David Booth <dbooth@hp.com>

David Booth 

David Booth is based outside of Boston and works for HP Software, having joined when HP acquired Bluestone Software.  He was a W3C Fellow from HP from 2002 to 2005, and he is 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.

Although HP currently employs three people named "David Booth", the David Booth described by this Web page is the one who works for HP Software and has the email address dbooth@hp.com.

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) that 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 13-Nov-2007