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==Works==
 
==Works==
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* ''L'Ile du Levant'', Brussels: Guyot, 1882, 39 pp. {{fr}}
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; Books and reports (selection)
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* ''[http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ L'Afrique aux Noirs]'', Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''[http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ L'Afrique aux noirs]'', Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge'', Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''Sur une forme nouvelle du livre: le livre microphotographique'', with Robert Goldschmidt, Brussels: Institut International de Bibliographie, 1906; repr. in ''IIB Bulletin'' 12 (1907), pp 61-69; repr. in ''Journal des brevets'', Jan 1907; partial repr. in ''Photorevue'', 6 Jan 1907. {{fr}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp.  {{fr}}
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** ''El libro microfotográfico: comunicación sobre los últimos trabajos técnicos referentes a las formas nuevas del libro y de los documentos'', trans. & notes Pedro Chico, Guadalajara: Publicaciones de la Revista de Escuelas Normales de Guadalajara, 1926, 14 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Monde. Essai d'Universalisme: Connaissance du Monde, Sentiments du Monde, Action organisée et Plan du Monde'', Brussels: D. Van Keerberghen et Fils, 1935, 467 pp.  {{fr}}
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** "On a New Form of the Book: The Microphotgraphic Book", in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', 1990, pp 87-95. {{en}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet]'', trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. {{en}}
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* ''Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. {{fr}}
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* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography]
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** ''Rukovodstvo k administrirovaniyu: doklad, sdelannyy na 2-m Mezhdunarodnom Kongresse Administrativnykh nauk v Bryussele v 1923 godu'' [Руководство к администрированию: доклад, сделанный на 2-м Международном Конгрессе Административных наук в Брюсселе в 1923 году], Moscow, 1924, 85 pp. {{ru}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp; repr., Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Française, 1989.  {{fr}}
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** ''El tratado de documentación: el libro sobre el libro: teoría y práctica'', trans. María Dolores Ayuso García, Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1996, 431 pp; 2nd ed., 2008. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Coo0j-8qGCoC&printsec=frontcover] [http://publicaciones.um.es/publica/servlet/um.publicaciones.ControlPublicaciones?opcion=publicacion&referencia=L6601898&origen=PUB_SIU&desde=B%26uacute%3Bsqueda%20en%20el%20cat%26aacute%3Blogo&opcion_menu=3] {{es}}
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* ''Monde. Essai d'universalisme: connaissance du monde, sentiments du monde, action organisée et plan du monde'', Brussels: D. Van Keerberghen et Fils, 1935, 467 pp.  {{fr}}
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; Selected works
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* ''Bibliometria teoria e pratica'', ed. Edson Nery da Fonseca, trans. Alda Baltaz, Ivanilda Fernandes Costa Rolim and Jose Paulo Paes, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1986, 141 pp. {{br-pt}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet]'', trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. Selection of texts covering the period 1893-1934. {{en}}
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* ''La organización documental del conocimiento: el marco documental'', 2 vols., trans. José María Izquierdo Arroyo, Madrid: Tecnidoc, 1995, 502+188 pp. Selected excerpts. {{es}}
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* ''Biblioteka, bibliografiya, dokumentatsiya: izbrannyye trudy pionera informatiki'' [Библиотека, библиография, документация: избранные труды пионера информатики], ed., forew. & comm. R.S. Giliarevsky, trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, et al., Moscow: Fair-Press: Pashkov Dom, 2004, 348 pp. {{ru}}
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; Bibliography
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* W. Boyd Rayward, "Bibliography of the Works of Paul Otlet", in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', 1990, pp 221-243.
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* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Compiled by W. Boyd Rayward]
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
===Books, dissertations===
 
===Books, dissertations===
 
* W. Boyd Rayward, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization]'', Moscow: All-Union institute for scientific and technical information (VINITI), 1975. {{en}}
 
* W. Boyd Rayward, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization]'', Moscow: All-Union institute for scientific and technical information (VINITI), 1975. {{en}}
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** ''Universum informatsii. Zhizn' i deyatel'nost' Polya Otle'' [Универсум информации. Жизнь и деятельность Поля Отле], intro. & trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, Moscow: Knjiga, 1976, 401 pp. {{ru}}
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* Paul Schneiders, ''De bibliotheek en documentatie beweging 1880-1914: bibliografische on dernemingen rond 1900'', University of Amsterdam, 1982. Dissertation, unpublished. {{nl}}
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* W. Boyd Rayward, ''Hasta la documentación electrónica'', trans., ed. & intro. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarau, 2000, 387 pp. {{es}}
 
* Ronald E. Day, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=652 The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power]'', SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. {{en}}
 
* Ronald E. Day, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=652 The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power]'', SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. {{en}}
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* Yoshiyuki Yaman, Kohei Kuwada, ''Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum'', Tokyo: Echelle-1, 2009. [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=7871&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=8&itemSort=en-en_sort_date1%20DESC%20&itemCount=57&sysParentName=&sysParentId=46] {{jp}}  
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* Yoshiyuki Yamana, Kōhei Kuwada, ''Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum'' [ムンダネウム], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2009, 120 pp. [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=7871&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=8&itemSort=en-en_sort_date1%20DESC%20&itemCount=57&sysParentName=&sysParentId=46] {{jp}}  
 
* Charlotte Dubray (ed.), ''Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. [http://issuu.com/lesimpressionsnouvelles/docs/mundaneum-extrait Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/le-mundaneum/].
 
