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* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/1c/Otlet_l_afrique_aux_noirs.pdf ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/1c/Otlet_l_afrique_aux_noirs.pdf ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
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* Paul Otlet, ''L’Éducation et les Instituts du Palais Mondial (Mundaneum)''. Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales, 1926.
 
* Paul Otlet, ''L’Éducation et les Instituts du Palais Mondial (Mundaneum)''. Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales, 1926.
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* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/78/Otlet_cite_mondiale.pdf ''Cité mondiale. Geneva: World civic center: Mundaneum'']. Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales, 1929.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/78/Otlet_cite_mondiale.pdf ''Cité mondiale. Geneva: World civic center: Mundaneum'']. Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales, 1929.
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* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/2/2c/OtletTraitDocumentation.pdf ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/2/2c/OtletTraitDocumentation.pdf ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934.
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* Paul Otlet, [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/378026/file/460268.pdf ''Monde: essai d'universalisme - Connaissance du Monde, Sentiment du Monde, Action organisee et Plan du Monde''], Bruxelles: Editiones Mundeum 1935. See also: http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/uia/docs/otlet_contents.php
 
* Paul Otlet, [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/378026/file/460268.pdf ''Monde: essai d'universalisme - Connaissance du Monde, Sentiment du Monde, Action organisee et Plan du Monde''], Bruxelles: Editiones Mundeum 1935. See also: http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/uia/docs/otlet_contents.php
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* Paul Otlet, ''Plan belgique; essai d'un plan général, économique, social, culturel. Plan d'urbanisation national. Liaison avec le plan mondial. Conditions. Problèmes. Solutions. Réformes'', Bruxelles: Éditiones Mundaneum, 1935.
 
* Paul Otlet, ''Plan belgique; essai d'un plan général, économique, social, culturel. Plan d'urbanisation national. Liaison avec le plan mondial. Conditions. Problèmes. Solutions. Réformes'', Bruxelles: Éditiones Mundaneum, 1935.
  
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* Jacques Gillen, Stéphanie Manfroid, and Raphaèle Cornille (eds.), [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/paul-otlet-architecte-du-savoir-artisan-de-paix ''Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix,''] Mons: Éditions Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010.
 
* Jacques Gillen, Stéphanie Manfroid, and Raphaèle Cornille (eds.), [http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr/paul-otlet-architecte-du-savoir-artisan-de-paix ''Paul Otlet, fondateur du Mundaneum (1868-1944). Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix,''] Mons: Éditions Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010.
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* Françoise Levie, [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/l%27homme_qui_voulait_classer_le_monde.htm''L’homme qui voulait classer le monde. Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum''], Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006.
 
* Françoise Levie, [http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/l%27homme_qui_voulait_classer_le_monde.htm''L’homme qui voulait classer le monde. Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum''], Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006.
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* Warden Boyd Rayward, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/91/Rayward_The_Universe_of_Information.pdf ''The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization''], FID Publication 520, Moscow: International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), 1975.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/91/Rayward_The_Universe_of_Information.pdf ''The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization''], FID Publication 520, Moscow: International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), 1975.
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* Warden Boyd Rayward, ''Universum informastsii Zhizn' i deiatl' nost' Polia Otle'', Trans. R.S. Giliarevesky, Moscow: VINITI,  1976.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward, ''Universum informastsii Zhizn' i deiatl' nost' Polia Otle'', Trans. R.S. Giliarevesky, Moscow: VINITI,  1976.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward (ed.), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/16/Rayward_International_organisation_and_dissemination_of_knowledge.pdf ''International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet''], Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward (ed.), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/16/Rayward_International_organisation_and_dissemination_of_knowledge.pdf ''International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet''], Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990.
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* Warden Boyd Rayward, ''El Universo de la Documentacion: la obra de Paul Otlet sobra documentacion y organizacion internacional'', Trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundanau, 2005.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward, ''El Universo de la Documentacion: la obra de Paul Otlet sobra documentacion y organizacion internacional'', Trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundanau, 2005.
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* Warden Boyd Raywar, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 45, no. 4 (05, 1994): 235-251.
 
