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• 28 Sep 11
  

  shannon mattern

  1934: "Paul Otlet envisioned a new kind of scholar’s workstation: a moving desk shaped like a wheel, powered by a network of hinged spokes beneath a series of moving surfaces. The machine would let users search, read and write their way through a vast mec

  libraries classification reading_spaces

• 27 Sep 11
  

  Gardner Campbell

  @CodyOwens5 @rebeccakmiller OK, just wanted to say m*i*n*d* b*l*o*w*n. Thanks MIGHTILY for that Olet link. http://t.co/GnFMrPWq

  from twitter

• 02 Jan 11
  

  ken .

  Alex Wright's 2003 article on Paul Otlet (Bush, Ranganathan and Borges too) - check out the hand drawn diagram on Travail Intellectuel - does it predate Drucker?
  
  "After evaluating the classification systems then in use, such as Dewey Decimal and the British Museum system, Otlet concluded that they all shared a fatal flaw: they were designed to guide readers as far as the individual book—but no further"

  books classification history hypertext information knowledge management paper technology

• 17 Dec 10
  

  Michael Simborg

  history classification internet information hypertext UX UXD UI ia

• 22 Nov 10
  

  James Neal

  paulotlet otlet

• 13 Oct 10
  

  A Kat

  LIS Dotan Bio8

• 20 Mar 10
  

  Antonia Ruiz Koffman

  LIBR 200

• 27 Oct 09
  

  danbri

  paulotlet foaf semweb

• 31 Aug 09
  

  Sydney Wired

  paulotlet uxaustralia uxaustralia09 alexwright history otlet hypertext information internet web technology library classification

• 26 May 09
  

  Franjo Pehar

  Paul Otlet

• 19 Mar 09
  

  Faith Chiang

  ia history

• 19 Aug 08
  

  Mace Ojala

  an article on Paul Otlet's (1868-1944) vision and project to catalog all of human knowledge into a massive research library, the Mundaneum, and how similar the web 2.0 and semantic web are with his ideas

  paul otlet history biography information research library storage philosophy social semantic internet web web2.0 management udc catalog cataloging taxonomy

• 22 May 08
  

  Bill D

  article classification history web ontology information semantic taxonomy

• 19 May 08
  

  sarnu01

  history information hypertext internet toread

• 18 May 08
  

  glen gatin

  library2.0 systems history for:gatins

• 02 Apr 08
  

  Veronika Smith

  great article on history of UDC, otlet and faceted classification

  classification database faceted facets information library architecture web history knowledgeorganization

• 29 Feb 08
  

  Tijl Vandersteene

  article classification otlet information history technology

• 11 Feb 08
  

  Jennifer Davis

  IS_classification_schemes LIBR200-01 IS_bibliography

• 05 Feb 08
  

  jennibeth
• 26 Jan 08
  

  Alain Depocas

  Article de Alex Wright

  Structure_Donnees Sciences_Information

• 11 Oct 07
  

  Maggie Leber

  PaulOtlet information informationDesign

• 13 Sep 07
  

  Martin Lindner

  on paul otlet (first heard of him through Frank Hartmann, media scientist in Vienna, at the Wittegenstein2007 conference)

  mediatheory delicious

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  Julian Elve

  ia

• 12 Sep 07
  

  web web0.1 classification history hypertext technology tagging

• 19 Dec 06
  

  Bibliotheek VAStest1801

  bibliotheekwetenschap_paul_otlet

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  Bibliotheek Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw

  bibliotheekwetenschappen Otlet Paul

• 02 Oct 06
  

  tonywebsoc

  otlet historia

• 13 Sep 06
  

  jennybento

  furl Bookmarks classification history information otlet hypertext internet web

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  classification

• 22 Jun 06
  

  zpinhead

  In Otlet’s world, each user would leave an imprint, a trail, which would then become part of the explicit history of each document.

  taxonomy libraries hypertext

• 22 Apr 06
  

  kevin kirwin

  Digital Assets Metadata

  • Otlet began developing what came to be known as the Universal Decimal Classification,
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  kevin kirwin

  Digital Assets Metadata

  • Otlet began developing what came to be known as the Universal Decimal Classification,
• 19 Mar 06
  

  Mark Lindner

  librariana article history from:delicious

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  Julian Elve on 2007-09-13
  Paul Otlet - possibly the inventor of Information Architecture, certainly the inventor of the first full implementations of a faceted classification system

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