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Melissa Terras
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 13
Citations - 160
Melissa Terras is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Situated & Creative industries. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications receiving 49 citations.
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Crypto collectibles, museum funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, opportunities and the potential of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
Foteini Valeonti,Antonis Bikakis,Melissa Terras,Chris Speed,Andrew Hudson-Smith,Konstantinos Chalkias +5 more
TL;DR: The potential of NFTs to generate significant revenue for artists and museums by selling effectively a cryptographically signed copy of a digital image (similar to real-world limited editions, which are signed and numbered copies of a given artwork), has sparked the interest of the financially deprived museum and heritage sector.
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Of global reach yet of situated contexts: an examination of the implicit and explicit selection criteria that shape digital archives of historical newspapers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors 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.
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Digital Cultural Colonialism: Measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture.
Inna Kizhner,Melissa Terras,Maxim Rumyantsev,Valentina Khokhlova,Elisaveta Demeshkova,Ivan Rudov,Julia Afanasieva +6 more
The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute
Barbara McGillivray,Beatrice Alex,S Ames,Guyda Armstrong,David Beavan,Arianna Ciula,Giovanni Colavizza,J. Cummings,De, Roure, D,A Farquhar,Simon Hengchen,Anouk Lang,James Loxley,E Goudarouli,Federico Nanni,Andrea Nini,Julianne Nyhan,Nicola Osborne,T Poibeau,Mia Ridge,S Ranade,James Smithies,Melissa Terras,Andreas Vlachidis,Pip Willcox +24 more
TL;DR: This dissertation aims to provide a history of web exceptionalism from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which descriptions of “Web 2.0” began to circulate.
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Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage: Determining best practice in MSI analysis of historical artefacts
TL;DR: The pipeline and recommendations from this research will improve project management by increasing clarity of published outcomes, the reusability of data, and encouraging a more open discussion of process and application within the MSI community.