Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
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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
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- BRU, BE
- BRU, BE
- Liverpool, England (as recorded)