* Warden Boyd Raywar, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 45, no. 4 (05, 1994): 235-251.
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* Warden Boyd Rayward (who translated and adapted), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Warden_Boyd_Rayward_Mundaneum-_Archives_of_Knowledge.pdf ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward (who translated and adapted), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Warden_Boyd_Rayward_Mundaneum-_Archives_of_Knowledge.pdf ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
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* Wouter Van Acker,[http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath” in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
 
* Wouter Van Acker,[http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath” in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
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* Wouter Van Acker,  “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
 
* Wouter Van Acker,  “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
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* Theater Adhoc, [http://www.theateradhoc.com/items/pdf/performance-lecture.pdf The humor and tragedy of completeness], 2005
 
* Theater Adhoc, [http://www.theateradhoc.com/items/pdf/performance-lecture.pdf The humor and tragedy of completeness], 2005
  
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* Christophe Lejeune, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/1a/Lejeune_Ce_que_l%E2%80%99annuaire_fait_%C3%A0_Internet.pdf ''Ce que l’annuaire fait à Internet - Sociologie des  épreuves documentaires''], in Cahiers dela  documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2006/3.
 
* Christophe Lejeune, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/1/1a/Lejeune_Ce_que_l%E2%80%99annuaire_fait_%C3%A0_Internet.pdf ''Ce que l’annuaire fait à Internet - Sociologie des  épreuves documentaires''], in Cahiers dela  documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2006/3.
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* Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/92/Paul_Dourish_Genevieve_Bell_Divining_a_Digital.pdf ''Divining a Digital Future''], Chicago: MIT Press 2011.
 
* Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/92/Paul_Dourish_Genevieve_Bell_Divining_a_Digital.pdf ''Divining a Digital Future''], Chicago: MIT Press 2011.
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* John Johnston, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/f/f1/John_Johnston_The_Allure_of_Machinic_Life_%28BookZZ.org%29.pdf ''The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI''],  Chicago: MIT Press 2008.
 
* John Johnston, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/f/f1/John_Johnston_The_Allure_of_Machinic_Life_%28BookZZ.org%29.pdf ''The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI''],  Chicago: MIT Press 2008.
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* Charles van den Heuvel [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/5/57/Heuvel_Building_Society_Constructing_Knowledge.pdf ''Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web''], in Boyd Rayward [ed.] European Modernism and the Information Society, London: Ashgate Publishers 2008, chapter 7 pp. 127-153.
 
* Charles van den Heuvel [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/5/57/Heuvel_Building_Society_Constructing_Knowledge.pdf ''Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web''], in Boyd Rayward [ed.] European Modernism and the Information Society, London: Ashgate Publishers 2008, chapter 7 pp. 127-153.
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* Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/d/d2/Tim_Berners-Lee_James_Hendler_Ora_Lassila_The_Semantic_Web.pdf ''The Semantic Web''], in Scientific American - SCI AMER , vol. 284, no. 5, pp. 34-43, 2001.
 
* Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/d/d2/Tim_Berners-Lee_James_Hendler_Ora_Lassila_The_Semantic_Web.pdf ''The Semantic Web''], in Scientific American - SCI AMER , vol. 284, no. 5, pp. 34-43, 2001.
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* Alex Wright, [http://www.catalogingtheworld.com/ ''Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age''], Oxford University Press, 2014.
 
* Alex Wright, [http://www.catalogingtheworld.com/ ''Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age''], Oxford University Press, 2014.
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* Popova, Maria, [http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/paul-otlet-alex-wright/ “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”], ''Brain Pickings'', 2014.
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* Heuvel, Charles van den,  “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in ''European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past'', Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
  
 
== Classifying the world ==
 
== Classifying the world ==
  
 
* ShinJoung Yeo, James R. Jacobs, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/62/ShinJoung_Yeo%2C_James_R._Jacobs%2C_Diversity_matters.pdf ''Diversity matters? Rethinking diversity in libraries''],  Radical Reference Countepoise 9 (2) Spring, 2006. p. 5-8.
 
