He earned a Masters in Library and Information Studies and a PhD in Music Information Retrieval from McGill University. Andrew specializes in working with large collections of digitized music documents, opening access to these collections by using document image recognition technologies to make them searchable. He is involved in the International Image Interoperability Framework community, a member of the board of the Music Encoding Initiative, and a collaborator on the Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis (SIMSSA) project.