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Andrew MacLeod

Andrew MacLeod

Manager Technical Projects

Andrew is the Manager, Technical Projects at CeRDI.  Andrew completed a Bachelor of Computing at the University of Ballarat, followed by an Honors in Applied Science (Information Technology). Employed at CeRDI since 1999 and leading the technical team since 2002, Andrew has extensive experience in web and geospatial technologies with a particular interest in data standards and interoperability. While much of his work is applied within Australia, Andrew has been an active participant in several Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) domain working groups, standards working groups and interoperability experiments across Soils, Groundwater and Environmental data. Currently enrolled as a PhD candidate supported by the Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre, focused on the application of semantic interoperability within Agriculture and Food.  

Andrew commenced his PhD with CeRDI in June 2021.

Call: 03 5327 9315
Email: a.macleod@federation.edu.au
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4834-5481


Advancing syntactic and semantic interoperability for data in the agricultural and food industries
Advancing syntactic and semantic interoperability for data in the agricultural and food industries

Access to data provides the fuel for next generation decision support systems, and opportunities for sharing data across national and international borders, and across government, industry and academic sectors, have never been greater.

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  • Conference papers and abstracts

    Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Simons, B., Robinson, N., Gillett, H., Neyland, A., Milne, R., Corbett, J., & Dahlhaus, P. (2021, July 5-6). Enabling soil data re-use for ecosystem management and decision making: A standards-based approach [Conference presentation]. TERN Science Symposium, Online.

    Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Simons, B., Robinson, N., Gillett, H., Sexton, A., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Thompson, H., Neyland, A., Milne, R., Corbett, J., & Dahlhaus, P. (2021, July 19-23). Maximising the value of soil data: Challenges and solutions we employed. Focus: User cases of farming grower groups and Catchment Management Authorities [Conference presentation]. ESIP Summer Meeting, Online.

    Box, P., Wong, M., Simons, B., Levett, K., Lee, A., Thompson, H., Epstein, J., MacLeod, A. (2020). Building AgReFed: A reusable socio-technical design for community governance and data stewardship. Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science C3DIS 2020, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 16-20 March 2020. www.c3dis.com/3939

    Levett, K., Wong, M., Box, P., Simons, B., Thompson, H., Macleod, A., David, R., Schneider, D., Watkins, D., Hergenhan, R., Gregory, L., Wilson, P., Taylor, N., Limmer, S., Gillett, H., Cox S. (2019) Implementing FAIR in the Agricultural Research Federation. eResearch Australasia Conference. Brisbane, Australia. 21-23 Oct 2019.

    Robinson, N., Dahlhaus, P., Feely, P., Light, K., MacLeod, A., Milne, R., Parker, J., Thompson, H., Walters, J. & Wills, B. (2019) Online Farm Trials (OFT) – the past, present and future. Cells to Satellites. 19th Australian Agronomy Conference, 25 – 29 August 2019, Wagga Wagga, NSW.

    Robinson, N., Thompson, H., Dahlhaus, P., Feely, P., MacLeod, A., Wong, M. & Walters, J.  (2019) What’s FAIR about Digital Agriculture?  steeDA, Conference on science, technology, engineering and economics for Digital Agriculture, 3-5 December 2019, The University of Sydney, Australia.

    Dahlhaus, P.G., MacLeod, A., & Simons, B. (2018). The challenges of making groundwater data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Groundwater and Life: Science and Technology into Action. 45th IAH Congress, September 9th - 14th, 2018, Daejeon, Korea. International Association of Hydrogeologists.

    Dahlhaus, P.G., Simons, B., Wong, M., MacLeod, A., & Robinson, N. (2018). Making soils data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. SOIL: The key to the past, the present and the future. National Soils Conference, November 18th - 23rd, Canberra, Australia. Soil Science Australia.

    Dahlhaus, P.G. & MacLeod, A. (2017). Towards data democracy in groundwater science. Australian Groundwater Conference, 11-13th July 2017, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Book of Abstracts p.169.

