Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1868-08-23
Death 1944-12-10
Birth 1868

Biographical notes:

Epithet: of the Institut International de Bibliographie, Brussels

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x000329

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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Subjects:

  • Activists, Peace
  • Documentation
  • Information science

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Information scientists
  • Lawyers

Places:

  • BRU, BE
  • BRU, BE
  • Liverpool, England (as recorded)