 In 2017, Van de Sompel received the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).From 2002 to the end of 2018, Van de Sompel held positions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, including as the Lead of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team.Notable work includes the Memento Project, which aims to make accessing archived web content as easy as visiting current web pages.