Erik Wilde is currently working at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), which is part of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. His interest in general are Web technologies, with a special focus on content-related standards such as XML/XLink/XPointer. When he is not reading new standards, he gives lectures or courses, tries to make some progress with his book projects, works on a research project dealing with flexibly and effectively applying the topic map metaphor to the Web, or spends some time as consultant for companies seeking help or advice with Web- and XML-related projects.