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* 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).  
 
* 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]
 
* 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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* Alex Wright, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/d8a2962812a741e0e623f52f39248c09#0.01 Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{en}}
  
 
===Book chapters, articles===
 
===Book chapters, articles===

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Born August 23, 1868(1868-08-23)
Brussels, Belgium
Died December 10, 1944(1944-12-10) (aged 76)
Brussels, Belgium
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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

Books, dissertations

Book chapters, articles

  • 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)
  • 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

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