Professor Melissa Terras FRSE

Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, University of Edinburgh

Melissa Terras is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, and a leading researcher in Digital Humanities. Her interest is the digitisation of cultural heritage, including advanced digitisation techniques, usage of large-scale digital collections, and the mining and analysis of digitised content. Melissa was Director of Creative Informatics, the Edinburgh based AHRC Creative Cluster, and is a founding Director of Transkribus, the award-winning AI-powered platform for text recognition of historical documents.

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