Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
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Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944. Belgian author, entrepreneur, 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 created the Universal Decimal Classification, which would later become a faceted classification. With Henri La Fontaine, founder of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (1895-2002) and the Union of International Associations (1907-).
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Date: 1868-08-23 (Birth) - 1944-12-10 (Death)
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Occupation: Authors
Occupation: Lawyers
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Name Entry: Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
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Place: Liverpool, England
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