Difference between revisions of "Paul Otlet"

From Monoskop
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Text replacement - "//gen.lib.rus.ec" to "//libgen.rs")
(44 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 6: Line 6:
 
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|10|1868|8|23|mf=y}}
 
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|10|1868|8|23|mf=y}}
 
|death_place = Brussels, Belgium
 
|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]]
+
|web = [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet|Wikipedia]], [[Academiaedu::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:Paul Otlet and Mundaneum team.png|thumb|258px|Otlet with his Mundaneum team, n.d.]]
[[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.
 
'''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.
  
 +
{{TOC limit|3}}
 +
 +
His major works are the ''Traité de Documentation, le livre sur le livre'' [Treatise on Documentation: the Book about the Book], published in 1934, and ''Monde'' [World], published in 1935. The former, synthesizing his decades of experience working in his various organizations and thinking about documentation, became not only a work of reference but perhaps one of the first comprehensive treatises on what was later to be known as information science. It discussed the nature and relationships of the various formats and media in which knowledge is conveyed. Among the many innovative ideas expressed in these books were what Otlet called ''livre irradié'' [the broadcast book] and the ''livre téléphoté'' [telephoto book]. He described what we would know as a scholar's work station (sometimes called by him ''Mondothèque'') in which were incorporated a range of multimedia functionalities some of which have still not become routinely available in personal computers. He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the communication of knowledge. His theoretical approach to the organization and dissemination of information was far ahead of its time, notably in foreshadowing the Internet, Hypertext, and the World Wide Web. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/15431/Rayward_215_WEB.pdf#page=14 (Source)]
 +
 +
<gallery>
 +
Universal Bibliographic Repertory.jpg|Volunteers worked at the Universal Bibliographic Repertory, the project that grew into the Mundaneum.
 +
Telegraph room at Mundaneum in Brussels.jpg|Telegraph room at Mundaneum in Brussels.
 +
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.
 +
Otlet_Paul_Laboratorium_Mundaneum.jpg|Laboratorium Mundaneum: Powerhouse of Documentation. C. Platounoff on commission of Otlet [28 Dec 1937].
 +
</gallery>
 +
 +
[[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'', 1990, [[Media:Otlet_Paul_International_Organisation_and_Dissemination_of_Knowledge_Selected_Essays_1990.pdf|PDF]], [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 Log], [http://archive.org/details/internationalorg00otle IA].]]
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
(in French unless noted)
+
===Books and reports (selection)===
* ''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.
+
* ''Sur une forme nouvelle du livre: le livre microphotographique'', with Robert Goldschmidt, Brussels: Institut International de Bibliographie, 1906, 11 pp; repr. in ''IIB Bulletin'' 12 (1907), pp 61-69; repr. in ''Journal des brevets'', Jan 1907; partial repr. in ''Photorevue'', 6 Jan 1907. {{fr}}
* ''Lettres sur la Politique Coloniale Belge'', Brussels: Côte Libre, 1889, 6 pp.
+
** ''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}}
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4285 Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique]'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp.  
+
** "On a New Form of the Book: The Microphotographic Book", in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', 1990, pp 87-95. {{en}}
* ''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}}
+
* ''Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux'', Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. {{fr}}
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography]
+
** ''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: 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}}
 +
 
 +
* ''[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, [http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/uia/docs/otlet_contents.php PDFs].  {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
===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. {{br-pt}}
 +
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays]'', trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. Selection of texts covering the period 1893-1934. {{en}}
 +
* ''La organización documental del conocimiento: el marco documental'', 2 vols., trans. José María Izquierdo Arroyo, Madrid: Tecnidoc, 1995, 502+188 pp. Selected excerpts. {{es}}
 +
* ''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}}
 +
 
 +
===Bibliography===
 +
* W. Boyd Rayward, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b7/Otlet_Paul_International_Organisation_and_Dissemination_of_Knowledge_Selected_Essays_1990.pdf#page=239 "Bibliography of the Works of Paul Otlet"], in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', Elsevier, 1990, pp 221-243.
 +
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Compiled by W. Boyd Rayward]
  
