Alistair Ritchie
Research Data Architect
Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAlistair Ritchie is a Research Data Architect with over a decade of experience designing standards-based information systems for earth and environmental science. A former exploration geologist, he bridges domain knowledge and informatics, leading Open Geospatial Consortium initiatives and implementing interoperable data architectures used by national soil and geoscience programs. He has led technical delivery of national repositories and interoperability experiments, pairing rigorous modelling and ontology work with pragmatic proofs-of-concept and modern deployment practices. Based in Lincoln, New Zealand, Alistair has collaborated internationally with agencies across Europe, North America and the Pacific to shape data publication standards. He avoids silver-bullet solutions, preferring a pragmatic “silver buckshot” approach that balances stability with current tooling.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Grad. Dip. Sc., Geographic Information Systems, Grad. Dip. Sc., Geographic Information Systems at The University of Western AustraliaB.Sc, M.Sc (hons), Geology, B.Sc, M.Sc (hons), Geology at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (32)
soil10
environmental9
exchange9
data-exchange8
semantics8
ecology8
geneontology6
ontology6
enterprise-architect6
python6
digital-humanities6
postgresql6
interoperability6
earth-science5
linked-open-data5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ANZSoilData/ANZSoilML
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
ANZSoilML is a data exchange schema for soil information used in the Australian and New Zealand soil sciences.
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 months
data-exchangeexchangezealandaustraliansciences
opengeospatial/SoilDataIE
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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