Melissa Terras
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 375013 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Terras |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Terras |
| ASSINATURA | TERRAS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6496-3197 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Mapping the creative industries
This paper examines mappings of the UK’s creative industries to assess economic impact, workforce size, and geographic distribution. Case studies from the Creative Cluster Programme (2018–2024) are analysed. Evidence is drawn from the case studies of Scotland and Wales. It presents results from the mapping processes undertaken in Scotland by Creative Informatics (https://creativeinformatics.org/), and South of Scotland Enterprise, as well as thos…
Supporting innovation in the creative industries through data reporting
Despite the economic and social significance of the Creative Industries (CI) in the UK, the mechanisms of innovation and research and development (R&D) within the CI remain poorly understood. Using innovation studies as a framework and undertaking a case study of the £56m Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) (2018–2023) as part of the UK's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), this article evaluates reporting and data collection act…
Evaluating events data for cultural analytics
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Creative and Cultural Industries can be difficult to quantify. Metadata about events (theatre productions, music and comedy gigs, sporting fixtures, days out, and more) are an untapped resource for cultural analytics that can be used as a proxy metric for financial and social impact. This article uses a sample of large-scale cultural events data from UK industry providers Data Thistle to ask: how can ev…
Data ethics in creative industries R&D
There is a growing need for comprehensive data ethics guidance tailored to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the creative industries that are creating new goods and services with digital components. Although ethical use of data is now critical, there is little prior research on how best to support responsible digital innovation within the creative economy. Utilising a case study approach focusing on the UK activities of the large-scale…
Creative Informatics
This positioning paper reflects on the idea of ‘the university’ as a creative industries intermediary, through a case study of the Creative Informatics programme. It asks where ‘the university’ fits within the context of the creative industries and creative economy, and its value in that ecosystem. Creative Informatics was a five-year R&D programme (2018–2024), part of the UK-wide Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) funded by the UK's A…
God on the Stage
This comparative study locates Frederick Douglass’s (1818–95) religiosity within his published autobiographies as well as his 1886–7 unpublished travel diary – taken as part of the Library of Congress’s Frederick Douglass Papers (1841–64). R-scripted text analysis of Douglass’s expressed faith is foregrounded through the generation of clean digital transcriptions using handwritten text recognition (HTR), the process of converting non-consistent i…
Are Digital Humanities platforms facilitating sufficient diversity in research? A study of the Transkribus Scholarship Programme
To what extent do Digital Humanities (DH) platforms support access to diverse user cohorts? We take, as a case study, the Automated Text Recognition (ATR) platform Transkribus and its Transkribus Scholarship Programme (TSP), which provides free processing credits to eligible users. Using a mixed methods approach we address the following questions: What are the demographics of those using the TSP scheme? What work is enabled by such a scheme? How …
Still on the same page
As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little concern shown about gender diversity in the Chinese picture book market (which has only developed in the…
Cultural analytics in the UK
This article investigates the potential for novel research utilising data generated by the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in the UK, focussing on the long tail of metadata associated with the UK's rich cultural events landscape. We conducted semistructured interviews with 29 researchers and related domain experts to ascertain: (1) How cultural data is valued; (2) The landscape of cultural data; (3) How UK research can make better use of c…
The Culture of the Very Rich and Very Poor
Digital approaches to Jewish Studies allow collecting data from multiple sources. This enlarges the picture, makes our understanding of historical experiences more complete, and triggers further research questions. This chapter compares samples of artworks from digital online collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Russian State Catalogue of Museum Collections in the Russian Federation. We show that the difference in the…
The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities
Academic conferences are considered central to the dissemination of research and play a key role in the prestige systems of academia. And yet the organization of these, and the power systems they maintain, have been little discussed. What is a conference supposed to achieve? Who and what is it for? The annual Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO)’s Digital Humanities conference is a central occasion in the digital humanities academic…
A hefty dose of lemons
When the pandemic began to affect the performance world, both festival artists and producers started to adopt creative approaches to moving their work online. In the study presented here, we focus on the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which offered a unique opportunity to understand how performers coped with the enforced switch to digital. Underpinning the Fringe Festival ethos is the attitude of experimentation, and we propose that there is muc…
Understanding the application of handwritten text recognition technology in heritage contexts
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology is now a mature machine learning tool, becoming integrated in the digitisation processes of libraries and archives, speeding up the transcription of primary sources and facilitating full text searching and analysis of historic texts at scale. However, research into how HTR is changing our information environment is scant. This paper presents a systematic literature review regarding how researchers are…
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing upon valuation studies, we reflect on both the theory and practicalities of using mass-digitised heritage content as an economic driver, stressing the need to consider the complexity of commercial-based…
Of global reach yet of situated contexts
