Assoc. Prof. Dr Ingrida Kelpšienė

Publications

Scientific publications (eLABa)

• Kelpšienė, I. Emocinis reaktyvumas ir proaktyvus veikimas bendruomenių paveldo praktikose Lietuvoje (2025). Information & Media, 101, 102-121.
  https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2025.101.7
• Kelpšienė, I., Luengo, P., & Dallas, C. (2024). Mining Social Media for Museum Quality Evaluation. In Babic D (Eds.), International Perspectives on Museum Management (pp. 79-103).
  Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003000082-10/mining-social-media-museum-quality-evaluation-ingrida-kelp%C5%A1ien%C4%97-pedro-luengo-costis-dallas
• Dallas, C. & Kelpšienė, I. (2024). A Social media archive for digital memory research. In S. Gebeil & J.-C. Peyssard (Eds.), Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age (pp. 321-340). Firenze University Press. https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/a-social-media-archive-for-digital-memory-research/14993
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I., Laužikas, R., & Gribovskis, J. (2024). Socialinių tinklų tyrimų duomenų archyvo funkciniai reikalavimai, projektavimas ir įgyvendinimas. Information & Media, 100, 2–37. https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2024.100.2
• Kirtiklis, K., Laužikas, R., Kelpšienė, I. & Dallas, C. An Ontology of Semiotic Activity and Epistemic Figuration of Heritage, Memory and Identity Practices on Social Network Sites (2023). SAGE Open, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231187367
• Kelpšienė, I. & Dallas, C. Battle or Ballet? Metaphors Archaeological Facebook Administrators Live By (2023). Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 10 (2), 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/20518196.2022.2157566
• Kelpšienė, I., Armakauskaitė, D., Denisenko, V; Kirtiklis, K., Laužikas, R., Stonytė, R., Murinienė, L. & Dallas, C. (2023). Difficult heritage on social network sites: An integrative review. New Media & Society, 25(11), 3137-3164. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221122186
• Kelpšienė, I. Dalyvaujamasis paveldas socialiniuose tinkluose: pagrindinių teorinių sąvokų aiškinimas (2021). Informacijos mokslai, 91, 100-119. https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2021.91.54
• Maryl, M., Dallas, C., Edmond, J., Labov, J., Kelpšienė, I., Doran, M., Kolodzjejska, M. & Grabowska, K. A. (2020). Case Study Protocol for Meta-Research into Digital Practices in the Humanities. Special issue: Lab & Slack: Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(3). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000477/000477.html
• Kelpšienė, I. Exploring Archaeological Organizations’ Communication on Facebook: A Review of MOLA’s Facebook Page (2019). Advances in Archaeological Practice, 7 (2), 203–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2019.9
• Kelpšienė, I. Defining scholarly practices, methods and tools in the Lithuanian digital humanities research community (2018). Digital Humanities Quarterly, 12 (4). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/12/4/000401/000401.html
• Laužikas, R., Dallas, C., Thomas, S., Kelpšienė, I., Huvila, I., Luengo, P., Nobre, H., Toumpouri, M. & Vaitkevičius, V. (2018). Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field. Open Archaeology, 4(1), 350-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0022
• Dallas C., Chatzidiakou N., Benardou A., Clivaz C., Cunningham J., Dabek M., Garrido P., Gonzalez-Blanco E., Hadalin J., Hughes L., Immenhauser B., Joly A., Kelpšienė I., Kozak M., Kuzman K. , Lukin M., Marinski I., Maryl M., Owain R., Papaki E., Schneider G., Scholger W., Schreibman S., Schubert Z., Tasovac T., Thaller M., Wciślik P., Werla M. & Zebec T. (2017). European survey on scholarly practices and digital needs in the arts and humanities Digital Methods and Practices Observatory Working Group (DiMPO): Survey highlights. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01449002/
• Laužikas, R., Vosyliūtė (Kelpšienė), I. & Jaronis J. (2015). Beyond the space: the LoCloud Historical Place Names micro-service. CAA2015. Keep the Revolution Going: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, France, 1, 235 – 240. ISBN 9781784913380. https://caa-international.org/publications/proceedings/bibliography/
• Laužikas, R. & Vosyliūtė (Kelpšienė), I. Kultūros paveldo ir lituanistinių mokslo duomenų skaitmeninimas Lietuvoje: 2011 metų situacija (2012). Informacijos mokslai, 60, 96 – 115. https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2012.0.1666

