David Booth <david@dbooth.org>

David Booth

I am based outside of Boston and currently work as a contractor for Cleveland Clinic where I am a software architect working on their SemanticDB project, which applies semantic web technology to clinical research. Until 2009 I worked for HP, having joined when HP acquired Bluestone Software. I was a W3C Fellow from HP from 2002 to 2005, and an avid fan of the Web, Web architecture, Semantic Web technology, and the use of http URIs as universal identifiers. (See http://URIsRule.org/ ;) I have a (currently minimal) FOAF RDF file courtesy of Leigh Dodds' FOAF-a-matic. See also my resume.

A URI for David Booth, the Person

The URI http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ hereby acts as a globally unique name for the natural person named David Booth with email address dbooth@hp.com as of 1-Jan-2005 who is described above. Because the domain thing-described-by.org delegates authority for defining the meaning of URIs that are minted within its domain to whatever domain is indicated in the query string of the URI (i.e., the part after the "?"), this page (http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/) is therefore authoritative in defining the meaning of the URI http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ as a name for this particular person.

A Shorter URI for David Booth, the Person

The URI http://t-d-b.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ is hereby a synonym for http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ . This synonym relationship can be expressed formally as the RDF triple:

  http://t-d-b.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ 
    owl:sameAs
      http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ .

where "owl:" is the OWL namespace prefix "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#".

Persistent URL for David Booth

The URI http://purl.oclc.org/NET/DBOOTH/id/dbooth is hereby a synonym for http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ also.

Last updated 19-May-2009