 
==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, [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_The_Universe_of_Information_the_Work_of_Paul_Otlet_for_Documentation_and_international_Organization.pdf|PDF]], [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_The_Universe_of_Information_the_Work_of_Paul_Otlet_for_Documentation_and_international_Organization.txt|TXT]], [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 Log].]]
 +
[[Image:Mundaneum_Archives_of_Knowledge.jpg|thumb|258px|''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge'', 2008/2010, [[Media:Mundaneum_Archives_of_Knowledge_2010.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
[[Image:Mondotheque_A_Radiated_Book_Un_livre_irradiant_Een_irradierend_boek.png|thumb|258px|Constant, ''Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek'', 2016, [https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=The_radiated_book HTML], [[Media:Mondotheque_A_Radiated_Book_Un_livre_irradiant_Een_irradierend_boek_2016.pdf|PDF]], [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17798 Log].]]
 +
===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}}
 +
** ''El universo de la información: la organización de Paul Otlet sobre documentación y organización internacional'', trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarnau, 1996, viii+573 pp; 2nd ed., 1999; 3rd ed., 2005. [https://www.dykinson.com/libros/universo-de-la-informacion-el-la-obra-de-paul-otlet-sobre-documentacion-y-organizacion-internacional/8493069000/] {{es}}
 +
 +
* 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}}
 
* 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'', intro. W. Boyd Rayward, afterw. Benoît Peeters, Mons: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006, 352 pp. [http://www.multimedialab.be/doc/divers/otlet_extrait.pdf Excerpt]. [https://lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/lhomme-qui-voulait-classer-le-monde/] {{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}}
 +
** ''[[Media:Mundaneum_Archives_of_Knowledge_2010.pdf|Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, University of Illinois, 2010, 46 pp, [http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 PDF]. {{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}}
 +
* 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}}
 +
* 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] {{en}}
 +
* Frank Hartmann (ed.), ''Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung'', Berlin: Avinus, 2012, 202 pp. [http://09.022.017.new.medienphilosophie.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/HARTMANN_Otlet_Einleitung.pdf Introduction]. {{de}}
 +
* Alex Wright, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/32067117-2815-47d4-8e58-a56b078ebe89 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{en}}
 +
* Antonietta Folino, ''Otlet-Le Corbusier: lettere sulla costruzione della "Cité Mondiale" (1927-1934)'', Ariccia: Aracne, 2016, 330 pp. [http://www.aracneeditrice.it/pdf/9788854895348.pdf Excerpt]. {{it}}
 +
* Femke Snelting, et al., ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17798 Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek]'', Constant: Brussels, 2016, 225 pp. {{en}},{{nl}},{{fr}}
 +
 +
===Journal issues===
 +
* [[Media:Transnational_Associations_1-2_L_oeuvre_de_Paul_Otlet_2003.pdf|''Transnational Associations / Associations transnationales'' 1-2: "L'oeuvre de Paul Otlet / Paul Otlet's Work"]], ed. André Onkelinx, Brussels, Jan-Jun 2003, [90] pp. {{en}},{{fr}}
 +
** W. Boyd Rayward, [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_2003_Knowledge_Organisation_and_a_New_World_Polity.pdf|"Knowledge Organisation and a New World Polity: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Ideas of Paul Otlet"]], pp 4-15. {{en}}
 +
** Nader Vossoughian, [https://monoskop.org/images/1/18/Transnational_Associations_1-2_L_oeuvre_de_Paul_Otlet_2003.pdf#page=82 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], pp 82-93. {{en}}
 +
 +
* [https://www.abd-bvd.be/fr/cahiers-de-la-documentation/2012-2/ ''Cahiers de la documentation'' 2: "Sur les traces de Paul Otlet"], Jun 2012. {{fr}},{{nl}},{{en}}
 +
** Dominique J.B. Vanpée, [https://www.abd-bvd.be/wp-content/uploads/2012-2_Vanpee.pdf "Paul Otlet en het Mundaneum: Meer dan een papieren erfgoed"], pp 7-14. {{nl}}
 +
** W. Boyd Rayward, [[Media:Rayward W Boyd 2012 Paul Otlet an Encounter.pdf|"Paul Otlet, an Encounter"]], pp 71-73. {{en}}
 +
 +
===Book chapters, articles===
 +
* André Canonne, "Mundaneum, classification décimale universelle et CLPCF", ''Lectures'' 25:2, Brussels, 1985. {{fr}}
 +
* W. Boyd Rayward, [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_1997_The_Origins_of_Information_Science_and_the_International_Institute_of_Bibliography.pdf|"The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography / International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)"]], ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 48:4, Apr 1997, pp 289-300; repr. in ''Historical Studies in Information Science'', eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 22-33. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974571/1997/48/4] {{en}}
 +
* Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, "P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Perspective in the History of Documentation and Information Science", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 48:4, Apr 1997, pp 301-309; [[Media:Rieusset-Lemarie_Isabelle_1998_P_Otlets_Mundaneum_and_the_International_Perspective_in_the_History_of_Documentation_and_Information_Science.pdf|repr. in]] ''Historical Studies in Information Science'', eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 34-42. {{en}}
 +
* Ron Day, [http://web.archive.org/web/20051103031201/http://www.lisp.wayne.edu/~ai2398/newpage4.htm "Paul Otlet's Book and the Writing of Social Space"], ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 48:4, Apr 1997, pp 310-317; repr. in ''Historical Studies in Information Science'', eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 43-50. {{en}}
 +
* W. Boyd Rayward, [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_1998_Visions_of_Xanadu_Paul_Otlet_1968-1944_and_Hypertext.pdf|"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. {{en}}
 
