Dr Norman Gray
- Principal Engineer, EduTech (Science & Engineering College IT Services)
- Lecturer (School of Physics & Astronomy)
telephone:
01413307111
email:
Norman.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Personal webpage: https://nxg.me.uk
Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy (50%) Principal Engineer (educational technology), COSE (50%)
Publications
2022
Gray, N. (2022) A Student's Guide to Special Relativity. Series: Student's Guides. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108995634 (doi: 10.1017/9781108999588)
2021
Rots, A., Gray, N. and Derrière, S. (2021) Units in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Project Report. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.5083151).
2020
Gray, N. , O'Donnell, R., MacSporran, R., Oxburgh, S. and Courtial, J. (2020) Relativistic photography with a wide aperture. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision, 37(1), pp. 123-134. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.37.000123)
2019
Gray, N. (2019) A Student's Guide to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. (doi: 10.1017/9781316869659)
2016
Courtial, J. , Gray, N. , O'Donnell, R., MacSporran, R., Oxburgh, S., Hendry, M. and Cowie, E. N. (2016) Photography at relativistic speeds. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9948, 994808. (doi: 10.1117/12.2237850)
2015
Gray, N. (2015) RDF, the semantic web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan. In: Moss, M., Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Dupuis, M. J. (eds.) s Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed. Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781856048545
Jenness, T. et al. (2015) Learning from 25 years of the extensible N-Dimensional Data Format. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 146-161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.11.001)
Thomas, B. et al. (2015) Learning from FITS: limitations in use in modern astronomical research. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 133-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.009)
2014
Oxburgh, S., Gray, N. , Hendry, M. and Courtial, J. (2014) Lorentz-transformation and Galileo-transformation Windows. In: Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XVII, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, 91931K. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061415)
Demleitner, M., Derrière, S., Gray, N. , Louys, M. and Ochsenbein, F. (2014) Units in the VO. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Thomas, B. et al. (2014) Significant Problems in FITS Limit Its Use in Modern Astronomical Research. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, Waikoloa Beach HI, USA, 29 Sept - 3 Oct 2013, p. 351. ISBN 781583818541
2013
Gray, N. , Labrosse, N. , Honeychurch, S. , Draper, S. , Given, M. and Barr, N. (2013) Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice. In: Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 Jun 2013, pp. 452-458.
Accomazzi, A., Budavári, T., Fluke, C., Gray, N. , Mann, R.G., O’Mullane, W., Wicenec, A. and Wise, M. (2013) Astronomy and computing: a new journal for the astronomical computing community. Astronomy and Computing, 1, pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2012.10.001)
Gray, N. , Erdmann, C., Accomazzi, A., Soles, J., McCann, G., Cassar, M. and Biemesderfer, C. (2013) Creation and maintenance of a unified astronomy thesaurus. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts, 221,
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2013) Data management and preservation planning for big science. International Journal of Digital Curation, 8(1), pp. 29-41. (doi: 10.2218/ijdc.v8i1.247)
2012
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2012) RF6 Pecha Kucha: MaRDI-Gross: guidance for big-science DMP planning. [Audio]
Gray, N. , Carozzi, T. and Woan, G. (2012) Managing Research Data in Big Science. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)
Gray, N. (2012) URI fragments in IVOA specifications. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)
Accomazzi, A., Derriere, S., Biemesderfer, C. and Gray, N. (2012) Why don't we already have an integrated framework for the publication and preservation of all data products? In: ASP 2012 Meeting: Communicating Science, Tucson, AZ, USA, 4-8 Aug 2012,
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2012) DMP Planning for Big Science Projects. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Lambert, S., Jones, R. and Matthews, B. (2012) Supporting bespoke DMP in big science. Project Report. JISC, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.
Gray, N. (2012) Review of; K. Treimer, Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections. Records Management Journal, 22(1), pp. 81-83. [Book Review]
Gray, N. , Carozzi, T.D. and Woan, G. (2012) Managing Research Data: Gravitational Waves. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Jones, R.W.L., Bicarregui, J.C., Gray, N. , Henderson, R.C.W., Lambert, S.C. and Matthews, B.M. (2012) MaRDI-Gross: data management and preservation planning for large projects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 396(3), 032059. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032059)
2011
Seaman, R. et al. (2011) Sky Event Reporting Metadata Version 2.0. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 7(12), pp. 962-965. (doi: 10.1038/nphys2083)
Derriere, S., Gray, N. , Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2011) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.1. Other. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Gray, N. , Mann, R.G.,, Morris, D., Holliman, M. and Noddle, K. (2011) The AstroDAbis tagging service: tags and cross-matches for remote catalogues. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference (ADASS XXIII), Paris, France, 6-10 Nov 2011,
Gray, N. and Mann, R.G. (2011) A journal for the astronomical computing community? In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 655-658.
