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 Atrium 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.

Draft Schedule

FRIDAY

13:30 - Intro - Toni Sant

WORKSHOPS (ATRIUM)
14:00 - Workshop 1: Introduction level (open to all)
15:00 - Workshop 2: Intermediate level (open to all)
16:00 - Workshop 3: Advanced level (by invitation only)

SEMINARS/ROUNDTABLES (CINEMA)
14:00 - Technical Issues (open to all)
15:30 - EU Culture (by invitation only)

17:00 - End of Valletta Sessions for the day

EVENING EVENTS
19:00 - Galea Family & Friends - National Archives Rabat

22:00 - You Rarely Hear That on the Radio 2 V-Gen - Paceville


SATURDAY

10:00 - Intro - Alex Grech & Michael Bugeja
10:15 - Birmingham Popular Music Archive session with Jez Collins (open to all)
11:00 - Open Workshop (open to all)
11:30 - M3P Foundation Planning meeting (by invitation only)

12:30 Lunch Break

WORKSHOPS (ATRIUM)
14:00 - Workshop 1: Introduction level (open to all)
15:00 - Workshop 2: Intermediate level (open to all)
16:00 - Workshop 3: Advanced level (by invitation only)


SEMINARS/ROUNDTABLES (CINEMA)
14:00 - Open Discussion (open to all)

17:00 End of afternoon workshops


EVENING EVENTS

20:00 - Marc Galea - St James Cavalier Music Room

23:30 - South Central - Gianpula



For planning and other information, see below.

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].

A further informal gathering took place in Scarborough on Wednesday 23 February 2011 between Alex Grech, Tony Grimaud and Toni Sant.

In early April 2011, Michael Bugeja and Toni Sant met with Jean Pierre Debattista for preliminary discussions on the evening event for Saturday 3 June.


Possible Programme Elements

  • KEYNOTE: Why is it Important to Ensure Longevity on the M3P? - Alex Grech or Michael Bugeja or both


Networking Workshop/s

  • HANDS-ON SESSIONS: Registered users who are still to contribute: What's keep you...? - Tony Grimaud

Some weeks before the conference/workshops, registered users would be contacted via email to ask them about M3P, its usefulness, user-friendliness, their reasons for not/stopped contributing to M3P, etc. and at the same time , invite them to the workshops/conference. This will be done through Google Forms or Surverymonkey.com

WORKSHOP 1: What is a user page and how does it work?
WORKSHOP 2: I've already created a page. Now what?
WORKSHOP 3: Re-purposing newspaper articles for M3P pages.

See also "help that seemed to work the first time": [2]

Proposed Questionnaire (work in progress) [3]

Proposed Workshops Content (work in progress) [4]

Academic Papers/Presentations (PRELIMINARY)

  • PANEL: Technical considerations for memory projects
    • Saviour Zammit - University of Malta
    • Darren Stephens - University of Hull
  • ROUNDTABLE: Ensuring Longevity on Malta's Public Broadcasting Archives
    • Charles Farrugia - National Archives
    • Joseph Mizzi - PBS (tbc)
    • Glen Calleja - CCP
    • Andrew Alamango - Filfla Records

More tba

Other possible elements

  • ROUNDTABLE: Broadcasting the idea to Malta's Broadcasters - Tony Grimaud (recommended by Toni Sant)
  • DISCUSSION/INTERVIEWS: M3P Jiltaqa' Ma'... (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)


Evening events

  • FRIDAY

Evening session at the National Archives courtyard in in Rabat.

Toni Sant is discussing a special programme with Dominic Galea who will be accompanied by Sammy Galea, Doreen Galea and other family members and collaborators.

  • SATURDAY

Marc Galea will be launching his new CD in the Music Room as St James Cavalier immediately after the end of the conference proceedings (in the Cinema) and the workshops (in the Atrium).

There will also be a late evening gig/social event in collaboration with Reciprocal Records at V-Gen in Paceville. Possible collaborators include Pinkpube and/or Dubkey Records (tbc).

As this event coincides with the first night of the 2011 edition of Earth Garden and this will be kept in mind when we proceed with the actual programme for the evening to ensure we address a different audience for the one potentially attending the other event. Michael Bugeja is leading on this.

  • SATURDAY/SUNDAY

South Central will be launching their album Society of Spectacle at Gianpula late on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Part of their set will also be presented within the context of the M3P, as a post-conference party.

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 (with Steve Borg).

See also