A large literature addresses the processes, circumstances and motivations that have given rise to archives. These questions are increasingly being asked of digital archives, too. Here, we examine the complex interplay of institutional, intellectual, economic, technical, practical and social factors that have shaped decisions about the inclusion and exclusion of digitised newspapers in and from online archives. We do so by undertaking and analysin…
Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage
Not Adopted
This article is a discussion of how digitizing and disseminating Orphan Works in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector could have the potential to significantly reframe collections across audiences and institutions in the United Kingdom and across the world. Orphan Works (those works protected by copyright and for which the copyright holder is unable to be identified or, even if identified, cannot be located) make up a sig…
A Decade in Digital Humanities
The paper reviews the meaning and development of digital humanities giving the ex-amples of work published in various DH areas. The paper discusses what using these technologies means for the humanities, giving recommendations that can be useful across the sector
Crowdsourcing Bentham
The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative 2 (Transcribe Bentham for short) is an award-winning crowdsourced manuscript transcription initiative which engages students, researchers, and the general public with the thought and life of the philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), by making available digital images of his manuscripts for anyone, anywhere in the world, to transcribe. Since its launch in September 2010, over 2.6 million …
The Mobile Story
What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways.…
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
Image to Interpretation
© Melissa M. Terras 2006. All rights reserved. The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from artificial…
A Virtual Tomb for Kelvingrove
The use of computers as an educational resource in museums is becoming increasingly popular as more and more institutions realise that multimedia displays are very successful in imparting a broad variety of information. Although three-dimensional reconstructions of sites and structures have been used in archaeology for many years, the majority of museum computer installations have dealt with two-dimensional media because of the costs, equipment a…
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing upon valuation studies, we reflect on both the theory and practicalities of using mass-digitised heritage content as an economic driver, stressing the need to consider the complexity of commercial-based…
Of global reach yet of situated contexts
A large literature addresses the processes, circumstances and motivations that have given rise to archives. These questions are increasingly being asked of digital archives, too. Here, we examine the complex interplay of institutional, intellectual, economic, technical, practical and social factors that have shaped decisions about the inclusion and exclusion of digitised newspapers in and from online archives. We do so by undertaking and analysin…
Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
Image to Interpretation
© Melissa M. Terras 2006. All rights reserved. The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from artificial…
Cultural analytics in the UK
This article investigates the potential for novel research utilising data generated by the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in the UK, focussing on the long tail of metadata associated with the UK's rich cultural events landscape. We conducted semistructured interviews with 29 researchers and related domain experts to ascertain: (1) How cultural data is valued; (2) The landscape of cultural data; (3) How UK research can make better use of c…
Not Adopted
This article is a discussion of how digitizing and disseminating Orphan Works in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector could have the potential to significantly reframe collections across audiences and institutions in the United Kingdom and across the world. Orphan Works (those works protected by copyright and for which the copyright holder is unable to be identified or, even if identified, cannot be located) make up a sig…
A Decade in Digital Humanities
The paper reviews the meaning and development of digital humanities giving the ex-amples of work published in various DH areas. The paper discusses what using these technologies means for the humanities, giving recommendations that can be useful across the sector
A Virtual Tomb for Kelvingrove
The use of computers as an educational resource in museums is becoming increasingly popular as more and more institutions realise that multimedia displays are very successful in imparting a broad variety of information. Although three-dimensional reconstructions of sites and structures have been used in archaeology for many years, the majority of museum computer installations have dealt with two-dimensional media because of the costs, equipment a…
A Virtual Tomb for Kelvingrove
The use of computers as an educational resource in museums is becoming increasingly popular as more and more institutions realise that multimedia displays are very successful in imparting a broad variety of information. Although three-dimensional reconstructions of sites and structures have been used in archaeology for many years, the majority of museum computer installations have dealt with two-dimensional media because of the costs, equipment a…
Image to Interpretation
© Melissa M. Terras 2006. All rights reserved. The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from artificial…
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
The Mobile Story
What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways.…
Crowdsourcing Bentham
The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative 2 (Transcribe Bentham for short) is an award-winning crowdsourced manuscript transcription initiative which engages students, researchers, and the general public with the thought and life of the philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), by making available digital images of his manuscripts for anyone, anywhere in the world, to transcribe. Since its launch in September 2010, over 2.6 million …
A Decade in Digital Humanities
The paper reviews the meaning and development of digital humanities giving the ex-amples of work published in various DH areas. The paper discusses what using these technologies means for the humanities, giving recommendations that can be useful across the sector
Not Adopted
This article is a discussion of how digitizing and disseminating Orphan Works in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector could have the potential to significantly reframe collections across audiences and institutions in the United Kingdom and across the world. Orphan Works (those works protected by copyright and for which the copyright holder is unable to be identified or, even if identified, cannot be located) make up a sig…
Of global reach yet of situated contexts
