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* Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (in German) | * Markus Krajewski, ''ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek'', Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (in German) | ||
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (in English) | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4076 Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929]'', trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (in English) | ||
| − | * "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) | + | * Charlotte Dubray (ed.), ''Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008. |
| + | ** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/get?md5=C2B2F001F4499AF007DC7CF53F8DC885 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=P-KKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1] (in English) | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 16:50, 23 October 2014
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". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.
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. (in English)
- Full bibliography
Literature
- W. Boyd Rayward, The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization, 1975. (in English)
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (in English)
- Markus Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (in German)
- Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (in English)
- Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
- Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in 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. [1] (in English)
