Mr Stephen Gray

Summary

I'm currently head of Library Research Support.

I've worked with digital humanities and cultural heritage collections in universities, museums, galleries, archives and libraries for the past ten years, with an emphasis on metadata, standards, interoperability, digital preservation and conservation. This role spans research data managment, digital humanities, researcher metrics and Open Access publication support.

I also hold a number of other positions; I'm a Mentor for the Heritage Lottery Fund, an Associate Technical Adviser for Jisc and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Activities / Findings

As a parallel acivity, I make experimental film works which explore our relationship to places, these are delivered via film festival or gallery installation. One of these was nominated for a BIFA in 2006 and another awarded a Red Mansion residency in China in 2003. My work formed part of the John Martin Exhibiton at Tate Britain in 2011.

I have a great interest in writers of ghostly 19th century fiction and run an M.R. James site, just for fun.

Teaching

• PGCE in post-compulsory education
• Hosting seminars & summer schools for post-grads and researchers
• Delivering training via Jisc Digital Media training programme

Keywords

• metadata
• digital preservation
• conservation
• research data
• digital libraries
• repositories

Skills

• information management
• conservation
• collection management systems
• institutional repositories
• creative software applications
• developing for Android
• art & design
• augmented reality
• virtual reality
• gestural computing
• immersive environments
• film-making
• video production
• CGI modelling
• Adobe Suite
• Maya
• ARToolkit

Methodologies

• project management
• augmented reality
• gestural computing
• metadata
• collection management systems

Expertise

I have published around the conservation and the digital preservation of our cultural heritage. My special interests are the digitisation and archiving of film and television and of multimedia artworks. I have worked for the Tate art gallery and published on the importance of retaining video produced as academic research output.

Memberships

Organisations

Library Services

Links

• @ Slideshare
• @ Twitter
• @ Linked-in
• CAiRO project site
• CAiRO at JISC

Recent publications

• Merrett, K, Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, DA, Snow, K & Steer, DM, 2019, ‘The Administrative Load of Sharing Sensitive Data - Challenges and Solutions?’. International Journal of Digital Curation, vol 13., pp. 373-384
• Merrett, K, Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘The administrative load of sharing sensitive data - challenges and solutions?’.
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘Disciplinary data publication guides’. International Journal of Digital Curation, vol 13., pp. 150-160
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘Disciplinary data publication guides’.
• Hiom, D, Gray, S, Steer, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Beckles, Z, 2017, ‘Introducing safe access to sensitive data at the University of Bristol’. International Journal of Digital Curation.
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2017, ‘Making a statement: Funder-compliant data access statements and support offered at the University of Bristol’. SCONUL Focus, vol 69., pp. 30-34
• Gray, S, 2015, ‘UAV Survey Data from Clifton Camp (ST56557330), Bristol, UK’. Journal of Open Archaeology Data.
• Gray, S, 2015, ‘UAV Aerial Survey - Blackquarries Hill Long Barrow (Data Paper)’. Internet Archaeology, vol 38.
• Hiom, DA, Fripp, D, Gray, S, Snow, K & Steer, DM, 2015, ‘Research Data Management at the University of Bristol: Charting a course from project to service’. Program, vol 49., pp. 475-493
• Gray, S, 2015, ‘Above and Beyond, the drone in archeaeology’. British Archaeology.

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Networks & contacts

• JISC
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• Tate
• Bodleian Library
• British Library
• Digital Curation Center
• Digital Preservation Coalition
• DSpace at Cambridge
• Open University
• National Portrait Gallery
• VADS

Projects

• Curating Artistic Research Output (CAiRO)
• Into the Future
• JDM Seminars
• JISC Digital Media
• Kultur II: Kultivate
• data.bris