Biography

Professor Taylor received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Edinburgh and did postgraduate work at the University of London and Harvard University. Currently he is Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, and in International Affairs.  As well, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Research Interests

Professor Taylor’s main research interests are in the application of geospatial information management to the analysis of key socio-economic problems in a national and international context and the presentation of the results in innovative new cartographic forms. He introduced and continues to develop the new paradigm of cybercartography. His interests in cartography and international development issues are often inter-related. He has extensive field experience in developing nations, especially in Africa, which included a six year period as an education officer in rural Kenya where he completed his Ph.D. thesis on Rural Development in Murang’a District. His research interests in this area include: development studies with special reference to Africa, China and Latin America; regional and rural development theory and practice sustainable development an indigenous development strategies; technology transfer in the field of geomatics; Canada’s international policies in ODA; and technology transfer. Dr. Taylor led a major SSHRC Initiative on the New Economy project entitled “Cybercartography and the New Economy” which produced a Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica and a cybercartographic product on Canada’s Trade with the World. He was also a collaborator in an InterPARES 2 project which deals with the authentication and preservation of dynamic electronic records. Current research includes the use of Cybercartography to create a series of atlases with Inuit and other aboriginal peoples in Canada’s north and active participation in the new United Nations Initiative on Geospatial Information Management, the Open Geospatial Consortium, the Global Earth System of Systems,and the Arctic Geospatial Data Infrastructure

Recent Publications

Books

Taylor, D. R. F and Lauriault, T. P. (2013 forthcoming). Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: Applications and Indigenous Mapping. Amsterdam: Elsevieer.

 Book Chapters

Pulsifer, P. L., Laidler, G., Taylor, D. R. F., Hayes, A. (2010). Creating an Online Cybercartography Atlas of Indigenous Ice Knowledge and Use. In Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm and Gita Laidler (eds.). SIKU: Arctic Residents Document Sea Ica and Climate Change (International Polar Year Project #166). Springer, Berlin, 235-260.

Lauriault, T.P., Pulsifer, P.L. and Taylor, D.R.F., 2010  The preservation and archiving of geospatial digital data: challenges and opportunities for cartographers. In Jobst, ed. Archiving in digital cartography and geoinformation. Berlin: Springer.

Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. Global Map: International Cooperation in the Mapping Sciences in Sinha, E. A., Gundersen, L., Jackson, I, Arctur, D. K. (eds). Societal Challenges and Geoinformatics, Geological Society of America Press.

Pulsifer, P. L., Hayes, A., Fiset, J-P., Taylor, D. R. Fraser, 2008. An Open Source Development Framework in Support of Cartographic Integration in Peterson, M. (ed.). International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 165-183.

Lauriault, T.P.; Taylor, D. R. F.; Pulsifer, P. L., 2008. Will Today’s Maps be Available Tomorrow: How Action Research is Leading to the Preservation of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica..In Peterson M. (ed.) International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet, Berlin Heidelberg :Springer, 2008, 417-437.

Lauriault, T.P. and Taylor, D.R.F., 2007. Geospatial Data Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in East Timor, in Research and Theory in Advancing Data Spatial Infrastructures Concepts, Harlan Onsrud  (ed.), ESRI, 175-199.

Edited Special Issues of Scholarly Journals

Yang, C., Nebert, D., Taylor, D. R. F.  (guest editors). 2010. Special Issues on Geospatial Cyberinfrastructures and Polar Science, Computer and Geosciences.

Aporta, A., Laidler, G. and Taylor, D.R.F.(guest eds.), 2010. Special Issue of the Canadian Geographer on the Inuit Use of Sea Ice, 54 (3).

Caquard, S. and Taylor, D. R. F. (guest eds.), 2009. Special Issue of the British Cartographic Journal entitled Cinematic Cartography, 46 (1) Also online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/caj/latest, accessed April 23, 2009.

 Articles in Scholarly Journals

Taylor, D. R. Fraser (forthcoming 2013). “Preface” in Yaro (ed.). Rural Development in Northern Ghana, African Geographical Review. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Taylor, D. R. F. (forthcoming 2013). Fifty years of cartography. The Cartographic Journal, 50 (2).

Taylor, D.R. F. (2012). A New Chapter in the development of CentroGeo, GeoCybernetica, 1(1), December,www.geocybernetics.org/journal/index.php/diciembre-2012/resumen.2012-01, accessed December 24, 2012.

Engler, N. J., Scassa, T., & Taylor, D. R. F. (2013 accepted). Mapping traditional knowledge: Digital cartography in the Canadian north. Cartographica. 47:92-104.

Scassa, T., Engler, N. J., & Taylor, D. R. F. (2013 accepted). Legal issues in mapping traditional knowledge: Digital cartography in the Canadian north. The Cartographic Journal.

