Melissa Terras
Melissa Mhairi Terras is a British scholar of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage… more
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Fascinating article on Tommy Flowers, the little known engineer who actually invented the compute at Bletchley Park. I had never heard of him… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
by Caroline T. Schroeder — Reposted by Melissa Terras
Truly phenomenal work. #Coptic #Hebrew #Greek in #Braille plus #Cuneiform transliteration Braille guide
Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages
[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.] I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North …
www.blindscholar.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Melissa Terras, Dave O’Brien
Delighted our (Vikki Jones, @ingepanneels.bsky.social, Frauke Zeller, @melissaterras.bsky.social & I) new paper "Creative Informatics: the role of ‘the university’ in Edinburgh and South East Scotland's creative cluster" is out now in City, Culture & Society! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a potential blueprint for how to build digital cultural heritage platforms to be interoperable and agile. So glad to see IIIF used throughout, with minimal compute principles. One to watch…!
We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates
sites.tufts.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Melissa Terras
We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates
sites.tufts.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
by Lyn Robinson — Reposted by Melissa Terras
Great reading for LIS folks - covers development of LIS related disciplines through to contemporary concerns for information professionals and LIS students.
I like the 'boots of concrete' phrase :-) > 'Large companies have built vast consolidated infrastructure - we are used to thinking of information as immaterial, however, AI has also emphasized how the cloud has boots of concrete.' buff.ly/MAzHirK
Information: a brief schematic history
In a piece on the informational disciplines and the iSchool, I sketched this very schematic and informal overview of information, broadly construed. My focus is pragmatic, related to library…
www.lorcandempsey.net
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
by Melissa Terras — Reposted by Thessa Jensen
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Melissa Terras, Wilson McLeod
Universities planning cuts to jobs and courses are not cash strapped
Jo Grady highlights hypocrisy of the University of Edinburgh as it plans to make £140 million in cuts when then have £2.7 billion in net assets
Enough is enough
#WeAreTheUniversity
Jo Grady highlights hypocrisy of the University of Edinburgh as it plans to make £140 million in cuts when then have £2.7 billion in net assets
Enough is enough
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social you may like...
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
by Melissa Terras — Reposted by Kris Inwood
Short BBC podcast about the history of Tippex, invented by Bette Graham 😍 - will be of interest to history of the book, and history of tech folks... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Witness History - The secretary who made millions from her typos - BBC Sounds
In the 1950s, secretary Bette Graham invented correction fluid to cover up her errors
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
View from a b&b, #York. Last trip of this run before a whole four weeks at home…! #academicglamour
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
At the Guildhall, York today for our XRNetwork event - celebrating the projects we’ve funded but also Emma Brown now talking about the hard work we’ve put into EDI to make sure we’re reaching, supporting, and funding a wide range of people across the UK, via wonderful @xrstories.bsky.social team
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I just walked around the perimeter 😂
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today I got told off by a new computational system at work as I tried to book a meeting room more than 23 days in advance and that is AGAINST POLICY even tho I have meetings in my diary booked years ahead, thus creating more work for me at a time we are all having to do “more with less”. K Thanks 👍
a man is sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his shoulders
ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his shoulders
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Melissa Terras
Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Museum cyberattacks “are no longer a question of if, but when.”Amy Adams and George Wilson on the National Museum of the Royal Navy attack www.museumnext.com/article/less...
Lessons from a Cyberattack: The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Journey Through Crisis and Recovery
On 9 December 2024, the National Museum of the Royal Navy faced an event that every museum hopes never to experience: a ransomware cyberattack. Overnight,...
www.museumnext.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rogue urban sunflowers. Love it. #edinburgh
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Interesting... can't wait to read the first edition!
September 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Oh I’m not defending Ancestry here! Very much on the side of NRS
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Digital Cultural Heritage is big business… not that we fund our public institutions enough. This is an alarming, aggressive attack on a public institution that has found a way and a business model to offer a digital service.
From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Add to this worrying list “Library Washing” - persuading very prestigious university institutions to contribute their digital library collections to OpenAI’s model, to lend legitimacy, in exchange for a handful of (reduced cost!) magic AI beans.
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Reposted by Melissa Terras
Wikimedia Foundation joins the fight for library digital rights! 🎉
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe
The global Our Future Memory campaign to secure digital rights for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions has gained another powerful ally. Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions ...
www.internetarchive.eu
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Melissa Terras, Adrian Vickers, Elizabeth Ewan
From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think that's library label speak for "please pay attention to this but don't come at us for being too woke" - which is a real issue these days.
September 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
On the big train home. Having just done Oxford-London-now en route to Edinburgh, I can report that EVERYONE is coughing badly. Absolutely everyone. Take care out there folks...
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Melissa Terras
Thankyou to @discoxford.bsky.social for the final @theturing.bsky.social humanities and data science group. Our voices stand together championing the importance of the humanities in digital futures. Thank you @melissaterras.bsky.social you are a star
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM