Events 20 October 2026
20 November in Rykantai: digitisation workshop "Community memory online?" (in Lithuanian)
Who decides which local history is preserved and made available online? Usually archives, museums and researchers. Yet many of the most important memories stay at home: in family albums, letters and people's stories.
The workshop "Bendruomenės atmintis online?" (Community memory online?) is about how communities can create and keep their own digital heritage. Participants will get to know citizen science and participatory methods, see examples of projects created by communities themselves, and hear from the Rykantai community about its own experience.
Key facts
- Date: Friday, 20 November 2026
- Time: 11:00-14:00
- Place: Rykantų paštas, Rykantai
- Participation: free, registration required
- Language: Lithuanian
- Getting there: trains from Vilnius and Kaunas arrive in Rykantai at 10:59, the return train leaves at 14:24
Programme
- 11:00-11:15 Arrival, coffee and introductions
- 11:15-11:40 Rykantai and why it is wonderful. Jurgita Ribinskaitė Glatzer, head of Rykantų paštas
- 11:40-12:05 Citizen science and heritage digitisation: what is it and why should I care? Dr. Monika Mačiulienė, director of the Lithuanian Citizen Science Association
- 12:05-13:20 Scenario workshop: an online community time capsule
- 13:20-13:50 Group presentations and wrap-up
Designing a community time capsule
In the second part, participants work in groups of 3-5. Each group gets a scenario and plans an online community time capsule: a digital place where the community itself collects and keeps its photos, letters and stories. Groups will work out who fills the capsule, how material is digitised and where it is kept, who opens it and when, and what the first step will be. The discussion will also cover how such joint work can strengthen the community itself.
More about Rykantai's experience: the Rykantai time machine (in Lithuanian).
Workshop programme (PDF, in Lithuanian)
The event is organised within the DIGICHer project, funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme (grant agreement No. 101132481), together with Rykantų paštas and VILNIUS TECH.