Research Projects

• „Lietuvos visuomenės stiprinimas pasitelkiant paveldo bendruomenes: iššūkiai ir galimybės“ (2023 – 2026)
• „Transforming data re-use in archaeology“ (TEtrARCHs) (2022 – 2025)
• „Public History for Stronger Europe“ (EUROPAST) (2022 – 2025)
• „Connective digital memory in borderlands: a mixed-methods study of cultural identity, heritage communication and digital curation on social networks” (CONNECTIVE) (2020 – 2023)
• „E-CURATORS – Pervasive Digital Curation Activities, Objects and Infrastructures in Archaeological Research and Communication“ (2019 – 2023)
• „Visuomenės poreikius atitinkančios virtualios kultūrinės erdvės vystymas“ (2019 – 2021)
• „Europeana Archaeology“ (2019 – 2020)
• „Europeana Food and Drink“ (2014 – 2016)
• „Local content in a Europeana cloud“ (LoCloud) (2013 – 2016)
• „Virtuali istorinė Lietuva: Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė“ (2011 – 2012)
• „HISTORIUS-P: Lituanistinių mokslo tyrimų ir paveldo infrastruktūrų tinklo kūrimas: projektavimo fazė“ (2010 – 2011)
• „Connecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana“ (CARARE) (2010 – 2013)

COST actions

• COST action (CA20105) „Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change“ (SlowMEMO) (2021 – 2025)
• COST action (CA18128) „Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age“ (2019 – 2022)
• COST action (CA16213) „New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent“ (NEP4Dissent) (2017 – 2021)
• COST action (CA15201) „Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment“ (Arkwork) (2016 – 2020)

