ŽIBURIO ARCHYVAS · TEAM
The Team
The Žiburio Archive is built by a small team committed to the long-term preservation of Lithuanian diaspora cultural memory.
LEADERSHIP & COORDINATION
Vilija Jurgutis
ARCHIVE DIRECTOR · SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Vilija founded the Žiburio Archive digitization initiative and leads the project as a preservation effort of Žiburio lituanistinė mokykla. She oversees the program's institutional direction, methodology, and long-term strategy.
Sigita Jurgutis
ENTITY GRAPH CURATOR · SR. STUDENT ARCHIVIST
Sigita serves as Entity Graph Curator for the Žiburio Archive, responsible for transforming raw catalog data into a structured knowledge graph of Lithuanian diaspora history. She resolves entity duplicates, validates relationships between people, organizations, places, and events, and ensures that every connection in the graph is accurate and culturally grounded.
She also leads the student intern team, overseeing quality and consistency across all cataloged submissions.
SKAITMENINIAI KNYGNEŠIAI — YOUTH COHORT · 2025–26
Graduates of Žiburio lituanistinė mokykla — high school students preparing for college — who sort, identify, and photograph diaspora publications, contributing them to the archive's cataloging pipeline with permanent credit on the records they bring forward. About the internship →
All cataloged books and their contributors are listed in the Contributors record.