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'''Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet''' (23 August 1868 – 10 December 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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[[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].]]
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[[Image:Otlet_Paul_1937_Species_Mundaneum.jpg|thumb|258px|''Species Mundaneum'', 16 Jan 1937, 21 x 28 cm.]]
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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.
  
 
==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.  
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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. (in English)
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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}}
 
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography]
 
* [http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otbib.htm Full bibliography]
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* W. Boyd Rayward, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4294 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization]'', 1975. (in English)
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* 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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* Ronald E. Day, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=652 The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power]'', SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (in English)
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* 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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* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (in German)
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* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. {{de}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (in English)
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** ''[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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* 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.
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* 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}}
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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}}
 
* 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/].
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** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in English)
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** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}}
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* 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}}
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* 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].
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* 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] (in English)
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* 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}}
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* 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.
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* 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}}
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==Documentary==
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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}}
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
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* [http://mundaneum.org/ Mundaneum archive center], Mons/Bergen
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* [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(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.

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

(in French unless noted)

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)
  • 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].
  • 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

Links

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