About our staff
Professor Melissa Terras
MA MSc DPhil CLTHE FCLIP FBCS CITP FHEA
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage
- Email: m.terras@ed.ac.uk
- 3.06, 56 George Square, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JU
Roles
Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Digital Scholarship
Biography
Melissa Terras is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh‘s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, which she joined in October 2017, leading digital aspects of research within CAHSS at Edinburgh, as well as building digital capacity in the new Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts, humanities, and wider cultural heritage and information environment that would otherwise be impossible.
With a background in Classical Art History and English Literature (MA, University of Glasgow), and Computing Science (MSc IT with distinction in Software and Systems, University of Glasgow), her doctorate (Engineering, University of Oxford) examined how to use advanced information engineering technologies to interpret and read Roman texts. She is an Honorary Professor of Digital Humanities in UCL Department of Information Studies, where she was employed from 2003-2017, Honorary Professor in UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, which she directed 2012-2017, and previously Vice Dean of Research in UCL’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2014-2017).
Books include “Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts” (2006, Oxford University Press) and “Digital Images for the Information Professional” (2008, Ashgate), and she has co-edited various volumes such as “Digital Humanities in Practice” (Facet 2012) and “Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader” (Ashgate 2013) which was recently translated into a Russian Edition (Siberian Federal University Press 2017). Her latest monograph on the representation of academics in children’s literature is in production with Cambridge University Press.
Terras was program chair of the major international conference Digital Humanities 2014, in Lausanne, Switzerland, vice-chair of DH2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and outgoing chair of DH2015 in Sydney, Australia. She served as Secretary of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (now the European Association of Digital Humanities) (2008-2011) and as a Steering committee member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (2009-2012).
External appointments
Terras is general editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. She currently serves on the Board of Curators of the University of Oxford Libraries and the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, as well as a number of Advisory boards including The British Library Labs, the Scientific Consultative Group of The National Gallery, and The Imperial War Museum’s Operation War Diary. Terras is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society. Terras was the Co-Investigator of the The EPSRC funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) during its set up period.
Useful Links
Twitter: @melissaterras
Instagram: melissaterras
Current research activities
Terras is working on a range of funded projects and initiatives applying computational approaches to cultural heritage areas, including Transcriptorium , Crosscult, Oceanic Exchanges, and Digital Library Futures, and numerous unfunded research approaches including the representation of academia in children's literature, and the history of female punchcard operatives in early Digital Humanities projects. Previous research projects include and Deep Imaging Mummy Cases, Non-Destructive Analysis of Multi-Layered Papyrus, QRator, Transcribe Bentham, The Great Parchment Book , The Slade Archive Project, Textal, Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities, Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology, eScience and Ancient Documents, and Researching eScience Analysis of Census Holdings.
Postgraduate teaching
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am interested in hearing from students wishing to undertake doctoral research in any area related to digital cultural heritage including digitisation, digital libraries, user studies, digital editions, digital museums, and the general digital humanities, including text and data mining, any aspects of amateur collecting and online platforms, crowdsourcing, and online public engagement. I am happy to discuss research careers with interested potential PhD students.
Current PhD students supervised
Topics currently worked on by PhD students include: Understanding best practice in scholarly digital editions; Using data mining methods to understand the impact of the London Library; Using and developing digital interfaces to examine the interconnectedness of museum objects; Information Practices Across The Academic And Non-academic Fields of Oceanography; A pipeline of multispectral imaging for analysing historical texts; and Hyperspectral Imaging for Cultural Heritage Analysis: from books to bricks.
Past PhD students supervised
Professor Terras has supervised students working on a variety of topics to successful completion, including: User responses to 3D computational models in museum spaces; Imaging the Great Parchment Book; Use and users of large scale digitisation initiatives; Social interpretation and user experience in digital cultural contexts; Digital Public Archaeology; Multi-spectral imaging of manuscript material; The genesis of the blogging platform: an archival study; The materiality of comic books and digital media; and Building an Interpretation Support System to aid the reading of Ancient Documents.