* Charlotte Dubray (ed.), ''Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. [http://issuu.com/lesimpressionsnouvelles/docs/mundaneum-extrait Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/le-mundaneum/].
 
** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}}
 
* Jacques Gillen (ed.), ''Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix'', Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. [http://issuu.com/impressionsnouvelles/docs/extrait_paul_otlet_site_in Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/paul-otlet/] Review: [http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2010-06-0093-013 Rouyer-Gayette] (2010).  
 
* Jacques Gillen (ed.), ''Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix'', Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. [http://issuu.com/impressionsnouvelles/docs/extrait_paul_otlet_site_in Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/paul-otlet/] Review: [http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2010-06-0093-013 Rouyer-Gayette] (2010).  
 
* Wouter Van Acker, ''Universalism as utopia: a historical study of the schemes and schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)'', Zelzate University Press, 2011. Dissertation. [http://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/pug01:1942681]
 
* Wouter Van Acker, ''Universalism as utopia: a historical study of the schemes and schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)'', Zelzate University Press, 2011. Dissertation. [http://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/pug01:1942681]
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* Frank Hartmann (ed.), ''Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung'', Berlin: Avinus, 2012, 202 pp. {{de}}
 
* Alex Wright, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/d8a2962812a741e0e623f52f39248c09#0.01 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{en}}
 
* Alex Wright, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/d8a2962812a741e0e623f52f39248c09#0.01 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{en}}
  
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* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. {{de}}
 
* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. {{de}}
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. {{en}}
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* W. Boyd Rayward, [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/TransnationalAssociations.pdf "Knowledge Organisation and a New World Polity"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (2003), pp 4-15.
 
* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. {{en}}
 
* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. {{en}}
 
* Bernd Frohmann, "The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet’s Modernist Project of Documentation", in ''European Modernism and the Information Society'', ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 75-87. {{en}}
 
* Bernd Frohmann, "The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet’s Modernist Project of Documentation", in ''European Modernism and the Information Society'', ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 75-87. {{en}}
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* [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/publications-autour-du-mundaneum More]
 
* [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/publications-autour-du-mundaneum More]
  
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==Documentary==
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===Bibliography===
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* [http://archive.org/details/paulotlet Alle Kennis van de Wereld (Biography of Paul Otlet)], Dutch TV, 1998, 23 min. Narrated by W. Boyd Rayward. {{fr}}/{{en}}
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* W. Boyd Rayward, "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources", in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', 1990, pp 243-250.
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* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources"], compiled by W. Boyd Rayward.
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* [http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/otletbib.html Compiled by Michael Buckland].
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==Documentaries==
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* [http://archive.org/details/paulotlet Alle Kennis van de Wereld: het Papieren Internet], Dutch TV, 1998, 23 min. Narrated by W. Boyd Rayward. {{fr}}/{{en}}
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* ''The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World'', dir. Françoise Levie, 2002.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==

Revision as of 16:50, 27 August 2015

Born August 23, 1868(1868-08-23)
Brussels, Belgium
Died December 10, 1944(1944-12-10) (aged 76)
Brussels, Belgium
Web Wikipedia, Using "Academia.edu" as base chain is not permitted during the annotation process.
Mondothèque: Pantothèque - Mundaneum - (Documentothèque), 8 Jun 1936, 64 x 67 cm. Reproduction at Mundaneum center.
Species Mundaneum, 16 Jan 1937, 21 x 28 cm.
International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, 1990, Log, IA.

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (1868–1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist. He is one of the founders of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.

