Peter Taylor

Research Engineer

Contact

Tel: +61 3 6232 5530
Email

Themes

• Water for a healthy country

Projects

• Water data standards
• Sensor middleware

Science Area

• Semantic Data Management

Biography

For the past 4 years, Peter Taylor has worked as a Research Engineer in the Intelligent Sensing and Systems Laboratory (ISSL) in Hobart.

He has a background in the development of time-series management systems, environmental models, and integration of sensor data streams. Prior to joining CSIRO, he worked for an environmental data management company.

Peter led an international collaboration to develop WaterML 2.0 – an open standard for the exchange of hydrological observations. WaterML2.0 was adopted as an official standard under the Open Geospatial Organisation in September 2012.

Peter is a passionate believer in the use of ICT and open data to assist in the management of natural resources and our environment. He works in a number of projects dealing with real-time sensor data, models, and web services. He is an active member of the OGC.

Achievements & Awards

2012	CSIRO ICT Team Award - South Esk Hydrological Sensor Web
2011	Australasian Pacific iAwards 2011, green and sustainability IT award - South Esk project.
2011	Australian iAwards 2011, green and sustainability. National award.
2010	CSIRO ICT Centre Innovation Award - Water Data Transfer Standards project team

Science Citizenship

Chair

OGC WaterML2.0 standards working group

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
P Taylor (Ed.) et al, OGC WaterML2.0 - part 1: timeseries standard. Open Geospatial Consortium. (opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml) 2012.
P Taylor, S Cox, G Walker, D Valentine, "Adapting standard information models for water data", International Conference on Hydroinformatics July 2012.
J Yu, P Taylor, S Cox, G Walker, "Towards Validating Observation Data In WaterML 2.0", International Conference on Hydroinformatics July 2012.
P Taylor, G Walker, D Valentine, S Cox, "WaterML2.0: Harmonising standards for water observations data", European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02-07 May 2010
N L Booth, B Brodaric, P Taylor, I Zaslavsky (2009), An OGC Hydrology and Hydrogeology Interoperability Experiment:, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN33F-09.
P Taylor, A Terhorst, S Cox, "RESTful Services for Sensor Data", European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 2011
G Walker, P Taylor, "WaterML2.0: Enabling water information exchange", OpenWater Workshops and Symposium, Delft, Netherlands, 2011.
G Walker, P Taylor, S Cox and P Sheahan "Water Data Transfer Standard (WDTF): Guiding Principles, Technical Challenges and the Future", presented at 18th World IMACS/MODSIM Congress, 2009, Cairns,Australia.
P Taylor, D Valentine, et al, "Harmonising Standards for Water Observation Data - Discussion Paper", OGC Discussion Paper. Published as document OGC09-124r2. Accessible from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml.
SM Guru, P Taylor, H Neuhaus, Y Shu, D Smith, A Terhorst, "Hydrological sensor web for the south esk catchment in the tasmanian state of australia", eScience, 2008. eScience'08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on, 432-433

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