Initial work on the Malta music memory project : and its connections with oral history

Abstract

In 2009 I wrote an article for the Journal of Music, Technology and Education outlining plans to build a collaborative multimedia database of Maltese music and associated arts. In that article, I explained that the proposed collaborative project would rely on wiki technology to get going with capturing a living archive of past, present and future works of interest in connection to music and associated arts from and in Malta. I also identified various critical issues related to intellectual property rights, preservation policies and techniques, technical infrastructure strategies, and other similar topics, which need to be tackled through specially-developed postgraduate research studentships. Now, two years later, its time to assess what has happened in the initial attempts to implement the plans in the original outline.