Tanya Gray

Web Software Engineer - Linked Data

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tgratgra@gmail.com
North Wiltshire, England, UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1561-7364
https://github.com/tgra https://tgra.github.io/about_me/

Summary

Web Software Engineer with experience in commercial, academic and research organisations. I am creative with excellent analytical and problems solving skills, as well as the ability to organise and prioritise my work effectively.

Keywords

MySQL . Apache . PHP . Python . HTML

JavaScript . React.js . Next.js . Node.js . JQuery . d3.js . JSON

CSS . Bootstrap

Git . GitHub . SVN

RDF . RDFS . OWL . Ontology . Vocabularies . JSON-LD . MarkLogic . Linked Data . Protege

XML . XSLT . XPath . XQuery . XProc . eXistdb . XForms . XSD

Data Standards & Ontologies . CIDOC-CRM . BIBFRAME . Galleries, Libraries & Museums . Biomedical . Bioinformatics . Digital Humanities . Digital Asset Management . ResourceSpace . Jupyter Notebooks . Pandas . OpenRefine . APIs

Skills

Core experience with LAMP stack development (Linux, Apache, MySQL, postgresql, PHP and also Python)

Experienced with IIIF data standard and the associated software and tools.

Knowledgeable in data models/standards for the biomedical sciences, and also those relevant to Libraries and the Digital Humanities, including TEI P5, IIIF, VIAF, METS/MODS, CIDOC-CRM, and BIBFRAME.

Work Experience

Research Software Engineer - Linked Data - University of Oxford (2021-09 - Present)

- Working on the Linked Art II project, working with partners in museums and galleries to develop Linked Art 'exemplars', and to implement some of these as proof of concept software implementations.

- Working with a range of digital scholars to contribute to the creation and delivery of new research projects. Working with scholars from different departments and Divisions across the University, as well as developers and practitioners from the Gardens, Libraries and Museums.

- Working on the first stages of research project development as well as building finished products for major funded research projects.

- Speaker at Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford 2022 http: //www.dhoxss.net/

Skills
  • Linked Data
  • JSON-LD
  • Data reconciliation and transformation
  • Data visualisation, D3.js, Pandas
  • Data workflow
  • Jupyter notebooks
  • Python, React, Next.js, API, XML, CSV, JSON

Web Support Analyst - Montala Limited (2019 - 2021)

- Dealing with issues and questions logged by customers.

- Fixing bugs in the software base code.

- Developing new features and fixing bugs in the software base code.

- Testing code and writing automated tests.

- Reviewing code changes from other software engineers.

Skills
  • PHP
  • Basic administration of LAMP stack
  • Linux skills
  • MySQL
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery

Software Engineer - The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2013 - 2016)

- Software development role in varied projects concerning the libraries’ digital collections.

- Development of proposal for a unified data model for the department’s digital collections.

- Data modelling

- Development of RDF vocabulary for the Ballads Online project.

- Speaker at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School in 2014/5.

Skills
  • Linked data
  • RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS
  • PHP, MySQL, Python
  • Data modelling

Education

Bioinformatics M.Sc., University of Exeter, 2002

Included 6-month research project at Dutch pharmaceutical company.

Zoology B.Sc., University of London, 1993