Discogs

Discogs
Type of site	Music
Available in	English
Owner	Zink Media, Inc.
Created by	Kevin Lewandowski
Revenue	Advertisement, Marketplace Seller Fees
URL	Discogs.com
Commercial	Partially
Registration	Optional
Launched	October 2000
Current status	Active

Discogs is a website and database of information about record label releases and recordings. Discogs is owned by Zink Media, Inc. in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is believed to be the largest online database of releases on vinyl, but Discogs began by concentrating on issues of electronic music becoming one of the largest online databases in that field.

History

The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000. Discogs was released in October 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski. It started as a database of his personal music collection. The name of the site is short for discographies.

Contribution system

The information on Discogs comes from members of the website.

References

↑ Agosti, Maristella; Esposito, Floriana; Thanos, Costantino (2010-09-11). Digital Libraries: 6th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2010, Padua, Italy, January 28-29, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 207. ISBN 978-3-642-15850-6.
↑ Lüke, Karl-Heinz; Eichler, Gerald; Erfurth, Christian; Fahrnberger, Günter (2019-05-31). Innovations for Community Services: 19th International Conference, I4CS 2019, Wolfsburg, Germany, June 24-26, 2019, Proceedings. Springer. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-030-22482-0.

Other websites

Official Website
Disbugs – Discogs issues/bugs and features requests.
Discogs wiki Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine – Discogs wiki site.

[1] Agosti, Maristella; Esposito, Floriana; Thanos, Costantino (2010-09-11). Digital Libraries: 6th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2010, Padua, Italy, January 28-29, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 207. ISBN 978-3-642-15850-6.

[2] Lüke, Karl-Heinz; Eichler, Gerald; Erfurth, Christian; Fahrnberger, Günter (2019-05-31). Innovations for Community Services: 19th International Conference, I4CS 2019, Wolfsburg, Germany, June 24-26, 2019, Proceedings. Springer. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-030-22482-0.