* ShinJoung Yeo, James R. Jacobs, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/62/ShinJoung_Yeo%2C_James_R._Jacobs%2C_Diversity_matters.pdf ''Diversity matters? Rethinking diversity in libraries''],  Radical Reference Countepoise 9 (2) Spring, 2006. p. 5-8.
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* Thomas Hapke, [http://muse.jhu.edu.sci-hub.io/journals/library_trends/v061/61.2.hapke.pdf ''Wilhelm Ostwald's Combinatorics as a Link between In-formation and Form''], in Library Trends, Volume 61, Number 2, Fall 2012.
 
* Thomas Hapke, [http://muse.jhu.edu.sci-hub.io/journals/library_trends/v061/61.2.hapke.pdf ''Wilhelm Ostwald's Combinatorics as a Link between In-formation and Form''], in Library Trends, Volume 61, Number 2, Fall 2012.
* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/65/Okruhlik_Otto_Neurath.pdf ''Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics''], Cambridge University Press
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* John Brown, Paul Duguid The Social Life of Information Harvard Business Press
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* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/65/Okruhlik_Otto_Neurath.pdf ''Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics'']. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
* Nathan Ensmenger [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/0/0b/Ensmenger_The_Computer_Boys_Take_Over%28BookZZ.org%29.pdf ''The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise''] MIT Press
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* Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System Basic Books
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* Nathan Ensmenger, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/0/0b/Ensmenger_The_Computer_Boys_Take_Over%28BookZZ.org%29.pdf ''The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise'']. MIT Press, 2010.
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* Ronald E. Day, [http://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Day_Ronald_E_Modern_Invention_of_Information_Discourse_History_and_Power.pdf ''The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power''], Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
 
* Ronald E. Day, [http://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Day_Ronald_E_Modern_Invention_of_Information_Discourse_History_and_Power.pdf ''The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power''], Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
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* Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/a/ab/Markus_Krajewski%2C_Peter_Krapp_Paper_Machines_Ab.pdf ''Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929''] The MIT Press
 
* Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/a/ab/Markus_Krajewski%2C_Peter_Krapp_Paper_Machines_Ab.pdf ''Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929''] The MIT Press
* Eric de Groller [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/f/f3/Groller_A_Study_of_general_categories_applicable_to_classification_and_coding_in_documentation.pdf ''A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation'']; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962
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* Eric de Groller [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/f/f3/Groller_A_Study_of_general_categories_applicable_to_classification_and_coding_in_documentation.pdf ''A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation'']; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962.
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* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
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* Marlene Manoff, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/ec/Manoff_Theories_of_the_archive_from_across_the_disciplines.pdf ''"Theories of the archive from across the disciplines,"''] in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004), pp. 9–25.
 
* Marlene Manoff, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/ec/Manoff_Theories_of_the_archive_from_across_the_disciplines.pdf ''"Theories of the archive from across the disciplines,"''] in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004), pp. 9–25.
 
* Charles van den Heuvel, W. Boyd Rayward, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_Facing_Interfaces.pdf ''Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration'']. Journal of the American society for information science and technology (2011)
 
* Charles van den Heuvel, W. Boyd Rayward, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_Facing_Interfaces.pdf ''Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration'']. Journal of the American society for information science and technology (2011)
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== Embedded hierarchies ==
 
== Embedded hierarchies ==
  
* [[wikipedia:Paul Otlet|Otlet, Paul]], [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
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* Paul Otlet, [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
  
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
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* Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in ''Knowledge Organization'', no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
 
* Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in ''Knowledge Organization'', no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
 
* Popova, Maria, [http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/paul-otlet-alex-wright/ “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”], ''Brain Pickings'', 2014.
 
