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	paul otlet - danda
		but it is. paul otlet (1868-1944) was a visionary avant-gardist, excentric lawyer and utopian internationalist.
		as an intellectual otlet understood that the access to the universe of knowledge forms the base of a better understanding of our civilized world, even making that world more ideal to live in.
		otlet invented the universal decimal classification system, still used and tought these days.
	www.danda.be /reviews/140 (306 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Paul Otlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Paul Otlet devoted his professional life to the art of collecting, recording, organizing and disseminating knowledge.
		Paul Otlet also aimed to extract "substance" from books much like we strive to separate content from presentation on the Web, and then cross-link this substance with other contents and automatically provide enriched combinations in ways unforeseen by the original book authors.
		In the wake of World War II, the contributions of Otlet to the field of information science were lost sight of in the rising popularity of the ideas of American information scientists such as Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson and by such theorists of information organization as Seymour Lubetzky.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paul-Otlet (1665 words)

	THE CASE OF PAUL OTLET, PIONEER OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, INTERNATIONALIST, VISIONARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Otlet was concerned to analyse the nature of Documents and to understand the organisational requirements needed to facilitate access to the information that was their freight.
		Thus for Otlet the document is at the centre of a complex process of communication, of the cumulation and transmission of knowledge, of the creation and evolution of institutions.
		And it was Otlet, theorist and visionary, who held their imaginations most in beneficial thrall as they continued to work after his death, just as they had in those last days of his life, among the mouldering, discorded collections of the Mundaneum, themselves gradually overtaken by age, their numbers dwindling.
	alexia.lis.uiuc.edu /~wrayward/otlet/PAUL_OTLET_REFLECTIONS_ON_BIOG.HTM (7847 words)

	php-deluxe.net - description Paul Otlet
		The contents of Paul Otlet s Mundaneum or Permanent Encyclopedia grew from 400 000 entries in 1895 to over 15 million in 1934; a significant achievement for a paper-based, human-powered search engine.
		In the wake of World War II, Otlet s reputation plunged to obscurity and his contributions to the field were overshadowed by the rising popularity of American information scientists such as Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson and later Seymour Lubetzky.
		Since 1998, the Mundaneum is the name of a museum in Mons (Belgium) housing the remains of various collections sponsored by Paul Otlet, as well as his personal archives.
	www.php-deluxe.net /encyclopedia,index.page,Paul-Otlet.htm (406 words)

	EXTRA CITY
		Otlets plannen worden in Information/Transformation aan een nieuw onderzoek onderworpen.
		Otlet not only laid the foundation for the internet, but was also the brain behind important insights about the world bank and the protection of access to information.
		Otlet points the way toward a contemporary cultural institute and at the same time discloses the methodology that it reflects: the concept, and its methodology, are inspired by a geographic museum.
	www.extracity.org /info_transfo/index.htm (1143 words)

	Union of International Associations -- Virtual Organization: Paul Otlet's 100-year hypertext conundrum ?
		Otlet was indeed co-founder (with Nobel Prize laureate Henri La Fontaine) in 1895 of the International Office of Bibliography -- whose work gave rise to current interest in Otlet's prophetic role in framing insight into the possibilities of hypertext.
		Otlet wrote eloquently of the need for an international information handling system embracing everything from the creation of an entry in a catalogue to new forms of publication, from the management of libraries, archives and museums as interrelated information agencies to the collaborative elaboration of a universal encyclopedia codifying all of man's hitherto unmanageable knowledge.
		In 1944 the Belgian bibliographer, Paul Otlet, died.As early as 1892 he had already identified the same information problem that would be described by Bush in 1945, and by 1934 he had developed and articulated a sophisticated solution that incorporated much of what today would be recognized as hypertext (Rayward 1994; Buckland 1992).
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /docs/otlethyp.php (5148 words)

	physics - Paul Otlet
		The Belgian Paul Otlet (1868–1944) can be seen as the founding father of bibliography, or what is now called information science.
		Paul Otlet devoted his professional life to the problem of making recorded knowledge available to the widest number of people.
		Otlet's reputation plunged to obscurity in the wake of World War II (after the Nazis literally destroyed his most ambitious project, the Mundaneum); and his contributions to the field of information science have been overshadowed by an Anglo-centric focus on post-World War II information scientists like Vannevar Bush and Douglas Engelbart.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Paul_Otlet (276 words)

	Michael Buckland's Paul Otlet Page
		Paul Otlet (portrait) was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1868.
		Paul Otlet was the most central figure in the development of Documentation.
		Otlet and LaFontaine were also active in the founding of the Union of International Associations.
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /~buckland/otlet.html (439 words)

