Paul Otlet
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August 23, 1868 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Died |
December 10, 1944 (aged 76) Brussels, Belgium |
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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.
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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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