Presentations in scientific conferences

• Laužikas, R., Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė, I., Kelpšienė, I. and Šuminas, A. Digital Archaeology Data Archives as a Source of Creative Inspiration. International Conference on Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2025: Digital Horizons. Athens, Greece. May 5-9, 2025
• Dallas, C. and Kelpšienė, I. Remembering the 1990s on Lithuanian social media through the affiliative power of objects. European cultural memory in its digitalization – inventing cultural memory in the 21st century? Graz, Austria. November 6-7, 2024.
• Laužikas, R., Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė, I., Kelpšienė, I. and Šuminas, A. Archaeology data and non-archaeological professionals: Why do people need archaeology? 30th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) conference. Rome, Italy. August 28-31, 2024
• Kelpšienė, I., Dallas, C. Shifting Lithuanian identity: contemporary perceptions of the 90s on social network sites. Cultural Heterologies and Democracy II. Tallinn, Estonia. June 26-28, 2024.
• Kelpšienė, I. Virtualios bendruomenės ir dalyvaujamojo paveldo apraiškos "Facebook" socialiniame tinkle. Projekto “Lietuvos visuomenės stiprinimas pasitelkiant paveldo bendruomenes: iššūkiai ir galimybės” konferencija „Bendruomenių ir paveldo sąveikos“. Vilnius. June 7, 2024.
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I., Laužikas, R. Digital resources, methods and tools in the research lifecycle: the Connective Digital Memory in the Borderlands project (Poster). Baltic DH Forum. Riga, Latvia. April 25-26, 2024.
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I., Laužikas, R. and Gribovskis, J. An information framework for research on difficult heritage, memory and identity practices on social network sites. Information Science Trends (IST) 2023: Information Science Perspectives on Documenting Processes and Practices. Uppsala, Sweden. June 20-21, 2023.
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I. Representing and analysing mediated memory through a semantic social media web archive. Exploring the Archived Web During a
• Highly Transformative Age (RESAW 2023: A Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials). Marseille, France. June 5-6, 2023.
• Dallas, C., Laužikas, R., Kelpšienė, I. Social digital memory in the borderlands: an ontology-based digital humanities approach to analyzing semiotic activity on social network sites. 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 1st RC33 Regional Conference Latin America: Brazil in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods”. São Paulo, Brasil. September 8-10, 2022.
• Kelpšienė, I., Dallas, C. Archaeological communities on Facebook: metaphors admins live by. On shifting grounds – the study of archaeological practices in a changing world. Rethymnon, Greece. October, 3-5, 2019.
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I. What motivates, and what troubles, archaeology-related Facebook administrators? Results from a focus group and interviewing study. Public Archaeology Twitter conference #PATC4. September 5, 2019.
• Laužikas, R. Dallas, C., Thomas, S., Kelpšienė, I., Huvila, I., Luengo, P., Nobre, H., Toumpouri, M., Vaitkevičius, V. How and why people today engage with the archaeological heritage. Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana (CARARE conference). Amersfoort, Netherlands. June 28, 2019.
• Kelpšienė, I., Dallas, C. Archaeology and social networking sites: a systematic literature review and conceptual analysis of topics, questions and approaches (Poster). The 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA 2018). Tübingen, Germany. March, 19-23, 2018.
• Dallas, C., Kelpšienė, I. Archaeological interactions between amateurs and professionals on Facebook. The 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Mastricht, Netherlands. August, 30 – September 3, 2017.
• Kelpšienė, I., Dallas, C., Davidovic, A., Hugget, J., Huvila, I., Laužikas, R., Paliou, E., Pálsson, G., Thomas, S. ARKWORK: Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment (Poster). DARIAH Annual Event. Berlin, Germany. April, 26-27, 2017.
• Vosyliūtė, I. Archaeology in social media: users, content and communication on Facebook. International Conference on Digital Humanities 2014 (DH2014). Lausanne, Switzerland. July 7-12, 2014.
• Vosyliūtė, I. Communicating and interpreting archaeological heritage in social media: passion for archaeology on Facebook. International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2014 (CAA2014). Paris, France. April 22-25, 2014.
• Vosyliūtė, I. DARIAH-EU: towards sustainable digital research infrastructure in the Arts and Humanities. International OpenAire workshop „Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures“. Vilnius. 2013.
• Vosyliūtė, I. Lietuvos archeologija Europeanoje: CARARE projekto patirtis. Nacionalinis seminaras „Skaitmeninė atmintis virtualioje erdvėje: projektų patirtys ir perspektyvos“ (SAVE2012). Vilnius. 2012.
• Vosyliūtė, I. Connecting Lithuanian archeology to CARARE: our experience. CARARE final policy conference. Copenhagen, Denmark. 2012.
• Laužikas, R., Vaitkevičius, V. ir Vosyliūtė, I. XXI a. Lietuvos archeologijos archyvas, arba ką paliksim po saves? Naujausi archeologiniai tyrinėjimai Lietuvoje. Šiauliai. 2010.

Academic Qualification

• Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Communication and Information Sciences (2021). Dissertation: “The Participatory Heritage: A Multiple-Case Study of Lithuanian Grassroots Cultural Heritage Communities on Facebook.”
• Vilnius University, Faculty of History. Master’s degree in History and Cultural Heritage (2008).
• Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics. Bachelor’s degree in Economics (2009).
• Vilnius University, Faculty of History. Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology (2005).

Qualification Advancements

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Taught Subjects

• Communicating Science and Innovation in the Digital Age (EN) (since 2026 m.)
• Users and Customers in Digital Age (EN) (since 2026 m.)
• Foundations of Digital Communication and Networked Media (EN) (since 2025 m.)
• Mokslo komunikacijos praktikumas (LT) (since 2025 m.)
• Paveldo ir mokslo komunikacija (LT) (since 2025 m.)
• Communication in Social Media (EN) (since 2022 m.)
• Audiovizualinės medijos (LT) (2022 – 2023)
• Inovatyvi kultūros komunikacija (LT) (2015 – 2016)
• Elektronines informacijos paslaugos (LT) (2014 – 2015)
• Projektų valdymas (LT) (2011 – 2012)

Expert and other activities

• Expert (evaluator) for European Commission Horizon Europe and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program proposals.
• Expert (researcher) in the national study on intangible heritage: Užpelkis, M., Kelpšienė, I., Tumėnas, V., Pranskūnaitė–Užpelkienė, L. Study on the State of Preservation and Activation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Opportunities for Its Improvement (2022).
• Expert (evaluator) for the Lithuanian Young Scientists Union competition “Best Master’s Thesis” (2024–2025).