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Herbert Van de Sompel

Herbert Van de Sompel

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Computer Science

D-Index
44
Citations
9429
World Ranking
7500
National Ranking
73

Overview

Herbert Van de Sompel is affiliated with Data Archiving and Networked Services in the Netherlands, contributing to the field of Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields including Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Molecular Biology, and Information Systems and Management. The primary focus of their work involves Research Data Management Practices, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Web Data Mining and Analysis, Caching and Content Delivery, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, and Mobile Agent-Based Network Management.

Their notable publications include:

  • A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Hashes are not suitable to verify fixity of the public archived web, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Event Notifications in Value-Adding Networks, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Event Notifications and Event Logs, 2025, International Journal of Digital Curation
  • Practical webby FDOs With RO-Crate and FAIR Signposting, 2025, Open Conference Proceedings

These publications reflect work on digital curation, web archiving, event notifications, and FAIR data principles.

Herbert Van de Sompel has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Patrick Hochstenbach
  • Ruben Verborgh
  • Michael L. Nelson
  • Miel Vander Sande
  • Ruben Dedecker

Their work has appeared in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Digital Curation
  • Open Conference Proceedings
  • portal Libraries and the Academy

Herbert Van de Sompel's research addresses various aspects of digital preservation, web data analysis, and semantic web technologies. Their contributions span data management systems and methodologies that support the curation and accessibility of digital information across different domains within Computer Science.

Best Publications

  • Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community

    Xiaoming Liu;Johan Bollen;Michael L. Nelson;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures.

    Johan Bollen;Herbert Van de Sompel;Aric A. Hagberg;Ryan Chute

  • The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework

    Carl Lagoze;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

    Carl Lagoze;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • Rethinking scholarly communication : building the system that scholars deserve

    Herbert van de Sompel;Sandy Payette;John Erickson;Carl Lagoze

  • Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: a comparison of download and citation data

    Johan Bollen;Herbert Van de Sompel;Joan A. Smith;Rick Luce

  • Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science

    Johan Bollen;Herbert Van de Sompel;Aric Hagberg;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • Resource harvesting within the OAI-PMH framework

    Herbert Van de Sompel;Michael L. Nelson;Carl Lagoze;Simeon Warner

  • The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative

    Herbert Van de Sompel;Carl Lagoze

  • Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework

    Herbert Van de Sompel;Oren Beit-Arie

  • A Spectrum of Interoperability: The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL

    William Y. Arms;Diane Hillmann;Carl Lagoze;Dean B. Krafft

  • Scholarly context not found: one in five articles suffers from reference rot.

    Martin Klein;Herbert Van de Sompel;Robert Sanderson;Harihar Shankar

  • Reference linking in a hybrid library environment: part 1: frameworks for linking

    Herbert Van De Sompel;Patrick Hochstenbach

  • HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States - Memento

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  • Memento: Time Travel for the Web

    Herbert Van de Sompel;Michael L. Nelson;Robert Sanderson;Lyudmila L. Balakireva

  • Usage impact factor: The effects of sample characteristics on usage-based impact metrics

    Johan Bollen;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

    Herbert Van de Sompel

  • Using MPEG-21 DIDL to represent complex digital objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library

    Jeroen Bekaert;Patrick Hochstenbach;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives

    Herbert Van de Sompel;Thomas Krichel;Michael L. Nelson;Patrick Hochstenbach

  • Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - v.2.0

    Carl Lagoze;Herbert Van de Sompel;Michael Nelson;Simeon Warner

  • Advanced overview of version 2.0 of the open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting

    Michael L. Nelson;Herbert Van de Sompel;Simeon Warner

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Bollen
Johan Bollen Indiana University
Carl Lagoze
Carl Lagoze University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Hunter
Jane Hunter University of Technology Sydney
Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Luís M. A. Bettencourt University of Chicago
Alice M. Agogino
Alice M. Agogino University of California, Berkeley
Allan R. Robinson
Allan R. Robinson Harvard University
Alyssa A. Goodman
Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Richard A. L. Jones
Richard A. L. Jones University of Manchester

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