Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Melissa Terras
University of Edinburgh
22 November
12:30
Research Symposium: Agents of Change, How R&D drives transformation in Creative Clusters
Melissa Terras
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Director of Creative Informatics
Speaker Biography
Melissa Terras is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage within Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research concerns the digitisation of cultural heritage, covering three main areas: advanced digitisation techniques and approaches; understanding large-scale digitisation in the cultural heritage sector and how it can be best deployed for and by users as well as by institutions; and utilising the results of digitisation to undertake novel research and innovative projects. Recently, she has been working on the use of advanced technology in the cultural and creative industries, particularly how we can support innovation in this area. Melissa is Director of Creative Informatics, the Edinburgh based AHRC Creative Cluster (2018-2024), and a founding Director of Transkribus, the AI-powered platform for text recognition of historical documents. She is the University of Edinburgh lead for CoSTAR (UK Government’s Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime) programme (2023-29).