Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor

Research Engineer

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Themes

  • Water for a healthy country

Projects

  • Water data standards
  • Linked open data

Science Area

  • Sensor Science and Technology

Biography

For the past three years, Peter Taylor has worked as a Research Engineer in the CSIRO Information, Communication, and Technology Centre 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 is currently leading an international collaboration to develop WaterML 2.0 – an open standard for the exchange of hydrological observations. This initiative is operating under WIRADA and building on the development of the Australian Water Data Transfer Format.

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 and is an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Achievements & Awards

2010 ICT Centre Innovation Award - Water Data Transfer Standards project team

Science Citizenship

Chair OGC WaterML2.0 standards working group

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Peter Taylor, David Valentine, Gavin Walker, "Harmonising Standards for Water Observation Data - Discussion Paper", OGC Discussion Paper. Published as document OGC09-124r2. Accessible from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp.
Gavin Walker, Peter Taylor, Simon Cox and Paul Sheahan "Water Data Transfer Standard (IWDTF): Guiding Principles, Technical Challenges and the Future", presented at 18th World IMACS/MODSIM Congress, 2009, Cairns,Australia.
Peter Taylor, Gavin Walker, David Valentine, Simon Cox, "WaterML2.0: Harmonising standards for water observations data", European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02-07 May 2010
Andrew Terhorst, Peter Taylor, Peter Fitch and Andrew Pratt "Hydrological Sensor Webs – A new Technology Paradigm for Water Resource Management", Accepted for OzWater 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.
Peter Taylor, Andrew Terhorst, Simon Cox, "RESTful Services for Sensor Data", European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Gavin Walker, Peter Taylor, "WaterML2.0: Enabling water information exchange", OpenWater Workshops and Symposium, Delft, Netherlands, 2011.