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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)  | ||
| + | * Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93.  | ||
* Charlotte Dubray (ed.), ''Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. [http://issuu.com/lesimpressionsnouvelles/docs/mundaneum-extrait Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/le-mundaneum/].  | * Charlotte Dubray (ed.), ''Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance'', Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. [http://issuu.com/lesimpressionsnouvelles/docs/mundaneum-extrait Excerpt], [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/le-mundaneum/].  | ||
** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in English)  | ** ''[http://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15431 Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge]'', trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in English)  | ||
Revision as of 10:34, 26 March 2015
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)
 
 - 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.
 - Charlotte Dubray (ed.), Le Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 96 pp. Excerpt, [1].
- Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, trans. W. Boyd Rayward, 2010, 46 pp. (in English)
 
 - Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mondaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix, Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010, 208 pp. Excerpt, [2].
 - 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. [3] (in English)
 - Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014.
 
Links
- Mundaneum archive center, Mons/Bergen
 - 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