Gray, N. and Woan, G. (2011) Digital preservation and astronomy: lessons for funders and the funded. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 13-16.
Preite Martinez, A. et al. (2011) The UCD1+ Controlled Vocabulary Version 1.23. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
2010
Gray, A., Gray, N. , Hall, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)
Chalmers, S., Gray, N. , Ounis, I. and Gray, A. (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.
Graham, M., Gray, N. and Burke, D. (2010) Practical semantic astronomy. In: American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. American Astronomical Society, p. 578.
Hessman, F.V. and Gray, N. (2010) Vocabularies and semantics for VOEvent. In: Williams, R., Emery Bunn, S. and Seaman, R. (eds.) Hotwiring the Transient Universe. UNSPECIFIED.
2009
Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N. and Lusted, J. (2009) Semantic security: specification and enforcement of semantic policies for security-driven collaborations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 147, pp. 201-211. (doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-201)
Gray, A. J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025
Gray, N. , Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) SKUA - retrofitting semantics. In: Auer, S., Bizer, C. and Aastrand Grimnes, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web at ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Greece. CEUR Workshop proceedings.
Gray, N. , Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) The SKUA project and the semantic web. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Series: ASP conference series, 411. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 175-178. ISBN 9781583817025
Gray, N. , Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T. and Lusted, J. (2009) Advanced grid authorisation using semantic technologies - AGAST. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, 7-9 Dec 2009,
2008
Gray, N. and Sinnott, R.O. (2008) The AGAST project investigates semantic technologies. D-Lib Magazine, 14(11/12), (doi: 10.1045/november2008-inbrief)
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)
Gray, N. (2008) The fact and future of semantic astronomy. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 742. ISBN 9781583816585
2006
Delmotte, N. et al. (2006) IVOA Recommendation: Maintenance of the List of UCD Words Version 1.20. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
2005
Gray, N. (2005) Review Essay: Readers, Readers, Writers and Engineers, Knowledge, Power and Learning, Learning, Space and Identity. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2005.3.2.10)[Book Review]
Derriere, S., Gray, N. , Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2005) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.10. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Draper, P.W., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Giaretta, D., Rankin, S., Gray, N. and Taylor, M.B. (2005) Starlink software developments. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 22.
Gray, N. (2005) Readers, readers, writers and engineers. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238.
Gray, N. , Jenness, T., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Draper, P.W., Taylor, M.B. and Cavanagh, B. (2005) Porting the starlink software collection to GNU autotools. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 119-123.
2002
Gray, N. (2002) Absolute positioning with textpos. TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, 23(3-4), pp. 341-344.
2001
Gray, N. (2001) Automatic reduction of elliptic integrals using Carlson's relations. Mathematics of Computation, 71(237), pp. 311-319. (doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-01-01333-3)
Gray, N. and Coleman, I. J. (2001) Source reconstruction as an inverse problem. In: Menzies, J.W. and Sackett, P. D. (eds.) Microlensing 2000: a New Era of Microlensing Astrophysics: Proceedings of a meeting held at Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 February 2000. Series: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series (239). Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 204-212. ISBN 9781583810767
1998
Hendry, M.A. , Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. , Newsam, A.M. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Microlensing of extended stellar sources. New Astronomy Reviews, 42(2), pp. 125-128. (doi: 10.1016/S1387-6473(98)00033-5)
Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Inversion of polarimetric data from eclipsing binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 131(1), pp. 187-194. (doi: 10.1051/aas:1998261)
1996
Gray, N. and Brown, J.C. (1996) Prominence and flare fine structure from cross-field thermal conduction. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 307(3), pp. 955-960.