Books - Authored
Terras, M. (2018) Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University PressDOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529501
Terras, M. (2018) The Professor in Children's Literature: An Anthology. Roehampton University: Fincham Press
Terras, M. (2008) Digital Images for the Information Professional. Routledge
Terras, M. (2006) Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts. Oxford University Press
Books - Edited
Terras, M. and Crawford, E. (eds.) (2022) Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings. London: UCL PressDOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787358638
Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (eds.) (2020) Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Libraries of the Future. London: facet publishing
Terras, M., Найхан, Д., Ванхут, Э. and КИЖНЕР, И. (eds.) (2017) Цифровые гуманитарные науки Хрестоматия. Siberian Federal University Press
Terras, M., Nyhan, J. and Vanhoutte, E. (eds.) (2013) Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Routledge
Warwick, C., Terras, M. and Nyhan, J. (eds.) (2012) Digital Humanities in Practice. facet publishing
Terras, M. and D. Nelson, B. (eds.) (2012) Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture. Iter
Terras, M. and G, C. (eds.) (2010) Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure. Gorgias Press
Articles
Nockels, J., Gooding, P., Ames, S. and Terras, M. (2022) Understanding the application of handwritten text recognition technology in heritage contexts: A systematic review of Transkribus in published research. Archival Science, 22(3), pp. 367-392DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09397-0
Estill, L., Guiliano, J., Ortega, É., Terras, M., Verhoeven, D. and Layne-Worthey, G. (2022) The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 16(4)
Piccio, B., Helgason, I., Elsden, C. and Terras, M. (2022) A hefty dose of lemons: The importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), pp. 154-175DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2022.2036489
Dahlan, K. and Terras, M. (2021) A social network analysis of the oceanographic community: A fragmented digital community of practice. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C), 49(4), pp. 159-181DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2020-0030
O'Neill, H., Welsh, A., Smith, D., Roe, G. and Terras, M. (2021) Text mining Mill: Computationally detecting influence in the writings of John Stuart Mill from library records. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(4), pp. 1013 - 1029DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab010
Valeonti, F., Bikakis, A., Terras, M., Speed, C., Hudson-Smith, A. and Chalkias, K. (2021) Crypto collectibles, museum funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, opportunities and the potential of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Applied Sciences, 11(21)DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11219931
Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Rumyantsev, M., Khokhlova, V., Demeshkova, E., Rudov, I. and Afanasieva, J. (2021) Digital cultural colonialism: Measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(3), pp. 607-640DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa055
Jones, C., Terras, M., Duffy, C. and Gibson, A. (2020) Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage: Determining best practice in MSI analysis of historical artefacts. Journal of Cultural HeritageDOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.03.004
Hauswedell, T., Nyhan, J., Terras, M., Beals, M. and Bell, E. (2020) Of global reach yet of situated contexts: An examination of the implicit and explicit selection criteria that shape digital archives of historical newspapers. Archival Science, 20(2), pp. 139-165DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09332-1
Kizhner, I., Terras, M. and Rumyantsev, M. (2020) Репрезентативность и сбалансированность агрегаторов цифровых данных в области культурного наследия. Сибирский антропологический журнал, 4(3 (09)), pp. 169-178
Seaward, L., Terras, M., Muehlberger, G., Ares Oliveira, S., Vicente , B., Colutto, S., Déjean, H., Diem, M., Fiel, S., Gatos, B., Grüning, T., Greinoecker, A., Hackl, G., Haukkovaara, V., Heyer, G., Hirvonen, L., Hodel, T., Jokinen, M., Jokinen, P., Kallio, M., Kaplan, F., Kleber, F., Labahn, R., Lang, E., Laube, S., Leifert, G., Louloudis, G., McNicholl, R., Meunier, J., Mühlbauer, E., Philipp, N., Pratikakis, I., Puigcerver Pérez, J., Putz, H., Retsinas, G., Romero, V., Sablatnig, R., Sánchez, J., Schofield, P., Sfikas, G., Sieber, C., Stamatopoulos, N., Strauss, T., Terbul, T., Toselli, A., Ulreich, B., Villega, M., Vidal, E., Walcher, J., Weidemann, M., Wurster, H., Zagoris, K., Bryan, M. and Michael, J. (2019) Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: Transkribus as a case study. Journal of Documentation, 75(5), pp. 954-976DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2018-0114
