Melissa Terras

Orcid: 0000-0001-6496-3197

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  • University of Edinburgh, College of Humanities and Social Science, UK
  • University College London, UK (former)


According to our database1, Melissa Terras authored at least 97 papers between 2001 and 2024.

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2024
Exploring Data Provenance in Handwritten Text Recognition Infrastructure: Sharing and Reusing Ground Truth Data, Referencing Models, and Acknowledging Contributions. Starting the Conversation on How We Could Get It Done.
J. Data Min. Digit. Humanit., 2024

Towards a right to repair for the Internet of Things: A review of legal and policy aspects.
Comput. Law Secur. Rev., 2024

The Right to Repair (R2R) Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things.
Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2024

Advancing frances: New Heritage Textual Ontology, Enhanced Knowledge Graphs, and Refined Search Capabilities.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 2024

Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2024

2023
frances: Cloud-Based Historical Text Mining with Deep Learning and Parallel Processing.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 2023

A speculative design for future handwritten text recognition: HTR use, and its impact on historical research and the digital record.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

Implicit Gender Inequality in Children's Picture Books: Evidence from a Text Mining Analysis of 200 Bestselling Chinese and British Titles.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

Observing semantic change in the representation of ethnic minorities through distant reading of museum catalogues.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

Collaboration Across the Archival and Computational Sciences to Address Legacies of Gender Bias in Descriptive Metadata.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

Exploring the borderlands. A revolutionary potential for DH.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

2022
The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2022

Beyond Explanation: A Case for Exploratory Text Visualizations of Non-Aggregated, Annotated Datasets.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLPerspectives@LREC 2022, 2022

2021
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts.
Big Data Soc., January, 2021

Text mining Mill: Computationally detecting influence in the writings of John Stuart Mill from library records.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2021

Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2021

Identifying the future direction of legal deposit in the United Kingdom: The Digital Library Futures approach.
J. Documentation, 2021

Extending defoe for the Efficient Analysis of Historical Texts at Scale.
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2021

2020
The visual side of digital humanities: a survey on topics, researchers, and epistemic cultures.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2020

How open is OpenGLAM? Identifying barriers to commercial and non-commercial reuse of digitised art images.
J. Documentation, 2020

Situated Data, Situated Systems: A Methodology to Engage with Power Relations in Natural Language Processing Research.
CoRR, 2020

Introducing an Automated Pipeline for a Browser-based, City-scale Mobile 4D VR Application Based on Historical Images.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2020

2019
Accessing Russian culture online: The scope of digitization in museums across Russia.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2019

Digital Editions of Text: Surveying User Requirements in the Digital Humanities.
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2019

Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition.
J. Documentation, 2019

How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers?
Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019, 2019

defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on eScience, 2019

2018
Enabling complex analysis of large-scale digital collections: humanities research, high-performance computing, and transforming access to British Library digital collections.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2018

'Making such bargain': Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2018

Reaping the Benefits of Digitisation: Pilot study exploring revenue generation from digitised collections through technological innovation.
Proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, 2018

Digital Humanities Integration and Management Challenges in Advanced Imaging Across Institutions and Technologies Nondestructive Imaging of Egyptian Mummy Papyrus Cartonnage.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2018

The History and Context of the Digital Humanities in Russia.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2018

Legal Deposit Web Archives and the Digital Humanities: A Universe of Lost Opportunity?
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2018

2017
Engaging the museum space: Mobilizing visitor engagement with digital content creation.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2017

Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2017

The value of critical destruction: Evaluating multispectral image processing methods for the analysis of primary historical texts.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2017

Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: contemporary metaphors for the digital library.
Int. J. Digit. Libr., 2017

What people study when they study Tumblr: Classifying Tumblr-related academic research.
J. Documentation, 2017

Accessing Russian Culture Online: The scope of digitisation in museums across Russia.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2017

Uncovering ‘hidden' contributions to the history of Digital Humanities: the Index Thomisticus' female keypunch operators.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2017

Reverse Engineering the First Humanities Computing Center.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2017

2016
Mapping the Bentham Corpus.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2016

Enabling Complex Analysis of Large-Scale Digital Collections: Humanities Research, High Performance Computing, and transforming access to British Library Digital Collections.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2016

Museum Digitization Practices Across Russia: Survey and Web Site Exploration Results.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2016