* 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}}
* 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=WqRElNfjSBoC&pg=PA75] {{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}}  
+
* 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=WqRElNfjSBoC&pg=PA89] {{en}}
* 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/].
+
* 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=WqRElNfjSBoC&pg=PA105] {{en}}
** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}}
+
* Charles van den Heuvel, [http://web.archive.org/web/20130512142703/http://informationdesign.org/taxi/BookEuModernisInfoSocietyCh7.pdf "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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=WqRElNfjSBoC&pg=PA127] {{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, [http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/charles-van-den-heuvel/vdheuvel-mundaneum.pdf "Architectures of Global Knowledge: The Mundaneum and the World Wide Web"], ''Destination Library'' 15, 2008, pp 48-53. {{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}}
+
* Charles van den Heuvel, [http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/charles-van-den-heuvel/vdheuvel-mundaneum.pdf "Mundaneum"], ''Volume'' 15: "Destination Library", Spring 2008, pp 48-53. {{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].
+
* 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. [https://www.academia.edu/203574/] {{en}}
* 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}}
+
* Charles van den Heuvel, W. Boyd Rayward, [https://www.academia.edu/956607 "Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration"], ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 62:12, Dec 2011, pp 2313-2326. {{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. {{en}}
+
* Stephanie Manfroid, Jacques Gillen, [[Media:Manfroid_Stephanie_Gillen_Jacques_2013_The_Archives_of_Paul_Otlet_Between_Appreciation_and_Rediscovery_1944-2013.pdf|"The Archives of Paul Otlet: Between Appreciation and Rediscovery, 1944-2013"]], trans. Patricia M. Phillips-Batoma, ''Library Trends'' 62:2, Fall 2013, pp 311-328. {{en}}
 +
* W. Boyd Rayward, [[Media:Rayward_W_Boyd_2014_International_Exhibitions_Paul_Otlet_Henri_La_Fontaine_and_the_Paradox_of_the_Belle_Epoque.pdf|"Introduction: International Exhibitions, Paul Otlet, Henri La Fontaine and the Paradox of the Belle Epoque"]], in ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=152F3C35F8C9FE727329DEDB03B4A9CA 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}}
 +
* Elodie Mugrefya, [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Afrique_aux_noirs "Mise en Valeur et Omission: sur Paul Otlet's ''Afrique aux noirs''], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21622 DiVersions]'', ed. Constant, Brussels: Constant, 2019. {{fr}}
 +
** [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Opwaarderen_en_weglaten "Opwaarderen en weglaten: over Paul Otlet's ''Afrique aux noirs''], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21622 DiVersions]'', ed. Constant, Brussels: Constant, 2019. {{nl}}
 +
** [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Afrique_aux_noirs "Celebration and Omission: on Paul Otlet's ''Afrique aux noirs''"], 2019. {{en}}
 +
* Mondotheque, Algolit, [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/paul-otlet-an-omissum.html "Paul Otlet, an Omissum"], Feb 2020. {{en}}
 +
** [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/paul-otlet-an-omissum-fr.html "Paul Otlet, un Omissum"], Feb 2020. {{fr}}
 +
** [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/paul-otlet-an-omissum-nl.html "Paul Otlet, een Omissum"], Feb 2020. {{nl}}
 +
* [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/publications-autour-du-mundaneum More]
 +
 
