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==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]'', 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}} | ||
* 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}} | ||
| + | * 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/]. | ||
| + | ** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. {{en}} | ||
| + | * 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). | ||
| + | * 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] | ||
| + | * 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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| + | ===Book chapters, articles=== | ||
* 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}} | * 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. {{en}} |
| − | * | + | * 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. {{en}} |
| − | + | * Pierre Chabard�, "Towers and Globes: Architectural and Epistemological Differences | |
| − | * Charles van den Heuvel, "Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: | + | 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. {{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, pp 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}} | * 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}} | ||
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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}} | * 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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==Documentary== | ==Documentary== | ||
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| Born |
August 23, 1868 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Died |
December 10, 1944 (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.
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
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
- 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, "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)
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
