Biographical Index to Documentation and Information Science History
  Paul Otlet,
Pioneer of Information Management.
Translations of this page:
Пол
Адлёт, Піянер кіравання інфармацыяй, Belarussian
translation by the Translator Group, 2017.
Bengali
translation by CouponBuffer.com
(Nazmun Nahar), 2017.
Paul
Otlet, Pionir Upravljanje Informacijama. Bosnian
translation by Amina Dugalić, 2017.
Пол Отлет,
Пионер в управлението на информацията, Bulgarian
translation by Zlatan Dimitrov, Mar 2020.
*New* 保罗·欧特莱 (Paul Otlet 1868-1944):信息管理先驱, Chinese translation by Matthew Ma of Ecigator, Nov 2022.
Pavao Otlet Pioneer za Upravljanje Informacijama. Croation
translation by Ivana Horak, 2017.
Paul Otlet,
Průkopník řízení informacíi. Czech
translation by Ivana Horak, 2017.
Paul
Otlet page. Danish translation by BorderCollieTalk.
Paul
Otlet. Dutch translation by www.simonlydiscount.nl
(Michel Blok), 2018.
Paul
Otlet, pioneer teabe haldamine. Estonian translation
by Johanne Teerink, 2017.
Paul
Otlet, edelläkävijä Tiedonhallinta. Finnish
translation by Elsa Jannson, 2017.
Paul
Otlet, Pionnier de la Gestion de l’Information. French
translation by Jimmy Anastasovski, 2017.
პოლ ოტლეტი/Paul Otlet,
ინფორმაციის მენეჯმენტის პიონერი. Georgian translation by
Ana Mirilashvili, Jan 2020.
*New* Paul
Otlet, der Pionier des Informationsmanagements. German translation
by SmartWritingService,
Feb 2022.
Hungarian translation
by Elana Pavlet, 2016.
Paul Otlet, Pioneer Manajemen Informatika. Indonesian
translation by Jordan Silaen at ChameleonJohn, 2016.
Paul
Otlet, Pioniere di Gestione dell’Informazione. Italian translation
by Musicskanner.com, 2017.
アウトレット – 日本.
Japanese translation by Haruto Anami at Daily Deals Coupon, 2017.
Пол Отлет, ақпаратты басқарудың
пионері. Kazakh translation by Alana Kerimova, 2019.
*New* 폴
오틀렛 (Paul Otlet), 정보 관리의 선구자, Korean translation by Yue
Hu of PlayerAuctions,
Nov 2022.
Павле
Отлет, Пионер на управување со информации. Macedonian translation
by Katerina Nestiv, 2016.
Paul Otlet, Foregangsperson informasjonsforvaltning.
Norwegian translation by Lars Olden, 2018.
Paul
Otlet: Pionier Zarządzania Informacją". Polish translation by Marek
Murawski, 2018.
Paul Otlet. Portuguese
translation by Artur Weber and Adelina Domingos for www.homeyou.com/~edu/, 2017.
ਪੌਲ ਓਲਟ, ਸੂਚਨਾ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧਨ ਦੇ ਪਾਇਨੀਅਰ,
Punjabi translation by Discount Codes, 2018.
Paul Otlet
Pionier al managementului informatiilor. Romanian
translation by Irina Vasilescu, 2017.
Пол
Отлет, пионер в области управления информацией. Russian
translation by Olha Fiodorova, 2017.
پال اوٽليٽ ، انفارميشن مئنيجمينٽ جو پينئ
. Sindhi translation by Muntazir Mehdi, Jan 2021.
Paul
Otlet, Pionier of Informačného Manažmentu. Slovak translation by baccarat.net, July 2020.
Paul
Otlet, pionir informacijskega managementa. Slovenian translation by www.baccarat.net/sl/, July 2020.
Paul
Otlet, pionero de la Gestión de la Información.
Spanish translation by Jose, Ibidem Group, Aug 2021.
Paul
Otlet, Pionjär inom Information Management. Swedish translation
by Weronika Pawlak, 2017.
பால் ஆட்லெட், தக
வல் மேலாணையத்தின் முன்னோடி. Tamil translationslation by Sathya at www.vikatan.com, 2017.
Paul
Otlet พอลความคิดผู้บุกเบิกการจัดการข้อมูล.
Thai translation by Ashna Bhatt, 2018.
Ortağı
Paul Otlet’in, Bilgi Yönetimi, Öncü. Turkish translation by
Zoltan Solak, 2018.
Поль
Отле, Піонер Інформаційного Менеджменту. Ukrainian
translation by Anna Matesh, 2016.
پاول اوٹلیٹ, سرخیل اول انفارمیشن مینجمنٹ Urdu
translation by ClothingRIC, 2018.
Paul Otlet
(portrait)
was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1868. His monumental book
Traité de documentation. (Brussels, 1934)
was both central and
symbolic in the development of information science - then called
"Documentation" - in the first half of the twentieth century. In
addition, it reminds us of something that has been too widely
forgotten: That this field did have a lively existence in the
early decades of the twentieth century and a sophistication concerning
theory and information technology that now commonly
surprises people.
Paul Otlet was the most central figure in the development
of Documentation. He struggled tirelessly for decades with
the central technical, theoretical, and organizational aspects of
a problem central to society: How to make recorded knowledge
available to those who need it. He thought deeply and wrote
endlessly as he designed, developed, and initiated ambitious
solutions at his Institute in Brussels.
Towards the end of working life he summarized his ideas in two
large books of synthesis, the Traité de documentation
in 1934 and Monde: Essai d'universalisme in 1935.
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Otlet's work.
In 1989 the Traité, so long out of print, was in reprinted.
In 1990 his biographer, Prof W. Boyd Rayward, of the University
of New South Wales, published an annotated English translation of a selection of
Otlet's best writings:
Otlet, Paul. International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge:
Selected Essays. (FID 684). Amsterdam: Elsevier,
1990.
Now Otlet's ideas and writings are again
an active ingredient in information science, having historical
interest and also a contemporary interest in relation, for example,
to the nature of documents and of hypertext.
It is now a century since Otlet and
LaFontaine
began their ambitious
program which continues as the International Federation for Information
and Documentation
FID.
(Adapted from the Preface to the Spanish edition of
Otlet's Traité).
Otlet and LaFontaine were also active in the founding of the
Union of International Associations.
Resources
- selected writings about Otlet,
his work, and his successors.
- Otlet's archives and museum is now available again at Rue des Passages 15,
B-7000 Mons,in Mons, Belgium, as
The Mundaneum,
which has started to publish research based on these archives,
notably Cent ans de l'Office International de Bibliographie :
1895 - 1995 ; les premisses du Mundaneum. - Mons : Editions
Mundaneum, 1995. ISBN 2-930071-05-2.
(Review
in German).
- - HyperOtlet
project
and a new open access edition of Traité de documentation,
2021. See also a facsimile edition.
- Alex Wright. Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet
and the Birth of the Information Age. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Special issue on Otlet Transnational Associations 2003, nos 1-2. pdf
- Francoise Levie: L'homme qui voulait classer le monde [The man who wanted to classifiy the
the world]. Biography and
documentary film.
- Rayward's 1975 biography is now available
online.
- Documentary by B. Rayward (speaking English) and F. Fueg (speaking French): Alle kennis van de wereld
(Noorderlicht, 9). Available at
http://archive.org/details/paulotlet.
- A wry comment from France:
When
America discovers Paul Otlet.
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