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Otlet was also an idealist and peace activist, pushing internationalist political ideas that were embodied in the League of Nations and its International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation ( forerunner of UNESCO ), working alongside his colleague Henri La Fontaine, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913, to achieve their ideas of a new world polity that they saw arising from the global diffusion of information and the creation of new kinds of international organization.
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It was founded in 1907 by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
It was in this role that he and Otlet attended the World Congress of Universal Documentation in 1937.
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (; ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944 ) was a French-speaking Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist ; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called " documentation ".
Otlet was responsible for the widespread adoption in Europe of the standard American 3x5 inch index card used until recently in most library catalogs around the world ( by now largely displaced by the advent of online public access catalogs ( OPAC )).
In 1907, following a huge international conference, Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International Associations, which was renamed to the Union of International Associations in 1910, and which is still located in Brussels.
Otlet was born in Brussels, Belgium on 23 August 1868, the oldest child of Édouard Otlet ( Brussels 13 June 1842-Blanquefort, France, 20 October 1907 ) and Maria ( née Van Mons ).
His mother, died in 1871 at the age of 24, when Otlet was three.
Otlet was educated at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he earned a law degree on 15 July 1890.
The Palais Mondial was briefly shuttered in 1922, due to lack of support from the government of Prime Minister Georges Theunis, but was reopened after lobbying from Otlet and La Fontaine.
Otlet ’ s idea to design a utopian city dedicated to international institutions was largely inspired by the contemporary publication in 1913 by the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen and the French architect Ernest Hébrard of an impressive series of Beaux-Arts plans for a World Centre of Communication ( 1913 ).
Otlet was a firm believer in international cooperation to promote both the spread of knowledge and peace between nations.
He also published a biography of Otlet ( 1975 ) that was translated into Russian ( 1976 ) and Spanish ( 1996, 1999, and 2005 ).
In 1985, Belgian academic André Canonne raised the possibility of recreating the Mundaneum as an archive and museum devoted to Otlet and others associated with them ; his idea initially was to house it in the Belgian city of Liège.
Otlet and also
Otlet and Lafontaine ( who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 ) not only envisioned later technical innovations but also projected a global vision for information and information technologies that speaks directly to postwar visions of a global " information society.
Otlet not only imagined that all the world's knowledge should be interlinked and made available remotely to anyone, but he also proceeded to build a structured document collection.
* A field of study and a profession founded by Paul Otlet ( 1868-1944 ) and Henri La Fontaine ( 1854-1945 ), which is also termed documentation science.
In 1895, Otlet and La Fontaine also began the creation of a collection of index cards, meant to catalog facts, that came to be known as the " Repertoire Bibliographique Universel " ( RBU ), or the " Universal Bibliographic Repertory ".
Otlet and peace
Otlet spent much of the war trying to bring about peace, and the creation of multinational institutions that he felt could avert future wars.
Otlet and ideas
According to Otlet scholar W. Boyd Rayward, " the First World War marked the end of the intellectual as well as sociopolitical era in which Otlet had functioned hitherto with remarkable success ," after which Otlet began to lose the support of both the Belgian government and the academic community, and his ideas began to seem " grandiose, unfocused and passe.
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.
Otlet and were
In 1913, La Fontaine won the Nobel Peace Prize, and invested his winnings into Otlet and La Fontaine's bibliographic ventures, which were suffering from lack of funding.
Otlet integrated new media, as they were invented, into his vision of the networked knowledge-base of the future.
Otlet and its
Requisitioning the Mundaneum's quarters to hold a collection of Third Reich art and destroying substantial amounts of its collections in the process, the Germans forced Otlet and his colleagues to find a new home for the Mundaneum.
Otlet and International
Many information science historians cite Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as the fathers of information science with the founding of the International Institute of Bibliography ( IIB ) in 1895.
He is the co-founder of Institut International de Bibliographie ( which later became the International Federation for Information and Documentation, FID ) along with Paul Otlet.
Otlet founded the Institut International de Bibliographie ( IIB ) in 1895, later renamed as ( in English ) the International Federation for Information and Documentation ( FID ).
Front page of the book " International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge " ( selected essays by Paul Otlet ) edited by W. Boyd Rayward
Otlet and ),
A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet ( 1868-1944 ), Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate ( 2011 ), ISBN 978-90-8578-459-3
Otlet and Henri
The Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.
Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine's Mundaneum, a massively cross-referenced card index system established in 1910.
In 1891, Otlet met Henri La Fontaine, a fellow lawyer with shared interests in bibliography and international relations, and the two became good friends.
* Theater Adhoc, A theatrical insight in the ideals and dilemmas of the world of Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine The Humor and Tragedy of Completeness ( mainly in Dutch – translations on request )
Otlet and La
In 1904, Otlet and La Fontaine began to publish their classification scheme, which they termed the Universal Decimal Classification.
In 1910, Otlet and La Fontaine first envisioned a " city of knowledge ", which Otlet originally named the " Palais Mondial " (" World Palace "), that would serve as a central repository for the world's information.
This museum is still in operation, and contains the personal papers of Otlet and La Fontaine and the archives of the various organizations they created along with other collections important to the modern history of Belgium.
Otlet and world
Otlet envisioned a copy of the RBU in each major city around the world, with Brussels holding the master copy.
The World City or Cité Mondiale is a utopian vision by Paul Otlet of a city which like a universal exhibition brings together all the leading institutions of the world.
Otlet scholar W. Boyd Rayward has written that Otlet's thinking is a product of the 19th century and the philosophy of positivism, which holds that, through careful study and the scientific method, an objective view of the world can be gained.
Otlet and from
Otlet journeyed to the United States in early 1914 to try to get additional funding from the U. S. Government, but his efforts soon came to a halt due to the outbreak of World War I. Otlet returned to Belgium, but quickly fled after it became occupied by the Germans ; he spent the majority of the war in Paris and various cities in Switzerland.
Otlet and information
* Paul Otlet, considered one of the fathers of information science
Librarianship in particular and information science in general had not been revolutionized as much since the likes of Antonio Panizzi, Charles Ammi Cutter or Paul Otlet.
A better storage system, Otlet wrote in his essay, would be cards containing individual " chunks " of information, that would allow " all the manipulations of classification and continuous interfiling.
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