Papers

Selected Journal and Conference papers include (for a complete bibliography, see my Edinburgh research repository page):

Terras, M. (2022). “Digital humanities and digitised cultural heritage”. In J. O’Sullivan (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (1 ed., pp. 255-266). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232143.ch-24

Nockels, J., Gooding, P., Ames, S., & 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), 367-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09397-0

Estill, L., Guiliano, J., Ortega, É., Terras, M., Verhoeven, D., & 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). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/4/000643/000643.html

Terras, M. (2022). “Inviting AI into the archives: The reception of handwritten recognition technology into historical manuscript transcription”. In L. Jaillant (Ed.), Archives, Access and AI: Working with Born-Digital and Digitised Archival Collections (pp. 179-204). (Digital Humanities Research; Vol. 2). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455845-008

Terras, M. (2022). The role of the library when computers can read: Critically adopting Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies to support research. In A. Wheatley, & S. Hervieux (Eds.), The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries (pp. 137-148). ACRL – Association of College & Research Libraries. [PDF]

Piccio, B., Helgason, I., Elsden, C., & 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), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2022.2036489

Havens, L., Bach, B., Terras, M., & Alex, B. (2022). “Beyond explanation: A case for exploratory text visualizations of nonaggregated, annotated datasets”. Paper presented at Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP at LREC 2022, Marseille, France. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/NLPerspectives/2022.nlperspectives-1.0.pdf

O’Neill, H., Welsh, A., Smith, D. A., Roe, G., & 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), 1013 – 1029. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab010

Terras, M., Coleman, S., Drost, S., Elsden, C., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Osborne, N., Paneels, I., Pegado, B., Schafer, B., Smyth, M., Thornton, P., & Speed, C. (2021). “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts”. Big Data and Society, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165

Havens, L., Terras, M., Bach, B., & Alex, B. (2020). “Situated Data, Situated Systems: A Methodology to Engage with Power Relations in Natural Language Processing Research”. Paper presented at 2nd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at COLING 2020. [PDF]

Jones, C., Terras, M., Duffy, C., & Gibson, A. (2020). Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage: Determining best practice in MSI analysis of historical artefacts. Journal of Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.03.004

Hauswedell, T., Nyhan, J., Terras, M., Beals, M., & 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), 139-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09332-1

McGillivray, B., Alex, B., Ames, S., Armstrong, G., Beavan, D., Ciula, A., Colavizza, G., Cummings, J., David, D. R., Farquhar, A., Hengchen, S., Lang, A., Loxley, J., Goudarouli, E., Nanni, F., Nini, A., Nyhan, J., Osborne, N., Poibeau, T., Terras, M., Willcox, P. (2020). “The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute”. (pp. 1). The Alan Turing Institute. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12732164.v5

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 content13 May 2019 In: Open Library of the Humanities , vol. 5, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.335/

Gooding, P., Terras, Berube, L. (2019). Towards User-Centric Evaluation of UK Non-Print Legal Deposit : A Digital Library Futures White Paper White Paper, Digital Library Futures Project.

Franzini, G., Mahoney, S., Terras, M. (2019). Digital editions of text : Surveying user requirements in the Digital Humanities Feb 2019 In: ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), vol. 12, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3230671

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 Humanities.https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx020

Attu, R., Attu, R., Terras, M. and Terras, M., (2017). “What people study when they study Tumblr: Classifying Tumblr-related academic research”. Journal of Documentation, 73(3), pp.528-554. PDF

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., Weyrich, T. (2016). “Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/fqw057. Online.

Terras, M. (2016). “Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities”. In Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., and Unsworth, J. (eds), (2016) “A New Companion to Digital
Humanities”, (p. 420 – 439). Wiley-Blackwell. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118680596.html. PDF.

Gooding, P. and Terras, M. (2016). “Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: contemporary metaphors for the digital library”. International Journal on Digital Libraries. doi:10.1007/s00799-016-0194-2. Online.

Terras, M. (2016). “A Decade in Digital Humanities: text of Inaugural Lecture”. Journal of Siberian Federal University, the special issue on Digital Humanities. Vol. 9, Issue 7. PDF

Ross, C., Gray, S., Warwick, C., Hudson Smith, A., Terras, M. (2016). “Engaging the Museum Space: Mobilising Visitor Engagement with Digital Content Creation”. Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Online .

Terras, M. (2015). “”Opening Access to collections: the making and using of open digitised cultural content”, Online Information Review, Vol. 39 Iss: 5, pp.733 – 752. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/OIR-06-2015-0193. PDF.

Giacometti, A., Campagnolo, A., MacDonald, L., Mahony, S., Robson, S., Weyrich, T., Terras, M., Gibson, A. (2015). “The value of critical destruction: Evaluating multispectral image processing methods for the analysis of primary historical texts”. Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv036  Online.

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. (2014). “Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage”. Ashgate. PDF.

Causer, T. and Terras, M. (2014) “Crowdsourcing Bentham: beyond the traditional boundaries of academic history”. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 8 (1).  PDF.

Gooding, P., Terras, M. and Warwick, C. (2013). “The Myth of the New: Mass Digitization, Distant Reading, and the Future of the Book” Lit Linguist Computing (2013) 28 (4): 629-639. PDF.

Terras, M. (2012). “The impact of social media on the dissemination of research: results of an experiment”. Journal of Digital Humanities, September 2012. Online.

Terras, M. (2011). “Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon. Closing Plenary Speech, Digital Humanities 2010”. Literary and
Linguistic Computing, 26 (3) 257 – 269 PDF.

Terras, M. (2011). “Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital Imaging of Ancient Texts.” In Vogeler, G. et al (Eds). Codicology and Papyrology in the Digital Age, II. Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik. (Vol. Band 3, pp. 43-61). Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand. Retrieved from http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften-2/bd-3-kpdz2  PDF. 

Terras, M. (2011). “The Digital Wunderkammer: Flickr as a Platform for Amateur Cultural and Heritage Content”. Library Trends, Special Issue: Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Knowledge in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Eds Paul Marty and Michelle Kazmer. 59.4, pp. 686 – 706. Online. 

Ross, C. Terras, M. Warwick, C. and Welsh, A. (2011). “Enabled Backchannel: Conference Twitter Use by Digital Humanists. Journal of Documentation. Vol. 67 Iss: 2, pp.214 – 237. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1911710&show=abstract PDF.

Terras, M. (2009). “Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation”. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 25 (4) 425 – 438. PDF.

Terras, M. (2009) “Potentials and Problems in Applying High Performance Computing for Research in the Arts and Humanities: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings”. Digital Humanities Quarterly. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/4/000070/000070.html Fall 2009. PDF.