- Account name
- 0000-0002-0715-6126
- Account service homepage
- orcid.org
- Label
- 0000-0002-0715-6126
- Account
- orcid.org/0000-0002-0715-6126#orcid-id
- FamilyName
- Van de Sompel
- Given name
- Herbert
- Inbox
- https://hvdsomp.info/inbox/
- Label
- Herbert Van de Sompel
- Page
- www.linkedin.com/in/herbertvandesompel
- www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp
- twitter.com/hvdsomp
- www.youtube.com/user/hvdsomp
- hvdsomp.info
- Personal mailbox
- hvdsomp@gmail.com
- Plan
- Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University
(Belgium), and in 2000 obtained a Ph.D. in Communication Science there. For many years,
he headed Library Automation at Ghent University. After leaving Ghent in 2000, he
was Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of
e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader
of the Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the
digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation
and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication.
Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse & Exchange
specifications (OAI-ORE), the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the
SFX linking server, the bX scholarly recommender service, and info URI. Currently,
he works with his team on the Open Annotation, Memento (time travel for the Web),
ResourceSync, and Hiberlink projects.
- Publications
- workspace-works
- SameAs
- me
- Storage
- https://hvdsomp.info/storage/