Paul Otlet
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August 23, 1868 Brussels, Belgium |
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Died |
December 10, 1944 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 76)
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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". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.
Contents
Works
- Books and reports (selection)
- L'Afrique aux noirs, Brussels: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888, 18 pp. (French)
- Sur une forme nouvelle du livre: le livre microphotographique, with Robert Goldschmidt, Brussels: Institut International de Bibliographie, 1906; repr. in IIB Bulletin 12 (1907), pp 61-69; repr. in Journal des brevets, Jan 1907; partial repr. in Photorevue, 6 Jan 1907. (French)
- El libro microfotográfico: comunicación sobre los últimos trabajos técnicos referentes a las formas nuevas del libro y de los documentos, trans. & notes Pedro Chico, Guadalajara: Publicaciones de la Revista de Escuelas Normales de Guadalajara, 1926, 14 pp. (Spanish)
- "On a New Form of the Book: The Microphotgraphic Book", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 87-95. (English)
- Manuel de la documentation administrative: principes généraux, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1923, 95 pp. (French)
- Rukovodstvo k administrirovaniyu: doklad, sdelannyy na 2-m Mezhdunarodnom Kongresse Administrativnykh nauk v Bryussele v 1923 godu [Руководство к администрированию: доклад, сделанный на 2-м Международном Конгрессе Административных наук в Брюсселе в 1923 году], Moscow, 1924, 85 pp. (Russian)
- Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp; repr., Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Française, 1989. (French)
- 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. (French)
- Selected works
- Bibliometria teoria e pratica, ed. Edson Nery da Fonseca, trans. Alda Baltaz, Ivanilda Fernandes Costa Rolim and Jose Paulo Paes, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1986, 141 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp. Selection of texts covering the period 1893-1934. (English)
- La organización documental del conocimiento: el marco documental, 2 vols., trans. José María Izquierdo Arroyo, Madrid: Tecnidoc, 1995, 502+188 pp. Selected excerpts. (Spanish)
- Biblioteka, bibliografiya, dokumentatsiya: izbrannyye trudy pionera informatiki [Библиотека, библиография, документация: избранные труды пионера информатики], ed., forew. & comm. R.S. Giliarevsky, trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, et al., Moscow: Fair-Press: Pashkov Dom, 2004, 348 pp. (Russian)
- Bibliography
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Bibliography of the Works of Paul Otlet", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 221-243.
- Compiled by W. Boyd Rayward
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)
- Universum informatsii. Zhizn' i deyatel'nost' Polya Otle [Универсум информации. Жизнь и деятельность Поля Отле], intro. & trans. R.S. Giliarevsky, Moscow: Knjiga, 1976, 401 pp. (Russian)
- Paul Schneiders, De bibliotheek en documentatie beweging 1880-1914: bibliografische on dernemingen rond 1900, University of Amsterdam, 1982. Dissertation, unpublished. (Dutch)
- W. Boyd Rayward, Hasta la documentación electrónica, trans., ed. & intro. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundarau, 2000, 387 pp. (Spanish)
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp. (English)
- Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [3]. (French)
- Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (English)
- Yoshiyuki Yamana, Kōhei Kuwada, Le Corbusier, Paul Otlet: Mundaneum [ムンダネウム], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2009, 120 pp. [4] (Japanese)
- Jacques Gillen (ed.), Paul Otlet: fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944): architecte du savoir, artisan de paix, Brussels: Impressions nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [5] Review: Rouyer-Gayette (2010). (French)
- Wouter Van Acker, Universalism as utopia: a historical study of the schemes and schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944), Zelzate University Press, 2011. Dissertation. [6] (English)
- Frank Hartmann (ed.), Vom Buch zur Datenbank. Paul Otlets Utopie der Wissensvisualisierung, Berlin: Avinus, 2012, 202 pp. (German)
- Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014. (English)
Book chapters, articles
- W. Boyd Rayward, "The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography / International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 22-33. (English)
- Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, "P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Perspective in the History of Documentation and Information Science", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 34-42. (English)
- Ron Day, "Paul Otlet's Book and the Writing of Social Space", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48:4 (1997), pp 310-317; repr. in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 43-50. (English)
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1968-1944) and Hypertext", in Historical Studies in Information Science, eds. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland, 1998, pp 65-80. (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)
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Knowledge Organisation and a New World Polity", Transnational Associations 1-2 (2003), pp 4-15.
- 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, "Mundaneum", Volume 15: "Destination Library", Spring 2008, pp 48-53. (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. [7] (English)
- More
Bibliography
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources", in Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge, 1990, pp 243-250.
- "Paul Otlet: Bibliography of Secondary Sources", compiled by W. Boyd Rayward.
- Compiled by Michael Buckland.
Documentaries
- Alle Kennis van de Wereld: het Papieren Internet, Dutch TV, 1998, 23 min. Narrated by W. Boyd Rayward. (French)/(English)
- The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World, dir. Françoise Levie, 2002.
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