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Display Name | Herbert Van De Sompel |
First Name | Herbert |
Last Name | Van De Sompel |
Affiliation | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Twitter handle | hvdsomp |
Biography | 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 (ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004), the SFX linking server, the bX scholarly recommender service, info URI (RFC 4452), Open Annotation (W3C Community Group specification), ResourceSync (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014) and Memento "time travel for the Web" (RFC 7089). Currently, he works with his team on the Hiberlink and Robust Links efforts, and contemplates about Archiving the Web-Based Scholarly Record. |
ORCID 16 digit identifier | 0000-0002-0715-6126 |