 +
===Bibliography===
 +
* W. Boyd Rayward, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b7/Otlet_Paul_International_Organisation_and_Dissemination_of_Knowledge_Selected_Essays_1990.pdf#page=261 "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources"], in Otlet, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4283 International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge]'', Elsevier, 1990, pp 243-250.
 +
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources"], compiled by W. Boyd Rayward.
 +
* [http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/otletbib.html Compiled by Michael Buckland].
 +
 
 +
==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}}
 +
* ''L'Homme qui voulait classer le monde'' [The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World], dir. Françoise Levie, 2002.
  
==Documentary==
+
==See also==
* [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}}
+
* [[Ideographies of Knowledge]], a symposium on Otlet organised by Monoskop in Mundaneum, 2015, incl. video documentation.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
Line 44: Line 126:
 
* [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]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet Otlet at Wikipedia]
+
* [http://www.cndp.fr/savoirscdi/societe-de-linformation/le-monde-du-livre-et-de-la-presse/histoire-du-livre-et-de-la-documentation/biographies/paul-otlet.html Profile at CNDP]
  
 
[[Category:Documentation science|Otlet, Paul]]
 
[[Category:Documentation science|Otlet, Paul]]

Revision as of 09:55, 5 March 2021

Born August 23, 1868(1868-08-23)
Brussels, Belgium
Died December 10, 1944(1944-12-10) (aged 76)
Brussels, Belgium
Web Wikipedia, Academia.edu
Otlet with his Mundaneum team, n.d.

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.

His major works are the Traité de Documentation, le livre sur le livre [Treatise on Documentation: the Book about the Book], published in 1934, and Monde [World], published in 1935. The former, synthesizing his decades of experience working in his various organizations and thinking about documentation, became not only a work of reference but perhaps one of the first comprehensive treatises on what was later to be known as information science. It discussed the nature and relationships of the various formats and media in which knowledge is conveyed. Among the many innovative ideas expressed in these books were what Otlet called livre irradié [the broadcast book] and the livre téléphoté [telephoto book]. He described what we would know as a scholar's work station (sometimes called by him Mondothèque) in which were incorporated a range of multimedia functionalities some of which have still not become routinely available in personal computers. He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the communication of knowledge. His theoretical approach to the organization and dissemination of information was far ahead of its time, notably in foreshadowing the Internet, Hypertext, and the World Wide Web. (Source)

Traité de documentation, 1934, Log, IA, WS-FR, PDF (196 mb), HTML.
Monde: essai d'universalisme, 1935, PDF, PDFs.
International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays, 1990, PDF, Log, IA.

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, 11 pp; 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 Microphotographic 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)

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, 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

W. Boyd Rayward, The Universe of Information, 1975, PDF, TXT, Log.
Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, 2008/2010, PDF.
Constant, Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek, 2016, HTML, PDF, Log.

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)
    • El universo de la información: la organización de Paul Otlet sobre documentación y organización internacional, trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarnau, 1996, viii+573 pp; 2nd ed., 1999; 3rd ed., 2005. [3] (Spanish)
  • 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, intro. W. Boyd Rayward, afterw. Benoît Peeters, Mons: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006, 352 pp. Excerpt. [4] (French)
  • Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [5]. (French)
  • Yoshiyuki Yamana, Kōhei Kuwada, Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum [ムンダネウム], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2009, 120 pp. [6] (Japanese)
  • Jacques Gillen (ed.), Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix, Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [7] 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. [8] (English)
  • Frank Hartmann (ed.), Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung, Berlin: Avinus, 2012, 202 pp. Introduction. (German)
  • Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014. (English)
  • Antonietta Folino, Otlet-Le Corbusier: lettere sulla costruzione della "Cité Mondiale" (1927-1934), Ariccia: Aracne, 2016, 330 pp. Excerpt. (Italian)
  • Femke Snelting, et al., Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek, Constant: Brussels, 2016, 225 pp. (English),(Dutch),(French)

Journal issues

Book chapters, articles

Bibliography

Documentaries

See also

Links