broad group including:
Researchers use AusStage for different kinds of research, including:
AusStage supports researchers at each stage of the process:
Researchers work with AusStage in a variety of ways:
AusStage provides information, support and advice to researchers working at all levels - honours and postgraduate, early career researchers and academics, and those working in the arts industry, government agencies and collections sector.
Researchers and students use AusStage to develop new knowledge about live performance in Australia and to assess the contribution that live events make to the nation's cultural vitality and international image.
Companies, artists and reviewers use AusStage to find out who's doing what in the live performance industry.
Librarians, archivists and museum staff use AusStage as a source of information on items in their collections and to assist the public with enquiries.
AusStage welcomes contributions from artists, spectators, producers, agents, students, teachers, researchers, librarians, archivists and the public.