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P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the international perspective in the history of documentation and information science

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
71 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

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✦ Synopsis

According to Paul Otlet, in order to face the worldwide glects spatial and geographical data. He is aware of coninterdependence which was evidenced in the First World temporary data and the special features of his specific War, we need an international center for the storage and position in an historical period. But together with this, he dissemination of knowledge: The Mundaneum (1928).

has a broader vision, both in time and space. If he was

To study this utopian project is to study how positivism, able to forecast necessary evolutions, it was because he centralism, and monumentalism have determined Otlet's international perspective. His project of a colossal Bibli-was able to take into account the radical changes that opolis contrasts very much with the position of Georges occurred following the First World War. Otlet understood Bataille (a French writer who was librarian at the Bibliothat the correct scale for contemporary space could only the `que Nationale from 1922 to 1942) who denounced the be an international one in order to correspond to the totalitarian threat of centralized monumental structures.

worldwide interdependence that determined all aspects of But we show that, in spite of his centralism and his monumentalism, Paul Otlet foresaw our world-wide net-social life since the First World War. According to Otlet, worked environment and that his three-dimensional consuch an international space needs an international center ception of information can be still useful for developing in order to be rationally organized. That was the mission Computer Assisted Palaces of Memory connected to Inof the Mundaneum, an architectural project first conternational Virtual Libraries.

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