A large literature addresses the processes, circumstances and motivations that have given rise to archives. These questions are increasingly being asked of digital archives, too. Here, we examine the complex interplay of institutional, intellectual, economic, technical, practical and social factors that have shaped decisions about the inclusion and exclusion of digitised newspapers in and from online archives. We do so by undertaking and analysin…
Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing upon valuation studies, we reflect on both the theory and practicalities of using mass-digitised heritage content as an economic driver, stressing the need to consider the complexity of commercial-based…
The Culture of the Very Rich and Very Poor
Digital approaches to Jewish Studies allow collecting data from multiple sources. This enlarges the picture, makes our understanding of historical experiences more complete, and triggers further research questions. This chapter compares samples of artworks from digital online collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Russian State Catalogue of Museum Collections in the Russian Federation. We show that the difference in the…
The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities
Academic conferences are considered central to the dissemination of research and play a key role in the prestige systems of academia. And yet the organization of these, and the power systems they maintain, have been little discussed. What is a conference supposed to achieve? Who and what is it for? The annual Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO)’s Digital Humanities conference is a central occasion in the digital humanities academic…
A hefty dose of lemons
When the pandemic began to affect the performance world, both festival artists and producers started to adopt creative approaches to moving their work online. In the study presented here, we focus on the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which offered a unique opportunity to understand how performers coped with the enforced switch to digital. Underpinning the Fringe Festival ethos is the attitude of experimentation, and we propose that there is muc…
Understanding the application of handwritten text recognition technology in heritage contexts
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology is now a mature machine learning tool, becoming integrated in the digitisation processes of libraries and archives, speeding up the transcription of primary sources and facilitating full text searching and analysis of historic texts at scale. However, research into how HTR is changing our information environment is scant. This paper presents a systematic literature review regarding how researchers are…
Still on the same page
As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little concern shown about gender diversity in the Chinese picture book market (which has only developed in the…
Cultural analytics in the UK
This article investigates the potential for novel research utilising data generated by the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in the UK, focussing on the long tail of metadata associated with the UK's rich cultural events landscape. We conducted semistructured interviews with 29 researchers and related domain experts to ascertain: (1) How cultural data is valued; (2) The landscape of cultural data; (3) How UK research can make better use of c…
Creative Informatics
This positioning paper reflects on the idea of ‘the university’ as a creative industries intermediary, through a case study of the Creative Informatics programme. It asks where ‘the university’ fits within the context of the creative industries and creative economy, and its value in that ecosystem. Creative Informatics was a five-year R&D programme (2018–2024), part of the UK-wide Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) funded by the UK's A…
God on the Stage
This comparative study locates Frederick Douglass’s (1818–95) religiosity within his published autobiographies as well as his 1886–7 unpublished travel diary – taken as part of the Library of Congress’s Frederick Douglass Papers (1841–64). R-scripted text analysis of Douglass’s expressed faith is foregrounded through the generation of clean digital transcriptions using handwritten text recognition (HTR), the process of converting non-consistent i…
Are Digital Humanities platforms facilitating sufficient diversity in research? A study of the Transkribus Scholarship Programme
To what extent do Digital Humanities (DH) platforms support access to diverse user cohorts? We take, as a case study, the Automated Text Recognition (ATR) platform Transkribus and its Transkribus Scholarship Programme (TSP), which provides free processing credits to eligible users. Using a mixed methods approach we address the following questions: What are the demographics of those using the TSP scheme? What work is enabled by such a scheme? How …
Mapping the creative industries
This paper examines mappings of the UK’s creative industries to assess economic impact, workforce size, and geographic distribution. Case studies from the Creative Cluster Programme (2018–2024) are analysed. Evidence is drawn from the case studies of Scotland and Wales. It presents results from the mapping processes undertaken in Scotland by Creative Informatics (https://creativeinformatics.org/), and South of Scotland Enterprise, as well as thos…
Supporting innovation in the creative industries through data reporting
Despite the economic and social significance of the Creative Industries (CI) in the UK, the mechanisms of innovation and research and development (R&D) within the CI remain poorly understood. Using innovation studies as a framework and undertaking a case study of the £56m Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) (2018–2023) as part of the UK's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), this article evaluates reporting and data collection act…
Evaluating events data for cultural analytics
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Creative and Cultural Industries can be difficult to quantify. Metadata about events (theatre productions, music and comedy gigs, sporting fixtures, days out, and more) are an untapped resource for cultural analytics that can be used as a proxy metric for financial and social impact. This article uses a sample of large-scale cultural events data from UK industry providers Data Thistle to ask: how can ev…
Data ethics in creative industries R&D
There is a growing need for comprehensive data ethics guidance tailored to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the creative industries that are creating new goods and services with digital components. Although ethical use of data is now critical, there is little prior research on how best to support responsible digital innovation within the creative economy. Utilising a case study approach focusing on the UK activities of the large-scale…
Computer Science (13 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · Creative industries (6 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 obras) · Cultural heritage (5 obras) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras)