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Type of site | Music database |
|---|---|
| Owner | Derek McDonald/Emperor Multimedia |
| Created by | Derek McDonald |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | September 1999 |
| Current status | Active |
Diskery.com (commonly known as just Diskery but whose full name is The Diskery Project Consortium) is an online encyclopedia/database based upon musical groups who predominantly perform heavy metal music but also features hard rock, punk rock and classic rock along with its various sub-genres.
The purpose of Diskery is to provide comprehensive information on each band, such as a discography, logos, pictures, lyrics, line-ups, biography and trivia. The site also provides a system for submitting bands to the archives. The website is free to the general public and is run completely independently. The site is nearly completely automated except for the artist submission and review processes. The site is also accompanied by companion apps for both desktop and mobile. There is an API for app developers and corporate users. No membership is required for the general public to view or submit artists; there is a fee for corporate users, however. The site is mostly self-financed via its operators and donations. It does sponsor advertising but this accounts for less than 1% of the revenue.[1][2]
History
[edit]The nucleus of what was to become Diskery started as an organization known as the RRCA (Rock Record Collectors Association) in 1997 which sponsored several projects published by Canada's Emperor Multimedia Corporation which, at the time, was located in Oakville, Ontario. The resulting three Derek McDonald produced recordings (The Alliance, Recorded History, and Polishing of Metal) contained an encyclopedia of the featured bands as a multimedia component. In 1999, Emperor Multimedia registered Diskery.com as a sales site for its recordings with the RRCA database as a side project but the closure of Emperor Multimedia's retail operations in 2013 left the site orphaned. Derek McDonald, owner of Emperor Multimedia (who is a software engineer and and former owner of computer firm DMCS Technologies), spawned Diskery off as its own entity to continue the RRCA mandate to archive the entire genre. To this day McDonald is the chief editor for the site, and also was the programmer of all of its software and database.[3][4]
The site recently underwent a massive renovation advertised as "Diskery 3" and saw the launch of both a mobile and desktop applications.[5]
Entry Into the Database
[edit]Diskery allows any artist or record label to send an e-mail with media information (pictures, sample music, citations, etc) for review. Members of the general public are also allowed to submit but undergo a stronger scrutiny and must cite sources for their information and copyright clearance if providing music or images. Diskery staff and automated systems also conduct research to locate entry candidates.
The one rule Diskery is very strict on is any artist entered into the database must have published at least one non-demo recording sold to the public this is in conformity to its original mandate as being an information source for record collectors.[6]
In 2015 Diskery ended its long standing policy of only allowing physical recordings to be entered, and expanded its archive to include digital recordings as well. It also dropped the requirement for physical media be sent to them.
Entry into the database is free.[7]
Demographics
[edit]Diskery only accepts heavy metal, punk rock, classic rock and hard rock acts into its system. The definitions of the genres over the years have been applied liberally, however, as bands that are 'metal-like' have also been admitted into the system over the years. These 'metal-like' acts have had a large benefit on the Diskery site over the years as it has allowed the site to offer more complete link references with respect to artist CVs over history, as well expanded viewership.
Trivia
[edit]The name Diskery was discovered by McDonald as he watched a 1997 episode of the Jeopardy game show. Derek McDonald was also the programmer of the McBBS communication software.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Diskery History" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Diskery FAQ" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Diskery History" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Technology Used at Diskery" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Diskery News" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Mission Statement" Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).
- ^ "Getting Your Band Listed Archived 2025-05-15 at diskery.com (Error: unknown archive URL).