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[[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_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.]] | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_1937_Species_Mundaneum.jpg|thumb|258px|''Species Mundaneum'', 16 Jan 1937, 21 x 28 cm.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_International_Organisation_and_Dissemination_of_Knowledge.jpg|thumb|258px|''International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet'', 1990, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 Log], [http://archive.org/details/internationalorg00otle 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 science|"documentation"]]. Otlet created the ''Universal Decimal Classification'', one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification. | '''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== | ||
− | + | * ''L'Ile du Levant'', Brussels: Guyot, 1882, 39 pp. {{fr}} | |
− | * ''L'Ile du Levant'', Brussels: Guyot, 1882, 39 pp. | + | * ''[http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ L'Afrique aux Noirs]'', Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. {{fr}} |
− | * ''[http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ L'Afrique aux Noirs]'', Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. | + | * ''Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge'', Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp. {{fr}} |
− | * ''Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge'', Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp. | + | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp. {{fr}} |
− | * ''[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. {{fr}} |
− | * ''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. {{en}} | * ''[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] |
Revision as of 13:20, 20 August 2015
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August 23, 1868 Brussels, Belgium |
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December 10, 1944 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 76)
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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
- L'Ile du Levant, Brussels: Guyot, 1882, 39 pp. (French)
- L'Afrique aux Noirs, Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. (French)
- Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge, Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp. (French)
- Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp. (French)
- 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)
- 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
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)
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (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)
- Jacques Gillen (ed.), Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix, Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [3] 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. [4]
- 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)
- 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)
- 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. [5] (English)
- More
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