Pyne, S. and Taylor, D. R. F. (2012). Mapping Indigenous Perspectives in the Making of the Cybercartographic Atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty Relationship Process: A Performance Approach in a Reconcialiation Context. Cartographica Special issue on Indigenous Cartography and Counter Mapping, 47 (2): 92-104.

 Yang, C., Nebert, D. and Taylor, D. R. F. (2011). Establishing a Sustainable and Cross-boundary Geospatial Infrastructure to enable Polar Research. Computers and Geosciences, 37, 11. 1721-1726

Brauen G, Pyne S, Hayes, A., Fiset J.P., Taylor D. R. F. (2011). Encouraging transdisciplinary participation using an open source cybercartographic toolkit: The atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty relationship process. Geomatica 65(1):27–45,

Pulsifer, P.L., Laidler, G. J.; Taylor, D. R. F., Hayes, A. (2011). Towards an indigenist data management program: reflections on experiences developing an atlas of sea ice knowledge and use. Canadian Geographer special issue on the Inuit Sea Ice and Occupancy Project, 55(1): 108-124.

Taylor, D.R.F. and Pyne, S., 2009. The history and development of the theory and practice of cybercartography. International Journal of Digital Earth, online at http://www.informaworld.com first published October 27. Printed version March 2010, 3(1):1-14.

Jackson, M.J, Schell, D. and Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. Revising the concept of national spatial data infrastructure. GIS Professional, Issue 30, October: 28-30

 Jackson, M.J, Schell, D. and Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. National spatial data infrastructures – coordinating framework or battleground for the management of geospatial data. GIS Professional, 28, June, 20-23.

Caquard, S., Pyne, S, Igloliote, H., Mierins, K., Hayes, A., and Taylor, D.R.F., 2009. A “Living” Atlas for Geospatial Storytelling: The Cybercartographic Atlas of Indigenous Perspectives and Knowledge of the Great Lakes Region. Cartographica 44 (2): 83-100.

Caquard, S. and Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. What is Cinematic Cartography? The Cartographic Journal, 46(1): 5-8.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Scassa, T., Taylor, D. R. F. , Lauriault, T.P. and Engler, N.  (2013). Ethical Mapping of Traditional Knowledge through Template Licenses, AAG Annual Conference, April 13.

Lauriault, T.P. and D. R. F. Taylor, 2012, The Map as a Fundamental Source in the Memory of the World, UNESCO Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation Conference, Vancouver, B,C. Luciana Duranti and Elizabeth Shaffer (eds.) Conference Proceedings, UNESCO Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation Conference, Vancouver, B.C. available from http://www.unesco.org/webworld/download/mow/mow_vancouver_proceedings_en.pdf [March 20, 2013].

Anderson, W.L.; Faundeen, J.L., Greenberg, J; Taylor, D. R. F., 2011. Metadata for Data Rescue and Data at Work. Proceedings of PV2011, Toulouse, France, 15-17 November 2011.

Taylor, D.R.F., 2011. Creating a New International Map of the World: The Global Map Experience, 25^th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, France, July 3-8, ICC Proceedings, Memory Stick, ID CO-411.

Brauen, G., Pyne, S., Hayes, A., Fiset, J.P., Taylor, D.R.F. (2011). Encouraging Interdisciplinary Participation in Atlas Projects Using an Open Source Cybercartographic toolkit: The Atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty Relationship Process, 25^th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, France, July 3-8, ICC Proceedings, memory stick, ID CO-433.

Taylor, D. R. F., 2010. Access to and Interoperability of Geospatial Data. Presentation to CentroGEO and INEGI, Mexico City, January 20. CD-ROM.

Taylor, D.R.F., 2009. A Tool for Natural Disaster Mitigation for Asia and Pacific Regions, Presentation to United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, October, 26. E/CONF.100/IP.2, pp. 11.

Lauriault, T. P. and Taylor, D. R. F. (2009). Pilot Cybercartographic Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness, City of Ottawa, September 1.

Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. Global Mapping: A tool for natural disaster mitigation. United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas (UNRCC), New York, August 10-14. E/CONF.99/IP.7, 11 p.

Pulsifer, Peter L., Nickels, Scot, Tomlinson, Scott,  Laidler, Gita, Aporta, Claudio, Taylor, D.R. Fraser,  Hayes, Amos, (2009). Documenting Inuit Knowledge Using Distributed Information and Multimedia Interfaces: Knowledge Preservation and Sharing through Partnership. Presentation by Peter L. Pulsifer to GeoNorth 2009 Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, 4 – 6 August.

