Otlet, Paul, 1868-1944
Variant namesEpithet: 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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| referencedIn | Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949. | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | Century Company records | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Vol. VII, ff. 306, L-Q.includes:f. 1 Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, KCB; FRS: Letter to T. R. Jones: 1875.f. 3 Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, KCB; FRS: Letter to C. W. Andrews: n.d.f. 5 Charles Lapworth, FRS; geologist: Letter to -: 1882.ff. 7, 9 Édouard... | British Library |
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| correspondedWith | Century Company | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 | person |
| associatedWith | Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars | corporateBody |
| founderOf | International Federation for Information and Documentation | corporateBody |
| acquaintanceOf | La Fontaine, Henri, 1854-1943 | person |
| correspondedWith | Sarton, George, 1884-1956 | person |
| founderOf | Union of International Associations. | corporateBody |
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| Brussels | BRU | BE | |
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| Activists, Peace |
| Documentation |
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Person
Birth 1868-08-23
Death 1944-12-10
