Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
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Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
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Otlet, Paul Marie Ghislain, 1868-1944
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Paul Marie Ghislain
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1868-1944
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Epithet: of the Institut International de Bibliographie, Brussels
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and peace activist. He is considered to be a founding figure of information science, which he referred to as "documentation." Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, which would later become a faceted classification, and developed an early information retrieval tool, the "Repertoire Bibliographique Universel," which utilized 3x5-inch index cards. With his good friend Henri La Fontaine, he founded the International Federation for Information and Documentation (1895) and the Union of International Associations (1907), as well as the Mundaneum as an umbrella organization for their work.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/173401472
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218090486
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12922802s
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90646362
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n90646362
http://www.isni.org/0000 0001 2096 1501
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1868
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Activists, Peace
Documentation
Information science
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Brussels
BRU, BE
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Liverpool, England
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BRU, BE
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