 
* Heuvel, Charles van den,  “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in ''European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past'', Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
 
  
 
== Architectural visions ==  
 
== Architectural visions ==  
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* Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).
 
* Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).
 
  
 
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Cross-readings. Not a bibliography.

Paul Otlet

  • Paul Otlet, L’Éducation et les Instituts du Palais Mondial (Mundaneum). Bruxelles: Union des Associations Internationales, 1926.
  • Paul Otlet, Plan belgique; essai d'un plan général, économique, social, culturel. Plan d'urbanisation national. Liaison avec le plan mondial. Conditions. Problèmes. Solutions. Réformes, Bruxelles: Éditiones Mundaneum, 1935.

Re-reading Otlet

  • Warden Boyd Rayward, El Universo de la Documentacion: la obra de Paul Otlet sobra documentacion y organizacion internacional, Trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid: Mundanau, 2005.
  • Warden Boyd Raywar, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 45, no. 4 (05, 1994): 235-251.
  • Warden Boyd Rayward (who translated and adapted), Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
  • Wouter Van Acker, “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.

Fathers of the internet

Constructing a posthumous pre-history of contemporary networking technologies.

  • Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, in Scientific American - SCI AMER , vol. 284, no. 5, pp. 34-43, 2001.
  • Heuvel, Charles van den, “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.

Classifying the world

Don't be evil

Standing on the hands of Internet giants

  • Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Evil Media. Cambridge, Mass., United States: MIT Press, 2012.
  • Steve Levy In The Plex. Simon & Schuster, 2011.
  • William Miller, Living With Google. In: Journal of Library Administration Volume 47, Issue 1-2, 2008.

Embedded hierarchies

  • Paul Otlet, Traité de documentation, Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
  • Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in Knowledge Organization, no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.

Architectural visions

Writings on how Otlet's knowledge site was successively imagined and visualized on grand architectural scales.

  • Catherine Courtiau, "La cité internationale 1927-1931," in Transnational Associations, 5/1987: 255-266.
  • Giuliano Gresleri and Dario Matteoni. La Città Mondiale: Andersen, Hébrard, Otlet, Le Corbusier. Venezia: Marsilio, 1982.
  • Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarie, "P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Perspective in the History of Documentation and Information science," in Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998)48.4 (Apr 1997): 301-309.
  • Wouter Van Acker. "Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier." Library Trends 61, no. 2 (2012): 371-396.
  • Van Acker, Wouter, Somsen, Geert, “A Tale of Two World Capitals – the Internationalisms of Pieter Eijkman and Paul Otlet”, in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, Vol. 90, nr.4, 2012.
  • Anthony Vidler, “The Space of History: Modern Museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier,” in The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts, ed. Michaela Giebelhausen (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003).
  • Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).

Zeitgeist

It includes both century-old sources and more recent ones on the parallel or entangled movements around the Mundaneum time.

  • Julie Carlier, "Moving beyond Boundaries: An Entangled History of Feminism in Belgium, 1890–1914," Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Gent, 2010. (esp. 439-458.)
  • Bambi Ceuppens, Congo made in Flanders?: koloniale Vlaamse visies op "blank" en "zwart" in Belgisch Congo. [Gent]: Academia Press, 2004.
  • Sylvie Fayet-Scribe, "Women Professionals in Documentation in France during the 1930s," Libraries & the Cultural Record Vol. 44, No. 2, Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences Part I, 1900-1950 (2009), pp. 201-219. (translated by Michael Buckland)
  • François Garas, Mes temples. Paris: Michalon, 1907.
  • Madeleine Herren, Hintertüren zur Macht: Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Aussenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914. München: Oldenbourg, 2000.
  • Robert Hoozee and Mary Anne Stevens, Impressionism to Symbolism: The Belgian Avant-Garde 1880-1900, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1994.
  • Elisée Reclus, Nouvelle géographie universelle; la terre et les hommes, Paris, Hachette et cie., 1876-94.
  • Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).

What links here