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− | '''Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet''' ( | + | {{Infobox artist |
+ | |image = Paul_Otlet.jpg | ||
+ | |imagesize = 250px | ||
+ | |birth_date = {{birth date|1868|8|23|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |birth_place = Brussels, Belgium | ||
+ | |death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|10|1868|8|23|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |death_place = Brussels, Belgium | ||
+ | |web = [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet|Wikipedia]], [[Academia.edu::http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Paul_Otlet|Academia.edu]] | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_1936_Mondotheque.jpg|thumb|258px|''Mondothèque: Pantothèque - Mundaneum - (Documentothèque)'', 8 Jun 1936, 64 x 67 cm. [http://expositions.mundaneum.org/sites/default/files/styles/galerie_full/public/galeries/_MG_5130.jpg Reproduction at Mundaneum center].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_1937_Species_Mundaneum.jpg|thumb|258px|''Species Mundaneum'', 16 Jan 1937, 21 x 28 cm.]] | ||
+ | '''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 science|"documentation"]]. Otlet created the ''Universal Decimal Classification'', one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification. | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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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. | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp. | ||
* ''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. | * ''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. | ||
− | * ''[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. | + | * ''[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}} |
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography] | * [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography] | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
− | * W. Boyd Rayward, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization]'', 1975. | + | * 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}} |
− | * Ronald E. Day, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=652 The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power]'', SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. | + | * Ronald E. Day, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=652 The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power]'', SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. {{en}} |
− | * Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. | + | * 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. | + | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. {{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. | + | * 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}} |
+ | * 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}} | ||
* 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. ( | + | ** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}} |
+ | * 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, 127-153. {{en}} | ||
+ | * 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. {{en}} | ||
* ''Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mondaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. [http://issuu.com/impressionsnouvelles/docs/extrait_paul_otlet_site_in Excerpt], [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/paul-otlet-architecte-du-savoir-artisan-de-paix]. | * ''Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mondaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. [http://issuu.com/impressionsnouvelles/docs/extrait_paul_otlet_site_in Excerpt], [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/paul-otlet-architecte-du-savoir-artisan-de-paix]. | ||
− | * 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=P-KKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1] | + | * 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=P-KKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1] {{en}} |
− | * Alex Wright, ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/d8a2962812a741e0e623f52f39248c09#0.01 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. | + | * Alex Wright, ''[http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/d8a2962812a741e0e623f52f39248c09#0.01 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{en}} |
+ | |||
+ | ==Documentary== | ||
+ | * [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}} | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
− | * [http://mundaneum.org/ Mundaneum archive center], Mons/Bergen | + | * [http://mundaneum.org/ Mundaneum archive center], Mons/Bergen, Belgium |
* [http://snelting.domainepublic.net/category/affiliation-cat/mondotheque Mondotheque], a platform for experiments with the legacy of the universalist and documentalist Paul Otlet: drawings, images, systems, ideas. | * [http://snelting.domainepublic.net/category/affiliation-cat/mondotheque Mondotheque], a platform for experiments with the legacy of the universalist and documentalist Paul Otlet: drawings, images, systems, ideas. | ||
* [http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otletpage.htm Rayward's Otlet Page: Paul Otlet and Documentation] | * [http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otletpage.htm Rayward's Otlet Page: Paul Otlet and Documentation] |
Revision as of 14:18, 26 April 2015
Born |
August 23, 1868 Brussels, Belgium |
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Died |
December 10, 1944 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 76)
Web | Wikipedia, Using "Academia.edu" as base chain is not permitted during the annotation process. |
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.
Contents
Works
(in French unless noted)
- L'Ile du Levant, Brussels: Guyot, 1882, 39 pp.
- L'Afrique aux Noirs, Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp.
- Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge, Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp.
- Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp.
- 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.
- International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. (English)
- Full bibliography
Literature
- 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)
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (English)
- Markus Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (German)
- Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (English)
- 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)
- Yoshiyuki Yaman, Kohei Kuwada, Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum, Tokyo: Echelle-1, 2009. [1] (Japanese)
- Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [2].
- Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (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, 127-153. (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)
- Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mondaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [3].
- 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. [4] (English)
- Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014. (English)
Documentary
- Alle Kennis van de Wereld (Biography of Paul Otlet), Dutch TV, 1998, 23 min. Narrated by W. Boyd Rayward. (French)/(English)
Links
- Mundaneum archive center, Mons/Bergen, Belgium
- Mondotheque, a platform for experiments with the legacy of the universalist and documentalist Paul Otlet: drawings, images, systems, ideas.
- Rayward's Otlet Page: Paul Otlet and Documentation
- Otlet at Wikipedia