Patrick Hochstenbach is graduate in Physics from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In 1996 he joined Herbert Van de Sompel's team at Ghent University and had a major role in the creation of the SFX Linking Server and OpenURL 0.1 standard. In 2002 he worked for 2 years at Los Alamos National Laboraries where he was involved in research on digital repositories, OAI-PMH, and MPEG-21. He currently holds a position as digital architect at Ghent University.