Antony Cooper

Biography

Antony K Cooper is currently a Principal Researcher in the CSIR’s Built Environment Unit. Antony recently completed his PhD in Information Technology, entitled “An exposition of the nature of volunteered geographical information and its suitability for integration into spatial data infrastructures”, at the University of Pretoria, with Dr S. Coetzee (CGIS) and Prof DG Kourie (Computer Science) as his supervisors. In reflecting on the context, challenges and opportunities for VGI and SDIs, his research made original contributions to information science, theoretical computer science and geographical information science, developing lemmas on stability in a lattice, assessing taxonomies qualitatively and using formal concept analysis, and explaining why the Internet cannot be controlled.

Research Interest

Antony’s research interests are quite varied, including geographical information science (GISc) theory and applications, especially spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), crime mapping and analysis, volunteered geographical information (VGI), classification, addresses, metadata and quality; standards; standards development; standards lifecycle; policy development; location-aware technologies and transport modelling; formal concept analysis (FCA); palaeontology; numerical modelling of armour units around harbours; the integrated criminal and civil justice system; bloodstain pattern analysis; ethics; research and mentoring colleagues. He has also been invited to various select international seminars and workshops on crime mapping and community policing, humanitarian logistics, and bloodstain pattern analysis.