Description: Hommage to Paul Otlet, a father of information science
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Hommage to Paul Otlet, a father of information science
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet ( / ɒ t ˈ l eɪ / ; French: [ɔtle] ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and peace activist; predicting the arrival of the internet before World War II, [1] he is among those considered to be the father of information science , a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification , which would later become a faceted classification . Otlet was responsible for the development of an early information retrieval
In 1907, following a huge international conference, Otlet and Henri La Fontaine created the Central Office of International Associations, which was renamed to the Union of International Associations in 1910, and which is still located in Brussels . They also created a great international center called at first Palais Mondial (World Palace), later, the Mundaneum to house the collections and activities of their various organizations and institutes.