Knowledge Commons | Melissa Terras | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/melissaterras/activity/ Activity feed for Melissa Terras. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:06:35 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ea5b1a7937a82af1c555d499812746c3 Melissa Terras deposited ‘Making such bargain’: Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598931/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:47:27 -0500 In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives, and their public engagement value. This article…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa8350a2038267d7f6961e5b83c3357b Melissa Terras deposited Enhancing Museum Narratives: Tales of Things and UCL’s Grant Museum https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592348/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:18:34 -0500 Emergent mobile technologies offer museum professionals new ways of engaging visitors with their collections. Museums are powerful learning environments and mobile technology can enable visitors to experience the narratives in museum objects and galleries and integrate them with their own personal reflections and interpretations. UCL‟s QRator p…[Read more]

]]> 0 3336d8cebad3da6ded22b60c08f13674 Melissa Terras deposited Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578182/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:08:19 -0400 The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d982e124656e65f35127bc36cf845a52 Melissa Terras deposited Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578180/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:08:17 -0400 The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd457bfe2d6958246c80f8e7cc2a733a Melissa Terras deposited Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578179/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:08:16 -0400 The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbf45ea86003fcfb07eea55b4bf6308c Melissa Terras deposited Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578178/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:08:14 -0400 The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f32573b228d209b98c5e78e78e0b0c86 Melissa Terras deposited “Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work”: Transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing manuscript collections https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577964/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:12:42 -0400 The philospher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), was a firm supporter of innovation and enquiry. Following in his example, the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative (Transcribe Bentham) has utilised modern technology to digitise the vast collection of manuscripts written and composed by Bentham held by University College London Special…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf845d89fc4d354738d6c10709c2dedd Melissa Terras deposited Cultural Heritage Information: Artefacts and Digitization Technologies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577963/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:57:51 -0400 Since the 1970s, the gallery, library, archive, and museum sector has promoted and encouraged digitization - the conversion of analog into digital information - to
increase access to cultural heritage material through various incarnations of digital media. Indeed, it is now expected by both users and professionals that institutions
should be…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fa0502ab07c656dffe1c863a17a5d17 Melissa Terras deposited Integrative Learning and Digital Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577926/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:33:57 -0400 Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives, commercial contexts and even in individuals’ homes the application of computing to cultural heritage is transforming how the human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined. An increasingly mainstream area of academic r…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2d5241ebd183c27fa7f6cfb35afed1b Melissa Terras deposited A Catalogue of Digital Editions https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577924/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:19:46 -0400 Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or…[Read more]

]]> 0 745997ed9905d8ba738393ff16c549f5 Melissa Terras deposited Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577878/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:25:21 -0400 As Web 2.0 technologies changed the World Wide Web from a read-only to a co-creative digital experience, a range of commercial and non-commercial platforms
emerged to allow online users to contribute to discussions and use their knowledge, experience, and time to build online content. Alongside the widespread success of collaboratively produced…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bd0fcedd19ff864e294fdfdce973821 Melissa Terras deposited Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: contemporary metaphors for the digital library in the group Library & Information Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577456/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:00:09 -0400 Librarians have been consciously adopting metaphors to describe library concepts since the nineteenth century, helping us to structure our understanding of new technologies. As a profession, we have drawn extensively on these figurative frameworks to explore issues surrounding the digital library, yet very little has been written to date which…[Read more]

]]> 0 956fbc48fa339d3913f1d04b632737c6 Melissa Terras deposited Inheriting library cards to Babel and Alexandria: contemporary metaphors for the digital library https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577126/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:13:36 -0400 Librarians have been consciously adopting metaphors to describe library concepts since the nineteenth
century, helping us to structure our understanding of new technologies. As a profession, we have drawn extensively
on these figurative frameworks to explore issues surrounding the digital library, yet very little has been written to date
which…[Read more]

]]> 0 20164d220bae723a16ea84496d5a5e2e Melissa Terras deposited What people study when they study Tumblr: Classifying Tumblr-related Academic Research https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577112/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:54:44 -0400 Purpose

Since its launch in 2007, research has been carried out on the popular social networking website Tumblr. The purpose of this paper is to identify published Tumblr-based research, classify it to understand approaches and methods, and provide methodological recommendations for others.

Design/methodology/approach

Research regarding…[Read more]

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