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Bookmark or Share- Paul Otlet | Belgian Lawyer, Bibliographer & Father of Information ...Paul Otlet (born August 23, 1868, Brussels, Belgium—died December 10, 1944, Brussels) was a Belgian bibliographer and entrepreneur whose ambitious Mundaneum project attempted to create a universal repository of all the world’s recorded knowledge.
- Paul Otlet - University of California, BerkeleyPaul Otlet was the most central figure in the development of Documentation. He struggled tirelessly for decades with the central technical, theoretical, and organizational aspects of a problem central to society: How to make recorded knowledge available to those who need it.
- The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for ...Decades before Alan Turing pioneered computer science and Vannevar Bush imagined the web, a visionary Belgian idealist named Paul Otlet (August 23, 1868–December 10, 1944) set out to organize the world’s information.
- Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet - Boxes and ArrowsForgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet. One rainy afternoon in 1968, a young Australian graduate student named Boyd Rayward stepped into an abandoned office in the Parc Leopold in Brussels, Belgium. Inside, he discovered “a cluttered, musty, cobwebbed office into which the rain leaked—and one day flooded—causing the attendant then on hand to ...
- The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s MundaneumMore than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally available. He foresaw, in other words, some of the possibilities of today’s Web.
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