Valeonti, F., Terras, M. and Hudson-Smith, A. (2019) How open is OpenGLAM? Identifying barriers to commercial and non-commercial reuse of digitised art images. Journal of Documentation, 76(1)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2019-0109
Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Rumyantsev, M., Sycheva, K. and Rudov, I. (2019) Accessing Russian culture online: The scope of digitization in museums across Russia. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(2), pp. 350-367DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy035
Martinez, M. and Terras, M. (2019) ‘Not Adopted’: The UK Orphan Works Licensing Scheme and how the crisis of copyright in the cultural heritage sector restricts access to digital content. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), pp. 1-51DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.335
Münster, S. and Terras, M. (2019) The visual side of digital humanities: A survey on topics, researchers, and epistemic cultures. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35(22), pp. 366-389DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz022
Maybury, I., Howell, D., Terras, M. and Viles, H. (2018) Comparing the effectiveness of hyperspectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy: A case study on Armenian manuscripts. Heritage Science, 6(1), pp. 1-15DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0206-1
Gibson, A., Piquette, K., Bergmann, U., Christens-Barry, W., Davis, P., Endrizzi, M., Fan, S., Farsiu, S., Fitzgerald, A., Griffiths, J., Jones, C., Li, G., Manning, P., Maughan Jones, C., Mazza, R., Mills, D., Modregger, P., Munro, P., Olivo, A., Stevenson, A., Venugopal, B., Wallace, V., Wogelius, R., Toth, M. and Terras, M. (2018) An assessment of multimodal imaging of subsurface text in mummy cartonnage using surrogate papyrus phantoms. Heritage Science, 6(7), pp. 1-13DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0175-4
Pal, K., Avery, N., Boston, P., Campagnolo, A., De Stefani, C., Matheson-pollock, H., Panozzo, D., Payne, M., Schüller, C., Sanderson, C., Scott, C., Smith, P., Smither, R., Sorkine-hornung, O., Stewart, A., Stewart, E., Stewart, P., Terras, M., Walsh, B., Ward, L., Yamada, L. and Weyrich, T. (2017) Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(4), pp. 887-917DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw057
Bailey-ross, C., Gray, S., Ashby, J., Terras, M., Hudson-smith, A. and Warwick, C. (2017) Engaging the museum space: Mobilizing visitor engagement with digital content creation. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(4), pp. 689-708DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw041
Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (2017) Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: Contemporary metaphors for the digital library. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(3), pp. 207-222DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-016-0194-2
Attu, R. and Terras, M. (2017) What people study when they study Tumblr: Classifying Tumblr-related academic research. Journal of Documentation, 73(3), pp. 528-554DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2016-0101
Terras, M., Baker, J., Hetherington, J., Beavan, D., Zaltz Austwick, M., Welsh, A., O'Neill, H., Finley, W., Duke-Williams, O. and Farquhar, A. (2017) Enabling complex analysis of large-scale digital collections: Humanities research, high-performance computing, and transforming access to British Library digital collections. Digital Scholarship in the HumanitiesDOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx020
Giacometti, A., Campagnolo, A., Macdonald, L., Mahony, S., Robson, S., Weyrich, T., Terras, M. and Gibson, A. (2017) The value of critical destruction: Evaluating multispectral image processing methods for the analysis of primary historical texts. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(1), pp. 101-122DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv036
Terras, M. (2016) A Decade in Digital Humanities. Journal of Siberian Federal University, 9(7), pp. 1637-1650DOI: https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-2016-9-7-1637-1650
Jänicke, S., Geßner, A., Franzini, G., Terras, M., Mahony, S. and Scheuermann, G. (2015) TRAViz: A visualization for Variant Graphs. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(Supplement 1), pp. i83-i99DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv049
