Erik Oltmans received his M.A. degree from Nijmegen University in 1994 and his Ph.D degree from the University of Twente in 1999, both in the fields of natural language processing and knowledge management. He joined the Dutch Telematica Institute in 2000, where he was involved in several content engineering projects. From 2000 to 2002 he chaired the MPEG-7 working group on Metadata Integration. As of 2003 Erik works for the national library of the Netherlands, first as head of the e-Depot department, and since recently as head of the Acquisitions and Processing Division. In his current position Erik is responsible for both strategic issues as well as operational matters regarding the KB e-Depot.