Quality Matters: Diversity and the Digital Humanities in 2016.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2016

2015
Opening Access to collections: the making and using of open digitised cultural content.
Online Inf. Rev., 2015

Introduction.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2015

TRAViz: A Visualization for Variant Graphs.
Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2015

2014
Crowdsourcing Bentham: Beyond the Traditional Boundaries of Academic History.
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2014

2013
The myth of the new: Mass digitization, distant reading, and the future of the book.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2013

What do people study when they study Twitter? Classifying Twitter related academic papers.
J. Documentation, 2013

Interactive Exploration and Flattening of Deformed Historical Documents.
Comput. Graph. Forum, 2013

Demonstrating data using storyboard visualization tool.
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), 2013

3D reconstruction for damaged documents: imaging of the great parchment book.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, 2013

Text Theory, Digital Document, and the Practice of Digital Editions.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2013

4Humanities: Designing Digital Advocacy.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2013

Textal: a text analysis smartphone app for Digital Humanities.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2013

Reverse Image Lookup, Paintings, Digitisation, Reuse.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2013

Great Parchment Book project.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2013

Multispectral Imaging of Degraded Parchment.
Proceedings of the Computational Color Imaging - 4th International Workshop, 2013

2012
Experiments with the internet of things in museum space: QRator.
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2012

Cultural heritage destruction: Documenting parchment degradation via multispectral imaging.
Proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, 2012

Engaging the Museum Space: Mobilising Visitor Engagement with Digital Content Creation.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2012

Measuring impact and use: scholarly information-seeking behaviour.
Proceedings of the Evaluating and measuring the value, 2012

2011
The Digital Wunderkammer: Flickr as a Platform for Amateur Cultural and Heritage Content.
Libr. Trends, 2011

Present, not voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon: closing plenary speech, Digital Humanities 2010.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2011

Enabled backchannel: conference Twitter use by digital humanists.
J. Documentation, 2011

UCLDH: Big Tent Digital Humanities in Practice.
Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2011

Enhancing Museum Narratives: Tales of Things and UCL's Grant Museum.
Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2011

2010
Digital curiosities: resource creation via amateur digitization.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2010

Web Accessibility, Practical Advice for the Library and Information Professional.
J. Documentation, 2010

Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon.
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2010

Pointless Babble or Enabled Backchannel: Conference Use of Twitter by Digital Humanists.
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2010

2009
iTrench: A study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2009

Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2009

Documentation and the users of digital resources in the humanities.
J. Documentation, 2009

The Potential and Problems in using High Performance Computing in the Arts and Humanities: the Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings (ReACH) Project.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2009

Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Philology.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2009

Acknowledgements and Dedications.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2009

2008
Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities.
Program, 2008

If You Build It Will They Come? The LAIRAH Study: Quantifying the Use of Online Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Statistical Analysis of User Log Data.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2008

The master builders: LAIRAH research on good practice in the construction of digital humanities projects.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2008

Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage.Lindsay MacDonald (ed.).
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2008

Permanent Pixels: Building Blocks for the Longevity of Digital Surrogates of Historical Photographs.René van Horik.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2008

'Grand Theft Archive': A Quantitative Analysis of the State of Computer Game Preservation.
Int. J. Digit. Curation, 2008

2007
Challenge and Change in the Information Society.Susan Hornby and Zoë Clarke (eds).
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2007

Qualitative Research for the Information Professional. A Practical Handbook. Second Edition. G. E. Gorman and Peter Clayton.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2007

Digitizing Collections. Strategic Issues for the Information ManagerLorna M. Hughes.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2007

Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions.
J. Documentation, 2007

DHQ in the Public Eye.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2007

Welcome to Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Digit. Humanit. Q., 2007

Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project.
Proceedings of the Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna, 2007

2006
Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse 'Humanities Computing'.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2006

Interpreting the image: using advanced computational techniques to read the Vindolanda texts.
Aslib Proc., 2006

2005
Reading the Readers: Modelling Complex Humanities Processes to Build Cognitive Systems.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2005

2004
Downs and Acrosses: Textual Markup on a Stroke Level.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2004

2001
Another Suitcase, Another Student Hall - Where Are We Going To? What ACH/ALLC 2001 Can Tell Us About the Current Direction of Humanities Computing.
Lit. Linguistic Comput., 2001


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