G.e. Gorman And Professor Jennifer, P. and Terras, M. (eds.) (2015) Opening Access to collections: The making and using of open digitised cultural content. Online Information Review, 39(5), pp. 733-752DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-06-2015-0193
Terras, M. (2015) So you want to reuse digital heritage content in a creative context? Good luck with that. Art Libraries Journal, 40(4), pp. 33-37DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307472200020502
Causer, T. and Terras, M. (2014) Crowdsourcing Bentham: Beyond the traditional Boundaries of academic history. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 8(1), pp. 46-64DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2014.0119
Gooding, P., Terras, M. and Warwick, C. (2013) The myth of the new: Mass digitization, distant reading, and the future of the book. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(4), pp. 629-639DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqt051
Williams, S., Terras, M. and Warwick, C. (2013) What do people study when they study Twitter? Classifying Twitter related academic papers. Journal of Documentation, 69(3), pp. 384-410DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2012-0027
Terras, M. (2012) The impact of social media on the dissemination of research: Results of an experiment. Journal of digital humanities, 1(3)
Ross, C., Terras, M., Warwick, C. and Welsh, A. (2011) Enabled backchannel: Conference Twitter use by digital humanists. Journal of Documentation, 67(2), pp. 214-237DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411111109449
Terras, M. (2011) The digital wunderkammer: Flickr as a platform for amateur cultural and heritage content. Library Trends, 59(4), pp. 686-706DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2011.0022
Terras, M. (2010) Digital curiosities: Resource creation via amateur digitization. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25(4), pp. 425-438DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqq019
Terras, M., Branden, R. and Vanhoutte, E. (2009) Teaching TEI: The need for TEI by example. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 24(3), pp. 297-306DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqp018
Warwick, C., Fisher, C., Terras, M., Baker, M., Clarke, A., Fulford, M., Grove, M., Rains, M. and O' Riordan, E. (2009) iTrench: A study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 24(2), pp. 211-223DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqp006
Crane, G., Seales, B. and Terras, M. (2009) Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Philology. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3(1)
Warwick, C., Galina, I., Rimmer, J., Terras, M., Blandford, A., Gow, J. and Buchanan, G. (2009) Documentation and the users of digital resources in the humanities. Journal of Documentation, 65(1), pp. 33-57DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410910926112
Terras, M. (2009) Should we just send a copy?: Digitisation, use and usefulness. Art Libraries Journal, 35(1), pp. 22-27
Terras, M. (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. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3(4)
Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (2008) ‘Grand Theft Archive’: A quantitative analysis of the state of computer game preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation, 3(2), pp. 19-41DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v3i2.56
Warwick, C., Galina, I., Terras, M., Huntington, P. and Pappa, N. (2008) The master builders: LAIRAH research on good practice in the construction of digital humanities projects. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(3), pp. 383-396DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn017
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Galina, I., Huntington, P. and Pappa, N. (2008) Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities. Program: electronic library and information systems, 42(1), pp. 5-27DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330810851555
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P. and Pappa, N. (2007) 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. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(1), pp. 85-102DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqm045
Terras, M. (2006) Disciplined: Using educational studies to analyse ‘Humanities Computing’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 21(2), pp. 229-246DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fql022
Terras, M. (2006) Interpreting the image: Using advanced computational techniques to read the Vindolanda texts. Aslib Proceedings, 58(1/2), pp. 102-117DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530610648707
