melissa terras
@melissaterras
Prof of Digital Cultural Heritage @EdinburghUni | computers vs the past | @edCDCS @eca_edinburgh @designinf @createinf @transkribus CoSTAR | pers. comm.
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http://melissaterras.org/ 23-06-2009 22:21:08
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he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Prof UIUC iSchool & English—PI @ViralTexts—Mostly https://t.co/lMrYtrjc0B these days
@tedunderwood.me 🦋
Using machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Information Sciences / English at UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019).
Andrew Piper
Using #AI and #NLP to study storytelling at McGillU. Author of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study and director of .txtlab.
Dr. Alex Gil 🏳️
faculty of collective wonders for @YaleSpanPort. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
Masud Khokhar
@UniversityLeeds Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection + Director of Learning Spaces. Chair @RL_UK. Digital, Diversity & Leadership. Forever learning!
Fab panel on video games/NFTs/AI/everything at the @createinf Let’s Play Edinburgh Science event tonight at Summerhall. A packed room, with questions that packed punches, too! Thanks Brian Baglow Neil McDonnell & Cat from Vesper!
Hey there's going to be a flamebait news 'article' in the Sunday Telegraph about Owen Exie J Hurcum 🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 's fantastic work on Trans #Archaeology . Please try not to feed the outrage machine with clicks, but we do appreciate solidarity. Please RT & read the post below
colleen-morgan.com/2022/06/13/the…
Blogged: review of excellent Creative Informatics exhibition at Edinburgh Science hazelhall.org/2024/04/11/cre… Highlights work by Caitlin McDonald, Claire Sowton & Kate Ive, speeches by melissa terras & Nicola Osborne, & chrisspeed's lucky shirt. Congratulations all!
Job Klaxon The University of Edinburgh! Lecturer in Computational Sociology. Particularly, expertise in computational text analysis methods applied to social scientific research questions and in digital data sources and the analysis of ‘big data’. Please share! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
NEW PROJECT 'Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage' - 8 speculative scenarios provoking discussion around futures for #DigitalCulturalHeritage buff.ly/3PXxgrk Jen Ross melissa terras #digitalcultures #digitaleducation
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage? Please take our survey imagining futures, or come along to our workshops (in Edinburgh & online) - more details here: de.ed.ac.uk/project/infras…
And survey link here! Pls share 🙏edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0N…
It’s the final weekend of Creative Informatics: Unleashing the Power of Data Edinburgh Science. We’ve had a brilliant time and welcomed 1000s of National Museums Scotland visitors to our interactive showcase. Pop by before 5pm tomorrow and join in!
Data-driven quilts = digital telescope, computer vision & pattern integration. This Reul-iùil 'guiding star' pattern shows the stars over #Edinburgh when my second daughter was born. On show Edinburgh Science National Museums Scotland as part of the Creative Informatics showcase 🔭🌟💻🧵🪡 #datadesign
We’ve had such a busy week National Museums Scotland presenting our Creative Informatics showcase as part of @edscifest. The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 April so pop in this weekend and join the fun. 📸 Chris Scott
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage? Please take our survey imagining futures, or come along to our workshops (in Edinburgh & online) - more details here: de.ed.ac.uk/project/infras…
And survey link here! Pls share 🙏edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0N…
Janet Howarth reviews 'Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Selected Writings', ed. Melissa Terras and Elizabeth Crawford melissa terras Elizabeth Crawford
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… UCL Press
Creative Informatics: Unleashing the Power of Data is set up and ready for another busy day National Museums Scotland Edinburgh Science 🎮🎧🎨📱🎶✨open daily until 7 April creativeinformatics.org/meet-the-exhib…
Answers to some common misconceptions about libraries;
“Libraries haven’t modernised”
Yes they have.
“No one uses libraries anymore”
Yes they do.
“We can’t afford them”
Yes we can.
“We have Google”
Library Workers are better.
“Anyone can run a library”
No they can’t.
#libraries
🎭 Funded PhD - Pasts, Presents & Futures of Digitally Mediated Theatre
New collaborative doctoral award led by Chris Elsden & @MelissaTerras, w. @designinf & Traverse Theatre.
Funders: SGSAH Arts and Humanities Research Council
edin.ac/3vlfiIy
📸 The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, T. Ga-Ken Wan
