M3P:Inaugural Conference

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The M3P Inaugural Conference will take place in Malta on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 June 2011.

The conference will take place at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta. There will be parallel sessions in the Cinema on the top floor and the Studio next door to the Music Room on the ground floor. Details of the full programme will be reproduced on this page as they become available.

Call for Papers & Presentations

This is the main text circulated ahead of the conference to invite papers and presentations:

Following on from the symposium held to launch the Malta Music Memory Project (M3P) in September 2010, the M3P Foundation will be holding its first annual conference at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta, on 3-4 June 2011, in association with the University of Hull's School of Arts and New Media (Scarborough Campus), the University of Malta's Departments of Communications & Computer Engineering and Youth & Community Studies, and the National Archives of Malta.
The theme for this two-day conference is Ensuring Longevity On Collaborative Memory Projects Online. There will be two parallel strands made up of ongoing community development workshops and panels for paper presentations. Participants in both strands will meet for plenaries as well as for evening live music performances on each day of the conference.
Papers and presentations are invited in panels on each of following general topics, in relation to the conference theme - Ensuring Longevity on Collaborative Memory Projects:
  • Information management issues in crowd-sourced archives
  • Technical considerations for memory projects
  • Cultural benefits embedded in collaborative online archiving
Proposals crossing between any of these topics and other related areas are also welcome.
Please send your proposal (250-500 words) and brief bio (100-150 words) to t.sant(at)hull(dot)ac(dot)uk and saviour.zammit(at)um(dot)edu(dot)mt by Monday 28 February 2011.
All papers/presentations will be peer-reviewed for inclusion in published conference proceedings later on in 2011.
This conference is supported in part by the Malta Arts Fund of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts within the Parliamentary Secretariat for Tourism, Culture & the Environment. The publication of conference proceeding is supported by the University of Hull's Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.



Planning

An initial planning meeting took place on 16 November 2010 between Michael Bugeja, Alex Grech, Tony Grimaud and Toni Sant. See agenda [1].

There will be a further gathering in Scarborough on Wednesday 23 February 2011 (this date aligns with a Malta-related PGR seminar within SANM).

Evening events

We're considering a Friday/Saturday evening venue for a small gig / social event. The best idea/opportunity floated so far is for an evening in Rabat/Mdina in collaboration with the National Archives (and the National Memory Project), particularly aimed at bringing in different/under-represented genre/s (i.e. crowd/s) to the M3P. Mario Frendo has agreed to help with this, if necessary. Toni Sant is also planning to discuss possibilities with Dominic Galea and Ruben Zahra. Tony Grimaud will be leading on this aspect of the conference programme.

A Friday/Saturday evening gig/social event on the other day is also being considered in collaboration with Reciprocal Records and/or Hairy Amp, for whichever other day during the conference with the aim of having an evening gathering each night of the conference. Michael Bugeja is leading on this.

Possible Programme Elements

  • TALK: The Spirit of the M3P: Why is it important?! - possibly by someone other that Toni Sant (proposed by Tony Grimaud)
  • MUSIC DEMONSTRATIONS: Old-timers and/or endangered genres (propsed by Tony Grimaud)
  • ENCOUNTERS: Family Trees and Social Networks - Toni Sant (proposed by Tony Grimaud)

Networking Workshop/s

- The conference must include networking workshop/s similar to the one we had at the St James Cavalier Studio during the launch. This sort of thing is essential for all major M3P events.

  • ROUNDTABLE: Broadcasting the idea to Malta's Broadcasters - Tony Grimaud (recommended by Toni Sant)
  • HANDS-ON SESSIONS: Registered users who are still to contribute: What's keep you...? - Tony Grimaud

Academic Papers/Presentations

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Archiving Workshop/s

These should also be considered in relation to pending JISC e-Content programme bid.

Publication of Proceedings

UoH has already pledged some funding towards this, but we need to check with CCP/UoM/others for possible further support. (January 2011)

- This is being coordinated by Toni Sant.

See also