Works

Books and reports (selection)
  • L'Afrique aux noirs, Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. (French)
  • Sur une forme nouvelle du livre: le livre microphotographique, with Robert Goldschmidt, Brussels: Institut International de Bibliographie, 1906; repr. in IIB Bulletin 12 (1907), pp 61-69; repr. in Journal des brevets, Jan 1907; partial repr. in Photorevue, 6 Jan 1907. (French)
    • El libro microfotográfico: comunicación sobre los últimos trabajos técnicos referentes a las formas nuevas del libro y de los documentos, trans. & notes Pedro Chico, Guadalajara: Publicaciones de la Revista de Escuelas Normales de Guadalajara, 1926, 14 pp. (Spanish)
    • "On a New Form of the Book: The Microphotgraphic Book", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 87-95. (English)
  • Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. (French)
    • Rukovodstvo k administrirovaniyu: doklad, sdelannyy na 2-m Mezhdunarodnom Kongresse Administrativnykh nauk v Bryussele v 1923 godu [Руководство к администрированию: доклад, сделанный на 2-м Международном Конгрессе Административных наук в Брюсселе в 1923 году], Moscow, 1924, 85 pp. (Russian)
  • Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp; repr., Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Française, 1989. (French)
    • El tratado de documentación: el libro sobre el libro: teoría y práctica, trans. María Dolores Ayuso García, Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1996, 431 pp; 2nd ed., 2008. [1] [2] (Spanish)
  • Monde. Essai d'universalisme: connaissance du monde, sentiments du monde, action organisée et plan du monde, Brussels: D. Van Keerberghen et Fils, 1935, 467 pp. (French)
Selected works
  • Bibliometria teoria e pratica, ed. Edson Nery da Fonseca, trans. Alda Baltaz, Ivanilda Fernandes Costa Rolim and Jose Paulo Paes, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1986, 141 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. Selection of texts covering the period 1893-1934. (English)
  • La organización documental del conocimiento: el marco documental, 2 vols., trans. José María Izquierdo Arroyo, Madrid: Tecnidoc, 1995, 502+188 pp. Selected excerpts. (Spanish)
  • Biblioteka, bibliografiya, dokumentatsiya: izbrannyye trudy pionera informatiki [Библиотека, библиография, документация: избранные труды пионера информатики], ed., forew. & comm. R.S. Giliarevsky, trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, et al., Moscow: Fair-Press: Pashkov Dom, 2004, 348 pp. (Russian)
Bibliography

Literature

Books, dissertations

  • W. Boyd Rayward, The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization, Moscow: All-Union institute for scientific and technical information (VINITI), 1975. (English)
    • Universum informatsii. Zhizn' i deyatel'nost' Polya Otle [Универсум информации. Жизнь и деятельность Поля Отле], intro. & trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, Moscow: Knjiga, 1976, 401 pp. (Russian)
  • Paul Schneiders, De bibliotheek en documentatie beweging 1880-1914: bibliografische on dernemingen rond 1900, University of Amsterdam, 1982. Dissertation, unpublished. (Dutch)
  • W. Boyd Rayward, Hasta la documentación electrónica, trans., ed. & intro. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarau, 2000, 387 pp. (Spanish)
  • Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (English)
  • Yoshiyuki Yamana, Kōhei Kuwada, Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum [ムンダネウム], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2009, 120 pp. [3] (Japanese)
  • Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [4].
  • Jacques Gillen (ed.), Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix, Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [5] Review: Rouyer-Gayette (2010).
  • Wouter Van Acker, Universalism as utopia: a historical study of the schemes and schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944), Zelzate University Press, 2011. Dissertation. [6]
  • Frank Hartmann (ed.), Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung, Berlin: Avinus, 2012, 202 pp. (German)
  • Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014. (English)

Book chapters, articles

  • W. Boyd Rayward, "The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography / International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 22-33. (English)
  • Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, "P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Perspective in the History of Documentation and Information Science", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 34-42. (English)
  • Ron Day, "Paul Otlet's Book and the Writing of Social Space", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48:4 (1997), pp 310-317; repr. in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 43-50. (English)
  • W. Boyd Rayward, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1968-1944) and Hypertext", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 65-80. (English)
  • Markus Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (German)
  • W. Boyd Rayward, "Knowledge Organisation and a New World Polity", Transnational Associations 1-2 (2003), pp 4-15.
  • Nader Vossoughian, "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier", Transnational Associations 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. (English)
  • Bernd Frohmann, "The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet’s Modernist Project of Documentation", in European Modernism and the Information Society, ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 75-87. (English)
  • Pieter Uyttenhove, Sylvia Van Peteghem, "Ferdinand van der Haeghen’s shadow on Otlet: European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office International de Bibliographie", in European Modernism and the Information Society, ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 89-103. (English)
  • Pierre Chabard, "Towers and Globes: Architectural and Epistemological Differences between Patrick Geddes’s Outlook Towers and Paul Otlet’s Mundaneums", in European Modernism and the Information Society, ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 105-125. (English)
  • Charles van den Heuvel, "Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: Otlet's Visualizations of a Global Information Society and His Concept of a Universal Civilization", in European Modernism and the Information Society, ed. W. B. Rayward, London: Ashgate, 2008, pp 127-153. (English)
  • Charles van den Heuvel, "Mundaneum", Volume 15: "Destination Library", Spring 2008, pp 48-53. (English)
  • Charles van den Heuvel, "Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web in Research from a Historical Perspective: The Designs of Paul Otlet (1868-1944) for Telecommunication and Machine Readable Documentation to Organize Research and Society", Knowledge Organization 36:4 (2009), pp 214-226. (English)
  • W. Boyd Rayward, "Introduction: International Exhibitions, Paul Otlet, Henri La Fontaine and the Paradox of the Belle Epoque", in Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Epoque, ed. W. Boyd Rayward, Ashgate, 2014, pp 1-22. [7] (English)
  • More

Bibliography

Documentaries

Links

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