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
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.
- Journal papers
Wong, M., Levett, K., Lee, A., Box, P., Simons, B., David, R., MacLeod, A., Taylor, N., Schneider, D., & Thompson, H. (2022). Development and Governance of FAIR Thresholds for a Data Federation. Data Science Journal, 21. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-013
Hansen, B.D., Dahlhaus, P.G., Milne, R.G., MacLeod, A.D., & Pitfield, C. (2019). The Natural Resource Management Planning Portal: Perspectives for NRM Planning and Reporting. Society & Natural Resources, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1559383
Dahlhaus, P.G., Nicholson, C., Ryan, B., MacLeod, A., & Milne, R. (2018). Liberating soil data for profitable agriculture and catchment health in the Corangamite region, Australia. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 61(3), 333-339. doi: 10.1080/00288233.2018.1432491
Robinson, N.J., Dahlhaus, P.G., Wong, M., MacLeod, A., Jones, D., & Nicholson, C. (2018). Testing the public‐private soil data and information sharing model for sustainable soil management outcomes. Soil Use and Management. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1559383
Dahlhaus, P., Murphy, A., MacLeod, A., Thompson, H., McKenna, K., & Ollerenshaw, A. (2016). Making the invisible visible: The impact of federating groundwater data in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 18(2), 238-255. doi: 10.2166/hydro.2015.169
Dahlhaus, P.G., Miner, A.S., MacLeod, A., & Thompson, H. (2011). A web-GIS and landslide database for south west Victoria and its application to landslide zonation. Australian Geomechanics Journal, 46(2), 203-209.
- 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
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.
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.
- Reports
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.
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, 183, 22-23.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. Ballarat, Australia: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University.
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. Ballarat, Australia: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University.
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. Melbourne, Australia: Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University.
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.