Terras, M. (2005) Reading the readers: Modelling complex humanities processes to build cognitive systems. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 20(1), pp. 41-59DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqh042
Terras, M. and Robertson, P. (2005) Image and interpretation: Using artificial intelligence to read ancient Roman texts. HumanIT, 7(3)
Terras, M. and Robertson, P. (2004) Downs and acrosses: Textual markup on a stroke level. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(3), pp. 397-414DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/19.3.397
Terras, M. (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. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 16(4), pp. 485-491DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/16.4.485
Terras, M. (2001) Towards a reading of the Vindolanda stylus tablets: Engineering Science and the papyrologist. HumanIT, 5(2)
Terras, M. (1999) A virtual tomb for Kelvingrove: Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Education. Internet Archaeology
Chapters
Terras, M. (2022) Digital humanities and digitised cultural heritage. In: O'Sullivan, J. (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 255-266DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232143.ch-24
Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Manovich, L., Orekhov, B., Kim, I., Rumyantsev, M. and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, A. (2022) The history and context of the Digital Humanities in Russia. In: Fiormonte, D. and Chaudhuri , S. (eds.) Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press
Terras, M. (2022) The role of the library when computers can read: Critically adopting Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies to support research. In: Wheatley, A. and Hervieux, S. (eds.) The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries. Atlanta: ACRL - Association of College & Research Libraries, pp. 137-148
Terras, M. (2022) Digital cultural heritage in the time of pandemic - Reflections upon a year of lockdown. In: Bernardou, A., Dritsou, V. and Ilvanidou, M. (eds.) DH Goes Viral. Athena RC: Digital Curation Unit, Information Management Systems Institute, Athena RC, pp. 57-60DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5793151
Gibson, A., Tuckett, T., Makin, K., Jones, C., Sun, J. and Terras, M. (2022) Revealing the invisible and inaudible in UCL Special Collections. In: Coldwell, P. and Morgan, R. (eds.) Picturing the Invisible: Exploring interdisciplinary synergies from the arts and the sciences. UCL Press, pp. 25-48
Elsden, C., Yu, D., Piccio, B., Helgason, I. and Terras, M. (2021) Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020. In: Bissell, L. and Weir, L. (eds.) Performance in a Pandemic. London: RoutledgeDOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165644-10
Vlachidis, A., Antoniou, A., Bikakis, A. and Terras, M. (2021) Semantic metadata enrichment and data augmentation of small museum collections following the FAIR principles. In: Golub, K. and Liu, Y. (eds.) Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 106-129DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131816-11
Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (2020) Introduction. In: Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (eds.) Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future. Facet Publishing, pp. xxiii-xxx
Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (2020) ‘An ark to save learning from Deluge’? Reconceptualising legal deposit after the digital turn. In: Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (eds.) Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future. facet publishing, pp. 203-228DOI: https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783303786.012
Terras, M. (2020) Implementing advanced digital imaging research in cultural heritage: Building relationships between conservators and computational imaging scientists. In: Campagnolo, A. (ed.) Book Conservation and Digitization: The Challenges of Dialogue and Collaboration. Arc Humanities Press, pp. 217-231
Hindmarch, J., Terras, M. and Robson, S. (2019) On virtual auras: The cultural heritage object in the age of 3D digital reproduction. In: Lewi, H., Smith, W., vom Lehn, D. and Steve, C. (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 243-256
Kador, T., Hannan, L., Nyhan, J., Terras, M., Chatterjee, H. and Carnall, M. (2018) Object-based learning and research-based education: Case studies from the UCL curricula. In: Davies, J. and Pachler, N. (eds.) Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Perspectives from UCL. London: UCL IoE Press, pp. 157-177
