Adam Leadbetter
Lead Manager For The Decade Coordination Office For Ocean Data Sharing
Connacht, Ireland
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Top SchoolAdam Leadbetter is a data scientist and oceanographer with 12+ years’ experience building interoperable marine metadata systems and applying Semantic Web and Linked Data techniques to environmental data. Currently leading UNESCO’s Decade Coordination Office for Ocean Data Sharing and running his own consultancy, he blends hands-on technical skills (MATLAB, C/C++, XML) with domain expertise from a PhD in Environmental Sciences. His work spans the full data lifecycle—from instrument-level interoperability and controlled-vocabulary services to provenance, trust propagation, and ontology extension—often partnering with manufacturers and global networks. A chartered marine and chartered scientist, he has a track record of translating complex ocean science into reusable, machine-actionable data products and teaching those practices through international fora. Less obvious: his career began with BASIC on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and a lifelong curiosity about creative data fitting that informs how he models and documents environmental evidence.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Oceanography with Chemistry, BSc (Hons), Oceanography with Chemistry at University of LiverpoolPhD, Environmental Sciences, PhD, Environmental Sciences at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (126)
owl10
jinja210
rdf10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
catalog9
environmental9
water9
noaa9
api9
null-safety9
json-schema9
schema9
lists9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
adamml/opm-owl
Nov 2013 - Jan 2021
Web Ontology Language (OWL) representation of the Complex Property Model (CPM)
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 years 3 months
representationlogic-programmingowlweb-ontology-languagesemantics
adamml/om-json
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 45 pushes, 4 issues in 11 months
json-encodingmeasurementsencodingobservationsjson-schema
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