1994
Brown, J. C. and Gray, N. (1994) Spatial fragmentation of solar flare plasma and beams. Space Science Reviews, 68, pp. 93-96. (doi: 10.1007/BF00749121)
1991
Broadhurst, D.J., Gray, N. and Schilcher, K. (1991) Gauge-invariant on-shellZ 2 in QED, QCD and the effective field theory of a static quark. Zeitschrift für Physik C, 52(1), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.1007/BF01412333)
1990
Gray, N. , Broadhurst, D. J., Grafe, W. and Schilcher, K. (1990) Three-loop relation of quark MS and pole masses. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 48(4), pp. 673-679. (doi: 10.1007/BF01614703)
Articles
Gray, N. , O'Donnell, R., MacSporran, R., Oxburgh, S. and Courtial, J. (2020) Relativistic photography with a wide aperture. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision, 37(1), pp. 123-134. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.37.000123)
Courtial, J. , Gray, N. , O'Donnell, R., MacSporran, R., Oxburgh, S., Hendry, M. and Cowie, E. N. (2016) Photography at relativistic speeds. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9948, 994808. (doi: 10.1117/12.2237850)
Jenness, T. et al. (2015) Learning from 25 years of the extensible N-Dimensional Data Format. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 146-161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.11.001)
Thomas, B. et al. (2015) Learning from FITS: limitations in use in modern astronomical research. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 133-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.009)
Accomazzi, A., Budavári, T., Fluke, C., Gray, N. , Mann, R.G., O’Mullane, W., Wicenec, A. and Wise, M. (2013) Astronomy and computing: a new journal for the astronomical computing community. Astronomy and Computing, 1, pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2012.10.001)
Gray, N. , Erdmann, C., Accomazzi, A., Soles, J., McCann, G., Cassar, M. and Biemesderfer, C. (2013) Creation and maintenance of a unified astronomy thesaurus. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts, 221,
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2013) Data management and preservation planning for big science. International Journal of Digital Curation, 8(1), pp. 29-41. (doi: 10.2218/ijdc.v8i1.247)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)
Jones, R.W.L., Bicarregui, J.C., Gray, N. , Henderson, R.C.W., Lambert, S.C. and Matthews, B.M. (2012) MaRDI-Gross: data management and preservation planning for large projects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 396(3), 032059. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032059)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 7(12), pp. 962-965. (doi: 10.1038/nphys2083)
Gray, A., Gray, N. , Hall, C. and Ounis, I. (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)
Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N. and Lusted, J. (2009) Semantic security: specification and enforcement of semantic policies for security-driven collaborations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 147, pp. 201-211. (doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-201)
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)
Gray, N. and Sinnott, R.O. (2008) The AGAST project investigates semantic technologies. D-Lib Magazine, 14(11/12), (doi: 10.1045/november2008-inbrief)
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)
Gray, N. (2005) Readers, readers, writers and engineers. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238.
Gray, N. (2002) Absolute positioning with textpos. TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, 23(3-4), pp. 341-344.
Gray, N. (2001) Automatic reduction of elliptic integrals using Carlson's relations. Mathematics of Computation, 71(237), pp. 311-319. (doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-01-01333-3)
Hendry, M.A. , Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. , Newsam, A.M. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Microlensing of extended stellar sources. New Astronomy Reviews, 42(2), pp. 125-128. (doi: 10.1016/S1387-6473(98)00033-5)
Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Inversion of polarimetric data from eclipsing binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 131(1), pp. 187-194. (doi: 10.1051/aas:1998261)
Gray, N. and Brown, J.C. (1996) Prominence and flare fine structure from cross-field thermal conduction. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 307(3), pp. 955-960.
Brown, J. C. and Gray, N. (1994) Spatial fragmentation of solar flare plasma and beams. Space Science Reviews, 68, pp. 93-96. (doi: 10.1007/BF00749121)
Broadhurst, D.J., Gray, N. and Schilcher, K. (1991) Gauge-invariant on-shellZ 2 in QED, QCD and the effective field theory of a static quark. Zeitschrift für Physik C, 52(1), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.1007/BF01412333)
Gray, N. , Broadhurst, D. J., Grafe, W. and Schilcher, K. (1990) Three-loop relation of quark MS and pole masses. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 48(4), pp. 673-679. (doi: 10.1007/BF01614703)
Books
Gray, N. (2022) A Student's Guide to Special Relativity. Series: Student's Guides. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108995634 (doi: 10.1017/9781108999588)
Gray, N. (2019) A Student's Guide to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. (doi: 10.1017/9781316869659)
Book Sections
Gray, N. (2015) RDF, the semantic web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan. In: Moss, M., Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Dupuis, M. J. (eds.) s Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed. Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781856048545
Gray, N. and Mann, R.G. (2011) A journal for the astronomical computing community? In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 655-658.
Gray, N. and Woan, G. (2011) Digital preservation and astronomy: lessons for funders and the funded. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 13-16.
Graham, M., Gray, N. and Burke, D. (2010) Practical semantic astronomy. In: American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. American Astronomical Society, p. 578.