Franzini, G., Mahony, S. and Terras, M. (2016) A catalogue of digital editions. In: Pierazzo, E. and Driscoll, M. (eds.) Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices. Open Book Publishers, pp. 161-182DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0095
Terras, M. (2016) Crowdsourcing in the digital humanities. In: Schreibman, S., Siemens, R. and Unsworth, J. (eds.) A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 420-439
Terras, M. (2016) Digital images. In: Mcdonald, J. and Levine-Clark, M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Taylor & Francis
Terras, M. (2015) Cultural heritage information: Artefacts and digitization technologies. In: Ruthven, I. and Chowdhury, G. (eds.) Cultural Heritage Information: Access Management. facet publishing, pp. 63-88
Nyhan, J., Terras, M. and Mahony, S. (2014) Integrative Learning: International research and practice. In: Blackshields, D., Cronin, J., Higgs, B., Kilcommins, S., McCarthy, M. and Ryan, A. (eds.) Integrative Learning: International research and practice. Routledge, pp. 235-247DOI: https://doi.org/20.500.11820/c8d14ed8-032f-4d60-b3dd-6dccf4eb0d16
Causer, T. and Terras, M. (2014) “Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work”: Transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing manuscript collections. In: Ridge, M. (ed.) Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 57-88
Ross, C., Carnall, M., Hudson-Smith, A., Warwick, C., Terras, M. and Gray, S. (2013) Enhancing museum narratives: Tales of things and UCL's grant museum. In: Farman, J. (ed.) The mobile story: Narrative practices with locative technologies. Taylor and Francis Ltd., pp. 276-289
Terras, M. (2012) Being the other: Interdisciplinary work in computational science and the humanities. In: Deegan, M. and McCarthy, W. (eds.) Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities: A Volume in Honour of Harold Short, on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday and his Retirement, September 2010. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 213-230
Warwick, C., Terras, M. and Galina, I. (2012) Bibliothèques, ressources d’information et utlisateurs de ressources électroniques dans les sciences humaines. In: Ceccani, S. (ed.) Pratiques documentaires numériques à l'université. Presses de l’ensibb, pp. 140-174
Terras, M. (2012) Digitisation and digital resources in the humanities. In: Terras, M., Warwick, C. and Nyhan, J. (eds.) Digital Humanities in Practice. facet publishing
Terras, M. (2012) Image processing and digital humanities. In: Terras, N., Nyhan, J. and Warwich, C. (eds.) Digital Humanities in Practice. facet publishing
Terras, M., Warwick, C. and Nyhan, J. (2012) Introduction. In: Warwick, C., Terras, M. and Nyhan, J. (eds.) Digital Humanities in Practice. facet publishing, pp. xiii-xix
Terras, M. (2012) Present, not voting: Digital humanities in the Panopticon. In: Berry, D. (ed.) Understanding Digital Humanities. Milton Keynes: The Open University and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 172-190DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371934_10
Terras, M., Ross, C. and Motyckova, V. (2012) Scholarly information seeking behaviour in the British Museum online collection. In: Hughes, L. (ed.) Evaluating and Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections. facet publishing, pp. 85-102
Terras, M. (2012) Un regard jeté sous le Chapiteau. Les humanités numériques et la crise de l’inclusion. In: Read/Write Book 2:: Introduction aux humanités numériques. Open Edition Press
Terras, M. (2011) Artefacts and errors: Acknowledging issues of representation in the digital imaging of ancient texts. In: Fischer, F., Fritze, C. and Vogeler, G. (eds.) Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2/ Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2. Books on Demand, pp. 43-61DOI: https://doi.org/20.500.11820/29d0e999-39d3-42e0-96e2-2b9b99ec69a8
Terras, M., Warwick, C. and Ross, C. (2011) Building useful virtual research environments: The need for user-led design. In: Building Useful Virtual Research Environments: The Need for User-Led Design. University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments, pp. 151-167
Terras, M. (2010) The digital classicist: Disciplinary focus and interdisciplinary vision. In: Mahony, S. and Bodard, G. (eds.) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. Routledge, pp. 171-189
Terras, M. (2010) The rise of digitisation: An overview. In: Rukowski, R. (ed.) Digital Perspectives. Sense Publishing, pp. 3-20
