David Peterson
Semantic Web Research & Development

email: david@boab.info
skype: david.seth.p
mobile: 0407 471561
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blog: SitePoint

I have been employed in the Web industry for 12 years. I first started working as a designer and HTML developer. My role started to shift when Future Splash was released. My role shifted rapidly into Web based multimedia and design. CSS was not yet widely adopted across platforms. but again, I started experimenting with it.

By 1999 I started moving into a more Web development role, working with ASP/Access/MS SQL developing small Web based apps. CSS was starting to wake up so I integrated it (along with FONT tags for the bad browsers) into my projects.

In early 2000 I moved to Australia with my wife and started working with a BoaB in multimedia and design. ASP.NET was in late beta stage and I was able to negotiate early access our CMS.

In late 2004 I started working with XMLHttpRequest and Javascript (later to be known as AJAX) on a large project for one of our science clients. I hand-crafted a lot of it as there was no widely-used toolkits then. Dojo was just beginning to emerge and by the time the project was finished I was using Dojo .4 extensively. I am now upgrading the system to Dojo 1.0.

My focus is now Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web. We are working on many interesting and ground-breaking projects that integrate Semantic Web technologies into scientific research to create a more open, collaborative Web platform.

Check out my blog at SitePoint, the main focus is practical uses of the Semantic Web.