Dr Simon Cox
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CLAYTON SOUTH VIC 3169 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Dr Cox works on practices and standards for the publication and transfer of science data, particularly geospatial. After starting his career in geophysics and mineral exploration, with the emergence of the World Wide Web he became involved in data and informatics. Through this he has engaged with many other areas of environmental science, including water resources, marine data, meteorology, soil, ecology and biodiversity. Engagement with CODATA has extended the cross-disciplinary scope still further into social science and official statistics applications. He is principal- or co-author of a number of international standards for data. His current focus is on FAIR data, linked open data, and semantic web technologies, with a particular emphasis on formalization, publication and maintenance of controlled vocabularies and related reference data.
He was awarded the 2006 Gardels Medal by the Open Geospatial Consortium, and was selected to present the 2013 Leptoukh Lecture for the American Geophysical Union.
He is a member of Standards Australia committee IT-004 (Geographic Information), the National Committee on Data in Science, and is on the Executive Committee of the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA).
Academic Qualifications
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1987
PhD
Columbia University -
1981
MSc
Imperial College London -
1980
BA
University of Cambridge
Professional Experiences
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2012-present
Research Scientist
CSIRO Land and Water -
2010-2012
Research Scientist
CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Engineering -
2009-2010
Senior Fellow
European Commission - Joint Research Centre -
1994-2009
Research Scientist
CSIRO Exploration & Mining -
1990-1994
Lecturer
Monash University Earth Sciences -
1987-1990
Research Scientist
CSIRO Geomechanics
Achievements and Awards
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2006
Gardels Medal
Open Geospatial Consortium -
2013
Leptoukh Lecture
American Geophysical Union
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2020-present
QUDT Technical Advisory Board
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2019-present
National Committee on Data in Science
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2018-present
CODATA Executive Committee
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2018-present
CODATA Task Group on Digital Representation of Units of Measure
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2017-present
W3C Dataset eXchange Working Group
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2015-present
W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group
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2013-present
Unified Codes for Units of Measure - Advisory Board
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2012-present
Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
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2007-present
Standards Australia IT-004 - Member
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2019-2020
UNDRR/ISC Hazard Terminology and Classification working group
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2013-2016
Open Geospatial Consortium - Planning Committee
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2010-2016
Open Geospatial Consortium - Architecture Board
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2013-2015
Ocean Data Interoperability Platform - Steering Committee
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2013-2015
American Geophysical Union - Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group - Executive Board Member
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2008-2015
ISO Technical Committee 211 - Harmonized Model Maintenance Group - Member
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2005-2014
Associate editor - Computers and Geosciences
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2010-2011
ISO Technical Committee 211 - Working group on configuration management - Chair
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2008-2011
International Association of Mathematical Geosciences - Council
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2004-2008
International Union of Geological Sciences, Commission for Geoscience Information - Council
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1999-2002
Australian Government Locator Service - Advisory Board - Member
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1999-2000
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - Advisory Board - Member