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Aboriginal Art Directory featured on culture.gov.au

December 15, 2007 2:41 AM | by metis

The Aboriginal Art Directory is the featured website on culture.gov.au for the week starting Friday December 14, 2007. The Culture and Recreation Portal (culture.gov.au) provides access to online services and information in the fields of culture and recreation, from all...

The Aboriginal Art Directory is the featured website on culture.gov.au for the week starting Friday December 14, 2007.

The Culture and Recreation Portal (culture.gov.au) provides access to online services and information in the fields of culture and recreation, from all levels of government and the non-government sector.

This site is one of a series of Australian Government customer-focused websites or 'portals'. These portals and their entry point, australia.gov.au, form the Customer Focussed Portals Framework, part of the Government Online Strategy. The aim of the portals is to provide you with easy online access to government information and services by allowing you to find what you are looking for without having to know which government agency to contact.

Depending on the likely needs of the user, many of these portals will also provide access to non-government resources. Of the sites listed by the Culture and Recreation Portal, approximately 400 are government sites. The remaining sites are from non-government sources.
History of the Portal

The Culture and Recreation Portal, launched in June 2001, has been developed from the platform of Australia's Cultural Network (ACN), which has been available since 1997.

One of the aims of ACN was to promote the national arts institutions by providing wide electronic access to the cultural collections. The ACN objectives were to increase audience reach and provide innovative outreach programmes and to lay the foundations for cultural institutions nationwide to work more effectively together. It was noted that in order to provide a rich information environment it was important to link into major culture databases and to encourage developments in this area, and provide context and meaning.

Most of the sites listed and indexed by ACN are now listed and indexed by the Culture and Recreation Portal. With the expansion of scope to include recreation, we now list and index many additional sites relating to the sport and recreation sectors.

One of the aims of the Culture and Recreation Portal is to develop as a 'mature' portal based upon agreed minimum accessibility and usability standards as well as offering more sophisticated capabilities, including access to State and Territory and relevant non-government resources.

The Culture and Recreation Portal provides access to over 3,900 Australian culture and recreation websites. The majority of the websites are 'indexed', which means that all text content of a website will be indexed enabling searches of content via our search engine. Websites we are unable to index will be 'listed', which means the website name and brief details will be listed in our search results, with a direct link to the website.

Culture.gov.au describes the Aboriginal Art Directory as:

The Aboriginal Art Directory has been redesigned and relaunched, promising to be a global resource connecting the Aboriginal art community across 12 countries with over 7,000 Aboriginal artists, 600 vendors and 1,000 members listed. The directory allows buyers to shop around and find vendors according to artist, region, medium, location of vendor. The website also includes regular analysis on the Aboriginal art industry and trends.

Aboriginal Art Directory featured on culture.gov.au

 

 

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