    Dahlhaus P.G., Thompson H. & MacLeod A. (2017). Towards data democracy in digital agriculture. Proceedings of the 2017 Agronomy Australia Conference, 24-28 September 2017, Ballarat, Australia. http://agronomyaustraliaproceedings.org/images/sampledata/2017/121_ASA2017_Dahlhaus_Peter_Final.pdf

    Mendes de Jesus, J., Ribeiro, E., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Ritchie, A., Wilson, P., Dahlhaus, P., Gregory, L., MacLeod, A., & Simons, B. (2017). SoilML data exchange format and soil web services. Pedometrics 2017, 26 June-1 July (2017), Wageningen, The Netherlands.

    Schaap, B., Mendes De Jesus, J.S., Ribeiro, E., Van Egmond, F.M., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Ritchie, A., Wilson, P., Baritz, R., Dahlhaus, P., Gregory, L., MacLeod, A., & Simons, B. (2017). Towards global soil data interoperability: GODAN soil data WG and SoilML (open) data exchange format. Soil Science in a Changing World, Wageningen Soil Conference, 27th - 31st August 2017, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Book of Abstracts (eds. J. Wallinga, G. Mol, T. Mulder, A. Zaal & B. Jansen) (ISBN 978-94-6343-061-6) p.112 www.wur.nl/upload_mm/3/a/3/11191a74-6ccc-40a6-b109-b7b24487fe2f_2017_WSC_Book%20of%20Abstracts_Final_web.pdf

    Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., & Thompson, H. (2016). Discovering the known unknowns: interoperably federating data to reduce the risk of past mistakes. EcoForum conference and exhibition (Australasian Land and Groundwater Association). 25-28 October, Freemantle, Australia.

    Dahlhaus, P., Grellet, S., Brodaric, B., Boisvert, E., Simons, B., Kmoch, A., Lucido, J., Wagner, B., Letourneau, F., & MacLeod, A. (2016). The Groundwater Interoperability Experiment 2: developing an international groundwater data exchange standard. 43rd IAH International Congress 'Groundwater and society: 60 years of IAH', 25-29 September 2016, Montpellier, France. Abstract 2223 www.cfh-aih.fr/images/DOCS/2-Colloques/Colloque_2016_Montpellier/Site_web/IAH2016_AbstractBOOK.pdf

    Dahlhaus, P., Nicholson, C., Ryan, B., MacLeod, A., & Milne, R. (2016). Liberating soil data for profitable agriculture and catchment health in the Corangamite region, Australia. 'Soil, a balancing act downunder'. A joint conference of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science and Soil Science Australia. 12–16 December, Queenstown, New Zealand. Oral Abstracts, p. 54.

    Hansen, B., Feely, P., Abeywickrema, S., Plucinski, P., Gillett, H., & MacLeod, A. (2016). EstuaryWatch and WaterWatch portals: a collaborative research partnership to develop online tools to enhance citizen science, data collection and provision, and information sharing. Australian Society for Limnology Conference, 26-30 September 2016, Ballarat.

    Hansen, B., Pitfield, C., MacLeod, A., Novak, C., Nilsson, K., Dahlhaus, P., & Thompson, H. (2016). South West Climate Change Portal: using internet knowledge sharing and novel visualisations to engage community with climate science. Climate Adaptation 2016, 5-7 July 2016, Adelaide.

    Ritchie, A., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Wilson, P., Simons, B., Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Roudier, P., Gregory, L., & Watson, B. (2016). Developing a global soil data infrastructure - The Open Geospatial Consortium Soil Data Interoperability Experiment. Soil, a Balancing Act Downunder. Joint conference of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science and Soil Science Australia. 12-16 December 2016, Queenstown, New Zealand. Oral Abstracts, p. 112.

    Dahlhaus, P., Murphy, A., MacLeod, A., Thompson, H., & McKenna, K. (2015). Changing practices: the impact of making groundwater data visible through an interoperative web portal in Victoria, Australia. AQUA2015, 42nd IAH Congress, September 13-18, 2015, Rome, Italy.

    Dahlhaus, P., Milne, R., Hansen, B., MacLeod, A., Thompson, H., Murphy, A., & Graymore, M. (2015). The NRM Planning Portal: matching regional and local priorities to identify partnership opportunities in catchment management. Australian Citizen Science Conference 2015: Maximising the Capacity of Citizen Science for Science and Society, 23-24 July 2015, Canberra, Australia.

    Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., McKenna, K., & Thompson, H. (2014). Creating virtual groundwater research laboratories through interoperable technologies. Paper presented at 41st IAH Congress on Groundwater : Challenges and Strategies, 15-19 September 2014, Marrakech, Morocco.

    Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., McKenna, K., Milne, R., & Thompson, H. (2014). Online information to maximise soil health. Abstracts pp.80–81. Digital Rural Futures Conference, Regional Futures. Agricultural Futures. Digital Futures, 25–27 June 2014, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.

    Milne, R., Dahlhaus, P., Nicholson, C., Thompson, H., MacLeod, A., Feely, P., McCue, T., Gillett, H., & Corbett, J. (2014). On-line Farm Trials: a research repository for Australian grain growers. Paper presented at Digital Rural Futures, Regional futures - Agricultural Futures - Digital Futures, 25-27 June 2014, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Abstracts, pp.20-21.

    Thompson, H., Dahlhaus, P., & MacLeod, A. (2014). The hype and the hope: progressing towards big data insights for regional communities. Paper presented at Digital Rural Futures, Regional futures - Agricultural Futures - Digital Futures, 25-27 June 2014, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Abstracts, p.53.

  • Reports and other publications

    Dahlhaus, P., Bahlo, C., & MacLeod, A. (2021). Accessing Australian soil carbon data. Research report for Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, Final report 14 May 2021. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University Australia. 95p.

    Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Simons, B., Bahlo, C., Sexton, A., Thompson, H., Wong, M., Robinson, N., Milne, R., Neyland, A., Gillett, H., & Ollerenshaw, A. (2021). Visualising Australasia’s Soils: A Soil CRC Interoperable Spatial Knowledge System. Phase 1 (2019 – 2021). Project 2.3.001 Final Report. Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC). 119p. https://soilcrc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FINAL_REPORT_2_3_001_DAHLHAUS_FINAL.pdf 

    Dahlhaus P.G., MacLeod A., Ferguson D., Walters D. & Feely P. (2020) Arsenic data in the Victorian Central Goldfields Region: a text mining and data extraction experiment.  Research report for EPA Victoria, 21 December 2020.  Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University Australia.  11p.

    MacLeod, A., Wong, M., Gregory, L., Schneider, D., Williams, A., Castleden, I., Simons, B., Levett, K., & Box, P. (2020, May 13). The Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed) Technical and Information Policy Suite (Version 1.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3993784

    Dahlhaus, P.G., Bennett, J.M., Corbett, J., Crawford, D., Grelet, G., Imhof, M., MacLeod, A., Mele, P.M., Stevenson, B., Wells, N., & Wong, M. (2018). A review of indicators of soil health and function: Farmers' needs and data management. Newcastle, Australia: Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils, June 2018, 200p.

    Dahlhaus, P., Nicholson, C., Ryan, B., MacLeod, A., & Milne, R. (2017). Federating Private and Public Soil Data: The Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base Project. Profile. Issue 183, March 2017. Soil Science Australia newsletter. pp:22-23 ISSN:2207-4082

    Murphy, A., Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Thompson, H., McKenna, K., Ollerenshaw, A., Corbett, J., & McDonald, K. (2015). Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater: researching and analysing Impact. Phase 1, first wave research report prepared for the Collaborative Internet Innovation Fund. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation. Federation University Australia.

    Murphy, A., Dahlhaus, P., MacLeod, A., Thompson, H., McKenna, K., Tsilemanis, A., Ollerenshaw, A., & Corbett, J. (2015). Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) and Visualising Ballarat – eResearch (First Wave) extended timeframe research study. Report prepared for City of Ballarat and UNESCO. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation. Federation University Australia.

    Symons, J., Jones, R.N., Milne, R., & MacLeod, A. (2015). Economic Geography of Bushfire and Flood Vulnerability in Victoria at the Statistical Local Area Scale, Climate Change Working Paper No. 26. Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

    Thompson, H., MacLeod, A., Feely, P., & Corbett, J. (2011). City of Ballarat and Golden Plains Shire GIS strategic planning: Consultation outputs. Ballarat, Australia: Centre for eCommerce and Communications, University of Ballarat.

    Bateman, R., Thompson, H., MacLeod, A., Stranieri, A., & Payne, W. (2009). Review of current ICT in NSOs with a view to enhancing future eCapability. Ballarat, Australia: Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, University of Ballarat.

     

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