Adam Shepherd
Founder at Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Shepherd is a knowledge engineer and founder with over two decades of experience shaping data strategy, ontologies, and semantic systems to make complex information actionable. He leads technical direction at the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office while founding Harbor Light Technologies to commercialize sustainable knowledge systems that improve interoperability and decision-making. Adam builds production software across the stack—from OWL ontologies and Linked Open Data to Drupal, Go, and REST APIs—bridging research data practices with robust engineering. Creator of Science-on-schema.org, he helps map scientific resources to schema.org to increase discoverability and reuse on the open web. Based in Falmouth, MA, he combines hands-on engineering roots from Woods Hole with strategic leadership to align technical innovation with measurable business and scientific outcomes. He is notable for translating formal conceptual models into practical, open-source tools that power real-world oceanographic data discovery.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (117)
json-schema10
schema10
science10
json10
rdf10
linked-data10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
environmental9
virtuoso9
noaa9
sparql9
ocean8
csv8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ashepherd/virtuoso-docker-isql
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Scienceondrupal/dataone
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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