Paul Otlet : le Belge qui a inventé Internet avant Google (et sans les cookies)
Ou comment deux juristes belges ont fait mieux que la Silicon Valley avec des fiches cartonnées.
Paul Otlet : le Belge qui a inventé Internet avant Google (et sans les cookies)
Ou comment deux juristes belges ont fait mieux que la Silicon Valley avec des fiches cartonnées.
@wallingf Advent of Computing podcast has two episodes on Otlet.
The first is https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-107-the-mundaneum-part-i
The Internet is the closest we've come to a universal store of all human knowledge. However, it's not the first pass at this lofty goal. In this episode(and the next) we are looking at the Mundaneum, a project started in the 1890s to address the information problem. How is it connected to the larger story of hypertext? And how can this older project inform our views on the information problem? Selected sources: -- Selected Essays of Paul Otlet
Paul Otlet, der Urahn von Google