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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 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. | ||
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+ | Otlet_Paul_1936_Mondotheque.jpg|''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]. | ||
+ | Otlet_Paul_1937_Species_Mundaneum.jpg|''Species Mundaneum'', 16 Jan 1937, 21 x 28 cm. | ||
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+ | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_Traite_de_documentation.jpg|thumb|258px|''Traité de documentation'', 1934, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Log], [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent IA], [http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Otlet_-_Trait%C3%A9_de_documentation,_1934.djvu WS-FR], [http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/handle/1854/5612/Traite_de_documentation_ocr.pdf PDF] (196 mb), [http://traite.czam.de/en/latest/ HTML].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Otlet_Paul_Monde_Essai_d_universalisme.jpg|thumb|258px|''Monde: essai d'universalisme'', 1935, [http://biblio.ugent.be/publication/378026 PDF], [http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/uia/docs/otlet_contents.php PDFs].]] | ||
+ | [[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].]] | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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* ''[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. {{fr}} | ||
* ''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}} | * ''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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* ''Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. {{fr}} | * ''Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. {{fr}} | ||
** ''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}} | ** ''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}} | ||
− | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: | + | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Mundaneum, 1934, 431 pp, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Log], [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent IA], [http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Otlet_-_Trait%C3%A9_de_documentation,_1934.djvu WS-FR], [http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/handle/1854/5612/Traite_de_documentation_ocr.pdf PDF] (196 mb), [http://traite.czam.de/en/latest/ HTML]; repr., Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Française, 1989. {{fr}} |
** ''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}} | ** ''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}} | ||
− | * ''Monde. Essai d'universalisme | + | * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-378026 Monde. Essai d'universalisme. Connaissance du monde. Sentiments du monde. Action organisée et plan du monde]'', Brussels: Mundaneum, 1935, 467 pp. {{fr}} |
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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}} | * ''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}} | ||
* ''[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}} | * ''[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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==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
+ | [[Image:Rayward_W_Boyd_The_Universe_of_Information_the_Work_of_Paul_Otlet_for_Documentation_and_international_Organization.jpg|thumb|258px|W. Boyd Rayward, ''The Universe of Information'', 1975, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 Log], [http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/651/THE%20UNIVERSE%20OF%20INFORMATION.pdf PDF], [http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/651/THE%20UNIVERSE%20OF%20INFORMATION.txt TXT].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Mundaneum_Archives_of_Knowledge.jpg|thumb|258px|''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge'', 2008/2010, [http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 PDF].]] | ||
===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}} | ||
** ''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}} | ** ''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}} | ||
* Paul Schneiders, ''De bibliotheek en documentatie beweging 1880-1914: bibliografische on dernemingen rond 1900'', University of Amsterdam, 1982. Dissertation, unpublished. {{nl}} | * Paul Schneiders, ''De bibliotheek en documentatie beweging 1880-1914: bibliografische on dernemingen rond 1900'', University of Amsterdam, 1982. Dissertation, unpublished. {{nl}} | ||
+ | * ''Les prémisses du Mundaneum: cent ans de l’Office international de bibliographie, 1895-1995'', Mons: Mundaneum, 1995. {{fr}} | ||
* W. Boyd Rayward, ''Hasta la documentación electrónica'', trans., ed. & intro. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarau, 2000, 387 pp. {{es}} | * 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}} | ||
+ | * Françoise Levie, ''L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum'', Mons: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2005. {{fr}} | ||
* 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/]. {{fr}} | * 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/]. {{fr}} | ||
− | ** ''[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, University of Illinois, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}} |
* 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}} | * 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}} | ||
* 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). {{fr}} | * 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). {{fr}} | ||
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==Documentaries== | ==Documentaries== | ||
* [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}} | * [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}} | ||
− | * ''The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World | + | * ''L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde'' [The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World], dir. Françoise Levie, 2002. |
==Links== | ==Links== |
Revision as of 19:02, 27 August 2015
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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.
Mondothèque: Pantothèque - Mundaneum - (Documentothèque), 8 Jun 1936, 64 x 67 cm. Reproduction at Mundaneum center.
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: Mundaneum, 1934, 431 pp, Log, IA, WS-FR, PDF (196 mb), HTML; repr., Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Française, 1989. (French)
- Monde. Essai d'universalisme. Connaissance du monde. Sentiments du monde. Action organisée et plan du monde, Brussels: Mundaneum, 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
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Bibliography of the Works of Paul Otlet", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 221-243.
- Compiled by W. Boyd Rayward
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)
- Les prémisses du Mundaneum: cent ans de l’Office international de bibliographie, 1895-1995, Mons: Mundaneum, 1995. (French)
- 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)
- Françoise Levie, L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum, Mons: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2005. (French)
- Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [3]. (French)
- Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, trans. W. Boyd Rayward, University of Illinois, 2010, 46 pp. (English)
- Yoshiyuki Yamana, Kōhei Kuwada, Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum [ムンダネウム], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2009, 120 pp. [4] (Japanese)
- 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). (French)
- 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] (English)
- 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)
- Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (English)
- 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
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 243-250.
- "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources", compiled by W. Boyd Rayward.
- Compiled by Michael Buckland.
Documentaries
- Alle Kennis van de Wereld: het Papieren Internet, Dutch TV, 1998, 23 min. Narrated by W. Boyd Rayward. (French)/(English)
- L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde [The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World], dir. Françoise Levie, 2002.
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