	What is a document? JASIS 1997
		Paul Otlet and others developed a functional view of "document" and discussed whether, for example, sculpture, museum objects, and live animals, could be considered "documents".
		Paul Otlet (1868-1944), is known for his observation that documents could be three dimensional, which enabled the inclusion of sculpture.
		Frits Donker Duyvis (1894-1961), who succeded Paul Otlet as the central figure in the International Federation for Documentation, epitomized the modernist mentality of the documentalists in his dedication to the trinity of scientific management, standardization, and bibliographic control as complementary and mutually reinforcing bases for achieving progress (Anon., 1964).
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /~buckland/whatdoc.html (3218 words)

	Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
		Originally envisioned as the centerpiece of a new “city of the intellect,” the Mundaneum was to be the hub of a utopian city that housed a society of the world’s nations.
		Distinguishing Otlet’s vision from the Bush-Nelson (and Berners-Lee) model is the conviction—long since fallen out of favor—in the possibility of a universal subject classification working in concert with the mutable social forces of scholarship.
		Otlet’s vision suggests an intellectual cosmos illuminated both by objective classification and by the direct influence of readers and writers: a system simultaneously ordered and self-organizing, and endlessly re-configurable by the individual reader or writer.
	www.boxesandarrows.com /archives/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet.php (2149 words)

	Otlet: Some ideas die because they are wrong. Many-to-Many:
		Not knocking Otlet, mind, he was working in the tenor of the time, but the idea that the rock candy mountain of a universal global ontology didn't appear because of dictates of fashion is nonsense.
		To portray Otlet as a champion of authoritative classification is to misconstrue his legacy.
		Otlet matters not because he believed in universal classification, but because he recognized the importance of associative trails and collaborative authorship, directly presaging the visions of Bush, Nelson et al.
	many.corante.com /archives/2003/11/20/otlet_some_ideas_die_because_they_are_wrong.php (1337 words)

	Paul Otlet . Enpsychlopedia
		Otlet wrote numerous essays on how to collect and organize the world’s knowledge, culminating in two books, the Traité de documentation (1934)https://archive.ugent.be/handle/1854/5612 and Monde: Essai d'universalisme (1935).
		In a large but decrepit building in the Parc Leopold they reconsituted the Mundaneum as best as they could and there it remained after Otlet's death in 1944 until it was forced to move again in 1972.
		After many vicissitudes, including several more moves, the Mundaneum as an archive and museum devoted to Otlet and his colleague La Fontaine and the work of others associated with them was opened in Mons (Belgium) in 1993.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Paul_Otlet (981 words)

	a thousand tomorrows » Blog Archive » visionaries: Paul Otlet
		The lawyer Paul Otlet had an astonishing range of ideas and initiatives related to the organization of the world’s knowledge, including systems and new, at the time unexisting technologies which he envisioned and often pushed to see developed (examples included distance learning tools).
		One of Otlet’s most ambitious projects, was the Mundaneum, a huge institute in which he wanted to bring together all the world’s knowledge in one place, a place where to make invisible things, ideas, visible (see also here).
		Furthermore, what is left of Otlet’s legacy can be experienced at the current Mundaneum in the belgian city of Mons, an institute housing his huge collections of documentation and personal archives.
	www.pantopicon.be /blog/2006/10/26/visionaries-paul-otlet (682 words)

	Paul Otlet, Forgotten Forefather - Timeline Index
		A bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur, Otlet had in his heyday been feted as a great man, enjoying the company of Nobel laureates and even playing a role in the formation of the League of Nations.
		In 1895, Otlet and Henri La Fontaine established the Repertoire Bibliographique Universel (RBU), an ambitious attempt at developing a master bibliography of the world's accumulated knowledge.
		Otlet recognized from the beginning that the success of the whole undertaking would depend largely on the usefulness of its conceptual software, the classification system.
	www.timelineindex.com /kidsweek/view/311 (232 words)

	A History of the D
		[1] The UDC was the brain-child of the two Belgians, Paul Otlet and Henry LaFontaine, who began working on their system in 1889, 15 years after Melvil Dewey established the DDC.
		Otlet and LaFontaine were required to augment Dewey’s system with numerous devices that they later described as synthetic.
		Along with Otlet and La Fontaine, he formed the editorial board for the new UDC edition, preparing the second French edition between 1926 and 1931.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /courses/libr517/02-03-wt2/projects/dewey/P2Section1.htm (1580 words)

	ExtraLibris Tecnológica: O antepassado esquecido: Paul Otlet
		Otlet imaginava um dia em que os usuários distantes poderiam acessar a base de dados, através de um "telescópio elétrico" conectado a uma linha telefônica, recuperando uma imagem fac-simile para ser projetada em uma tela plana remota.
		Otlet teve que abandonar sua localização original, movendo o Mundaneum para sucessivos espaços menores, até mesmo ficando por algum tempo, em um estacionamento.
		Otlet também reconheceu a importância prática da "pesquisa e recuperação realizada por uma equipe permanente apropriadamente qualificada".
	tecnologica.extralibris.info /internet/o_antepassado_esquecido_paul_o.html (2284 words)

	librarian.net »
		Meet Paul Otlet, the forgotten forefather of information architecture and co-creator of the Mundaneum.
		Taking the Dewey Decimal system as his starting point, Otlet began developing what came to be known as the Universal Decimal Classification, now widely recognized as the first—and one of the only—full implementations of a faceted classification system.
		While Ranganathan rightly receives credit as the philosophical forbear of facets, Otlet was the first to put them to practical use.
	www.librarian.net /tag/paulotlet (108 words)

