Paul Otlet's 1934 work, "Traité de documentation," is a foundational text in library science and bibliography. It is notable for its early conceptualization of a universal, interconnected information system, predating modern internet concepts.
Sources for Paul Otlet — Traité de documentation
Paul Otlet — Traité de documentation in Knowledge Itself
Held in the Knowledge Itself chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Francis Bacon — The Advancement of Learning (1605)
- Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620)
- John Locke — An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert — Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia (1751)
- Melvil Dewey — A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing (1876)
- Charles Sanders Peirce — How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)
- J. E. Quibell — The Ramesseum (1898)
- H. G. Wells — World Brain (1937)
- Callimachus — Pinakes (c. 250 BCE)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Monadology (1714)