Hessman, F.V. and Gray, N. (2010) Vocabularies and semantics for VOEvent. In: Williams, R., Emery Bunn, S. and Seaman, R. (eds.) Hotwiring the Transient Universe. UNSPECIFIED.
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025
Gray, N. , Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) SKUA - retrofitting semantics. In: Auer, S., Bizer, C. and Aastrand Grimnes, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web at ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Greece. CEUR Workshop proceedings.
Gray, N. , Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) The SKUA project and the semantic web. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Series: ASP conference series, 411. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 175-178. ISBN 9781583817025
Gray, N. (2008) The fact and future of semantic astronomy. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 742. ISBN 9781583816585
Draper, P.W., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Giaretta, D., Rankin, S., Gray, N. and Taylor, M.B. (2005) Starlink software developments. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 22.
Gray, N. , Jenness, T., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Draper, P.W., Taylor, M.B. and Cavanagh, B. (2005) Porting the starlink software collection to GNU autotools. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 119-123.
Gray, N. and Coleman, I. J. (2001) Source reconstruction as an inverse problem. In: Menzies, J.W. and Sackett, P. D. (eds.) Microlensing 2000: a New Era of Microlensing Astrophysics: Proceedings of a meeting held at Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 February 2000. Series: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series (239). Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 204-212. ISBN 9781583810767
Book Reviews
Gray, N. (2012) Review of; K. Treimer, Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections. Records Management Journal, 22(1), pp. 81-83. [Book Review]
Gray, N. (2005) Review Essay: Readers, Readers, Writers and Engineers, Knowledge, Power and Learning, Learning, Space and Identity. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2005.3.2.10)[Book Review]
Research Reports or Papers
Rots, A., Gray, N. and Derrière, S. (2021) Units in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Project Report. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.5083151).
Demleitner, M., Derrière, S., Gray, N. , Louys, M. and Ochsenbein, F. (2014) Units in the VO. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Gray, N. , Carozzi, T. and Woan, G. (2012) Managing Research Data in Big Science. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Gray, N. (2012) URI fragments in IVOA specifications. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2012) DMP Planning for Big Science Projects. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Lambert, S., Jones, R. and Matthews, B. (2012) Supporting bespoke DMP in big science. Project Report. JISC, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.
Gray, N. , Carozzi, T.D. and Woan, G. (2012) Managing Research Data: Gravitational Waves. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Seaman, R. et al. (2011) Sky Event Reporting Metadata Version 2.0. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Derriere, S., Gray, N. , Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2011) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.1. Other. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Preite Martinez, A. et al. (2011) The UCD1+ Controlled Vocabulary Version 1.23. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Delmotte, N. et al. (2006) IVOA Recommendation: Maintenance of the List of UCD Words Version 1.20. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Derriere, S., Gray, N. , Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2005) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.10. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
Conference Proceedings
Oxburgh, S., Gray, N. , Hendry, M. and Courtial, J. (2014) Lorentz-transformation and Galileo-transformation Windows. In: Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XVII, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, 91931K. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061415)
Thomas, B. et al. (2014) Significant Problems in FITS Limit Its Use in Modern Astronomical Research. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, Waikoloa Beach HI, USA, 29 Sept - 3 Oct 2013, p. 351. ISBN 781583818541
Gray, N. , Labrosse, N. , Honeychurch, S. , Draper, S. , Given, M. and Barr, N. (2013) Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice. In: Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 Jun 2013, pp. 452-458.
Accomazzi, A., Derriere, S., Biemesderfer, C. and Gray, N. (2012) Why don't we already have an integrated framework for the publication and preservation of all data products? In: ASP 2012 Meeting: Communicating Science, Tucson, AZ, USA, 4-8 Aug 2012,
Gray, N. , Mann, R.G.,, Morris, D., Holliman, M. and Noddle, K. (2011) The AstroDAbis tagging service: tags and cross-matches for remote catalogues. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference (ADASS XXIII), Paris, France, 6-10 Nov 2011,
Chalmers, S., Gray, N. , Ounis, I. and Gray, A. (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.
Gray, A. J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)
Gray, N. , Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T. and Lusted, J. (2009) Advanced grid authorisation using semantic technologies - AGAST. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, 7-9 Dec 2009,
Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. and Ounis, I. (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,
Audio
Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. , Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2012) RF6 Pecha Kucha: MaRDI-Gross: guidance for big-science DMP planning. [Audio]
Teaching
Laboratories
- Physics 3 Laboratory: IT (lead) PHYS4009
Lectures
- ExCos1X: The Sun and its Radiation ASTRO1003
- General Relativity and Gravitation I (B) ASTRO5001