Definition Collection and exploration of documents on local knowledge, research on community memories, the totality of information on a specific place and of the related documents. It may be a community activity or a professional one performed in libraries, museums and archives, looking for, collecting, systematising, exploring, conveying and publishing information and documents. Purpose ofContinue reading
Definition Exploration and preservation of local values is an extensive community process based on local cooperation and governed by [1] Act XXX of 2012 on Hungarikums and Government Decree 114/2013(IV. 16.) on Hungarian National Values, providing for the establishment of a local/regional value registry and of a value registry committee. The exploration of values servesContinue reading
Village books, calendars Definition A community calendar is a printed publication serving the exploration and preservation of local memories of the recent past in a diary form, helping the development of the communal collaboration of locals, written and edited by the locals. The calendar makes readers aware that the events that happen to them andContinue reading
Definition The concept of the intangible cultural heritage (French: patrimoine culturel immatériel) relies on the words intangible/immatériel to express its non-objectified nature. The intangible cultural heritage is a traditional and living community identity, perpetually recreated and handed down in words and in practice. The intangible cultural activity is never static: it is such knowledge thatContinue reading
Definition A knowledge pool is a list of names and addresses of local human resources – experience, talent, knowledge and interest – represented independently, as part of a knowledge pool or in another local publication such as a calendar, village book, yearbook, newsletter, programme booklet, noticeboard, etc. The knowledge pool provides for a direct formulation,Continue reading
Definition Study groups are small, self-organizing groups whose participants meet regularly to follow a study plan they have designed, to discuss certain topics, or to conduct cultural activities. The work of study groups is based on the experience of individual members, who aim to learn from one another and to think together about a subjectContinue reading