	ASIS&T 2006 - Paul Otlet, Documentation and Classification.
		ASIS&T 2006 - Paul Otlet, Documentation and Classification.
		Her deeply researched film is at once biographical and a study of the ideas that led Otlet to conceive of the Mundaneum, a world organization dedicated to the management of the world’s knowledge as the basis for a new kind of world community.
		But it was not merely the UDC itself that intrigued the information scientists and librarians who followed Otlet, but the nature, value and role of new approaches to bibliographical and knowledge classification for transforming our understanding of information retrieval more generally that he had highlighted in his work.
	www.asis.org /Conferences/AM06/papers/73.html (417 words)

	Society Redefined : Social Psychology : Deleting Thread Evolution of Cooperation
		Alex Wright, in Boxes and Arrows, calls Paul Otlet "the forgotten father of hypertext." It makes you wonder what other ideas appeared sixty years before their time -- and which of today's crazy ideas won't look so crazy half a century from now.
		Otlet imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an âelectric telescopeâ connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen.
		Otlet envisioned the whole endeavor as a great "rÃ©seau"â”webâ”of human knowledge.
	www.sociopranos.com /forums/message-delete.asp?MessageID=873 (342 words)

	UDC Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Boyd Rayward discussing Paul Otlet's work and showing the remains of the Mundaneum, they were planning a docudrama about Otlet and La Fontaine and their failed ambitions (failed except for UDC, which took on a life of its own).
		Adhoc's intention was to get to know Otlet and La Fontaine and 'focus on the humorous and tragical aspects of their aim at completeness.' Charmingly, the possibility of translating any concept into UDC notation made them consider 'for a short moment' staging Hamlet in UDC (a pity the idea was short-lived!).
		The film is told through autobiographical texts of Paul Otlet as well as through the work of two researchers who unearth hundreds of boxes never before inventored.
	www.udcc.org /announcement.htm (1388 words)

	datacloud: More on Otlet + Datacloud Comments
		Bush gets the cred, while Otlet and others did lots of the work (except in a few sources-and Alex Wright is hardly the first guy to notice this).
		Bush gets the cred, while Otlet and others did lots of the work (except in a few sources--and Alex Wright is hardly the first guy to notice this).
		But maybe there's room for Otlet (and others) as the history of hypertext continues to be (re)written.
	people.clarkson.edu /~johndan/datacloud/archives/001617.html (566 words)

	Readings
		The Case of Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Science, Internationalist, Visionary: Reflections on Biography.
		Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext.
		Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Prespective in the History od Documentation and Information Science.
	instruct.uwo.ca /mit/345/readings.htm (153 words)

	ASIS&T Bulletin Apr/May 2005: W. Boyd Rayward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I have argued that in Otlet’s world of paper, card and cabinet technology he provided a theoretical basis for, and described many of the functionalities characteristic of, today's information technology and the uses to which it has been put.
		In Europe among their interrogators are Paul Otlet, H. Wells, Otto Neurath and others who are seeking to find ways of overcoming barriers to social as well as scientific and technical progress inherent in the knowledge apparatus as it was then constituted.
		For Otlet, Wells and others microfilm and indeed other technologies, such as Neurath's ISOTYPE visual language, offer the prospect of a revolutionary technological "fix" to the existing inefficiencies of the systems of scientific and scholarly communication.
	www.asis.org /Bulletin/Apr-05/rayward.html (2187 words)

	Paul Otlet. Many-to-Many:
		Otlet: Some ideas die because they are wrong »
		Read the whole thing: Alex Wright on Paul Otlet, the forgotten forefather of hypertext.
		...While that sentiment may sound postmodernist in spirit, Otlet was no semiotician; rather, he simply believed that documents could best be understood as three-dimensional, with the third dimension being their social context: their relationship to place, time, language, other readers, writers and topics.
	many.corante.com /archives/001707.php (343 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
		Born in Belgium in 1868 Otlet was first a lawyer, then a bibliographer and eventually an information systems theorist.
		However, other notables in the field, such as the now-legendary Vannevar Bush were, directly and indirectly influenced by the contributions of Otlet who died in 1944.
		In addition to pitching for the Bibliographers in that league, Otlet briefly managed the Information Cards who play in the Intellectual Property League.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /0401news.html (2143 words)

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