Sara Wingate Gray
Researcher • Experimental Scientist
Digital / virtual libraries, archives and the future of libraries & archives in the digital realm
The Public Library
World Librarianship
Classification and categorisation models and folksonomy in a digital library world
Special collections and library 'ephemera'
The existence of poetry and sound in an ephemeral context
Poetry and sound as processed and preserved by libraries and archives
Access to knowledge under the library and archive model: incl. copyrights and copywrongs
The future of access and concurrent rights in the digital library & archive realms
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Organisation: incl. access impact
Phenomenology & Knowledge Objects
Spatial Liminality
In November 2007, as part of The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives readings programme she gave a public lecture and presentation on ‘The Poetics of the Library’, introducing some of her digital library research and ideas.
This research informs and forms the basis for practice-led activities, which include:
exploring libraries & their modes of operation
providing a unique public library service for all
doing live participatory art installations
making field recordings & digital archives
designing classification schema for interactive web platforms
writing library doctrine & other words
She enjoys attending library and digital media conferences, especially in Second Life.
As part of her Library and Archive practice-led projects, she is working on a Creative Commons licensed (©©) Digital Audio Archive of Poetry & Sound, and a Poem Repository created, curated, informed and formed by her Library and Archive theories and research.