Pulsifer, P. L., Laidler, G, Taylor, D. R. F. and Hayes 2008). A Representing Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use for Education and Outreach: Creating an IPY Legacy Using Emerging Data Management Strategies., Arctic Change, Quebec City.

Taylor, D. R. F., 2 008. Maps, Mapping and Society: Some Recent Developments, Global Map Forum 2008, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. GSI Japan: CD-ROM.

Pulsifer, P. L., Laidler, G, Taylor, D. R. F. and Hayes, A Geospatial Data as a Public Commodity, Proceedings of Map Middle East, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 8-10, 2008, CD-ROM.

Taylor, D. R. F., 2008. Global Map Specifications, presentation to GSDI-10 Conference, Trinidad, February 25, CD-ROM.

Other PublicationsTaylor, D. R. F. (2011). Cybercartography in the 21st Century in conversation with Alexander Wolodtschenko and Florian Hruby, Theoretical Cartography, Vol. 4, meta-carto-semiotics.org/index.php?pages=current-4, accessed February 24, 2012.The Young Blood of Geomatics: First Person: D. R. Fraser Taylor, article about D. R. F. Taylor in Geospatial World, 1 June, 2011.

Taylor, D. R. F. “Time to Create Cyber Cooperation in Canadian Arctic”, The Hill Times, No. 1064, Monday, November 15, page 40. Also news@hilltimes.com accessed November 15, 2010

Jackson, M.J;, D.; and Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. Reinventing NSDI in India: A Place-based Technological Strategy to Respond to India’s Needs, Geospatial Today Market Report 2009, November, 124-127.

Jackson, M., Schell, D., and Taylor, D. R. F., 2009. The Evolution of Geospatial Technology Calls for Changes in Geospatial Research, Education and Government Management, Top story in  Directions Magazine, April 6,2009. http://www.directionsmag.com/author.php?author_id=568, accessed April 13, 2009.

Taylor, D.R.F., 2008. Global Map Specifications, article in Outreach Newsletter for ISO/TC 211, 2008.

Schell, D. and Taylor, D.R.F., 2008. The Science of  Interoperability. Coordinates, Vol. 4,  Issue 3, March, 18-20.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Unit

Memberships

• Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of African Studies for fifteen years and served two term as President of the Canadian Cartographic Association. Also served on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and member of the editorial boards for several learned journals. Vice President of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) from 1984-97, President from 1987-1995 and Past President in 1996. Also held the position of President of the International Union for Surveys and Mapping from 1989 to 1993.
• Member of the GEOSS Task Force on Date Sharing
• Member of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Global Advisory Council

Awards/Honours

2012 Received the Canadian Award for Environmental Innovation from The Royal CanadianGeographical Society and 3M Canada to recognize outstanding individuals in business, government, academia or community organizations whose innovative contributions to environmental change are benefiting Canada and Canadians.2008 Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation for Contributions to the Development of Geomatics in Mexico presented by Centro de Investigacion en Geografia y Geomatics “Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo”, A.C., CONACYT, Mexico City, 20081988 Honorary Life Membership, Canadian Association of African Studies

 Recent Graduate Supervisions

Ph.D.

Lauriault, Tracey (Geography): Data, Infrastructures and Geographic Imagination: Mapping Data Access  Discourses in Canada, completed 2012.

Brauen, H.Glenn. (Nov 2011) (thesis – Geography) Toward Interactive Audiovisual Cartography: Motivations, Design Strategies and Methods

Pulsifer, Peter L. (May 2008) (thesis – Geography). An Ontological Exploration of Antarctic Environmenta Governance:  Towards a Model for Geographic Information Mediation.

Mansy, Tamer (2008) (thesis-Geography). The Role of Local People and Indigenous Knowledge in the Implementation of a Participatory Development Approach in Siwa Oasis, Egypt.

 Eddy, Brian (September 1, 2006) (thesis-Geography). The Use of Maps and Map Metaphors for Integration in Geography: A Case Study in Mapping Indicators of Sustainability and Wellbeing.

 

M.A

Hayne, Kara (thesis, Geography) Applying GIS to program performance measurement and evaluation: The case of children’s community-based public health promotion programs, May 2013.Sophia Miah, completed 2009 (Geography) “Improving Standards in Bahamian High Schools: Using Geographic Information Systems as a Pedagogical Tool

Munoz Gocern, Enrique (thesis, Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática “Ing Jorge L. Tamayo”, A.C. (CentroGeo), Mexico City), co-supervisor with Dra. Maria del Carmen Reyes Guerrero. El Papel de la Cibercartografia en la Elaboración de Políticas Públicas Territoriale, 2006.

Wilson, Emily (Geography, thesis, completed December 19, 2005). Gendered Geographies and Participatory Processes – Mapping Natural Resource Use with Wapichan Women in Southern Guyana