Terras, M. (2009) Digital images. In: Bates, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Brady, M., Pan, X., Schenk, V., Terras, M., Robertson, P. and Molton, N. (2005) Shadow stereo, image filtering, and constraint propagation. In: Bowman, A. and Brady, M. (eds.) Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World. British Academy Scholarship Online, pp. 15-30DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262962.003.0003
Conference contribution
Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Afanaseva, J., Pusenkova, D., Sherer, M. and Skorinkin, D. (2022) The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture?. In: Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 43-64DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828-003
Nockels, J., Terras, M., Gooding, P., Muehlberger, G. and Stauder, A. (2022) Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests. In: DH2022 Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts. Tokyo: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, pp. 321-323
Li, Y., Terras, M. and Li, Y. (2022) Gender and cultural diversity in Chinese children’s picture books: A data-led analysis of bestselling modern titles. In: DH2022, Digital Humanities 2022, Conference Abstracts. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, pp. 292-294
Havens, L., Terras, M., Bach, B. and Alex, B. (2022) Uncertainty and inclusivity in gender bias annotation: An annotation taxonomy and annotated datasets of British English text. In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP). ACL Anthology, pp. 30-57DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.gebnlp-1.4
Filgueira, R., Grover, C., Karaiskos, V., Alex, B., Van Eyndhoven, S., Gotthard, L. and Terras, M. (2021) Extending defoe for the efficient analysis of historical texts at scale. In: 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on eScience (eScience). IEEE, pp. 21-29DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience51609.2021.00012
Filgueira Vicente, R., Grover, C., Terras, M. and Alex, B. (2020) Geoparsing the Historical Gazetteers of Scotland: Accurately Computing Location in Mass Digitised Texts. In: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 24–30
Filgueira Vicente, R., Jackson, M., Roubickova, A., Krause, A., Ahnert, R., Hauswedell, T., Nyhan, J., Beavan, D., Hobson, T., Coll Ardanuy, M., Colavizza, G., Hetherington, J. and Terras, M. (2020) defoe: A Spark-based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data. In: 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 235-242DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2019.00033
Loboda, O., Nyhan, J., Mahony, S., Romano, D. and Terras, M. (2019) Content-based recommender systems for heritage: Developing a personalised museum tour. In: Proceedings of the 1st International ‘Alan Turing’ Conference on Decision Support and Recommender Systems (DSRS-Turing 2019): The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom, 21-22nd November 2019., pp. 11-16
Lechelt, Z., Elsden, C., Speed, C., Helgason, I., Paneels, I., Smyth, M. and Terras, M. (2019) How can we balance research, participation and innovation as HCI researchers?. In: Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. ACMDOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363394
Gooding, P., Terras, M. and Berube, L. (2019) User-centric evaluation of non-print legal deposit in the United Kingdom: The digital library futures approach. In: 13th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries. Aberystwyth
Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Rumyantsev, M., Khokhlova, V. and Demeshkova, E. (2019) Measuring bias in aggregated digitised content: A case study on Google arts and culture. In: Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations
Valeonti, F., Terras, M., Hudson-Smith, A. and Zarkali, C. (2018) Exploring new business models for monetising digitisation beyond image licensing to promote adoption of OpenGLAM. In: EVA Berlin 2018. EVA, pp. 274-280
Toth, M., Toth, C., Christens-Barry, W., Farsia, S., Li, G., Gibson, A. and Terras, M. (2018) Integrating optical imaging of mummy mask cartonnage. In: Archiving 2018 Final Program and Proceedings. Washington, D.C.: Society for Imaging Science and Technology, pp. 157-162DOI: https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2018.1.0.34
Williams, S., Terras, M. and Warwick, C. (2013) How Twitter is studied in the medical professions: A classification of Twitter papers indexed in PubMed. In: World Congress on Social Media in Medicine. JMIR PublicationsDOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/med20.2269
Fischer, C., Terras, M. and Warwick, C. (2010) Integrating new technologies into established systems: A case study from Roman Silchester. In: Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA): Proceedings of the 37 th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26, 2009. BAR Publishing