David Wood is a Partner of Zepheira, LLC which provides solutions to effectively integrate, navigate and manage data across personal, group and enterprise boundaries. He recommends the application of disruptive technologies to maximize business opportunities. David has the privilege of leading the team designing and developing Freemix.
David has been involved with the development of Semantic Web standards, tools, products and services since 1999. He co-chaired the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group at the W3C, and was a member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is a founding member of the Kowari Metastore, Mulgara Semantic Store and Persistent URL Open Source Software projects.
Most recently, David was entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIND Laboratory within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He lead the implementation team for the Policy-Aware Web project, which developed a next generation access control system for the World Wide Web.
David founded Tucana Technologies, Inc., a purveyor of a Semantic Web database purchased by Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2005. Prior to Tucana, David founded Plugged In Software, a successful software services firm in Australia from 1995-2002.
Dr. Wood is an adjunct instructor of Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington and researches the application of recombinant data techniques to software maintenance at The University of Queensland. He has been widely published, including Programming Internet Email (O'Reilly, 1999).
Dr. Wood holds degrees in software engineering, aeronautical engineering, astronautical engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering from The University of Queensland, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and the Virginia Military Institute. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy where he served as a deep sea salvage engineer.
David may be reached at david at zepheira dot com or +1.866.725.9033.
Recent news stories related to David:
Revelytix Announces Mulgara Support in Knoodl
1. 08 Februrary 2009 Revelytix, Inc. announced the incorporation of the Mulgara RDF triple store into Knoodl.com , along with Krule, a rules engine that is built into Mulgara. Zepheira partner David Wood , a co-founder of the Mulgara project, was quoted as saying, "The Mulgara Semantic Store community welcomes Revelytix to its group of production users and appreciates Revelytix's contributions to Mulgara's Open Source code base. The Mulgara community is pleased to support Revelytix and Knoodl." Please see the entire Revelytix announcement.
Persistent URL (PURL) Server version 1.3 Released
1. 21 January 2009 The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.2 is now available. See the PURLZ Downloads area to get your copy now. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. Details are available on the PURLZ community site.
NetKernel Architects Conference Presentation Videos and Slides Available
1. 24 November 2008 The 2008 NetKernel Architects Conference was held 25-27 September 2008 at the University of Mary Washington , in Fredericksburg, VA. 1060 Research has provided videos and slides of the conference presentations. Presentations include both high and low level overviews of the architecture and features of the upcoming NetKernel 4.
PURLZ Server version 1.2 released.
2. 17 November 2008 The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.2 is now available. See the PURLZ Downloads area to get your copy now. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. Source code documentation for this distribution is available as well. Join the community to help shape the next phase of this work.
Sesame with Mulgara Now Stable
1. 23 October 2008 The Sesame RDF framework Release 2.2.1 is now available. This is the first stable release of the Sesame/Mulgara integration. Users of RDF databases now have a single API to use from tiny in-memory stores to enterprise-sized databases backed with Mulgara. For more information and to download Sesame with Mulgara, please go to http://www.openrdf.org/ . This release includes Mulgara Sail version 2.2.1.
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