Herbert Van de Sompel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Herbert Van de Sompel
Occupation	Librarian
Date Of Birth	Mar 20, 1957(1957-03-20)
Age	67
Birthplace	Ghent
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Aries

Herbert Van de Sompel Biography

Herbert Van de Sompel is one of the most popular and richest Librarian who was born on March 20, 1957 in Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium. Van de Sompel was born March 20, 1957 in Ghent, Belgium. His Ph.D dissertation in 2000 developed the idea of context-sensitive and dynamic linking of scholarly information resources. In this work, he developed the “concepts underlying the OpenURL framework for open reference linking in the web-based scholarly information environment.” Van de Sompel’s OpenURL framework allowed for the development of software known as link resolvers which take metadata about a source and attempt to find its full text. Link resolver web services have become widely used within academic libraries. His Ph.D dissertation and later development of the OpenURL standard led to the development and commercialization of the SFX link resolver and a series of products for libraries using this approach pioneered by Van de Sompel.

Herbert Van de Sompel Net Worth

Herbert Van de Sompel is one of the richest Librarian from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Herbert Van de Sompel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2006 Van de Sompel was named the first recipient of the SPARC Innovator Award by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) for starting the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the open reference linking framework (OpenURL). In 2017, Van de Sompel received the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

Van de Sompel long worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, including as the Lead of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team. Notable recent work includes the Memento Project, which aims to make accessing archived web content as easy as visiting current web pages. Since 2019, he has served as chief innovation officer of Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) in The Netherlands.

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Herbert Ranked on the list of most popular Librarian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Herbert Van de Sompel celebrates birthday on March 20 of every year.