Talk:Paul Otlet

An appeal to the anonymous user at 128.174.155.55
A few months ago, I took the initiative of boldly rewriting Paul Otlet's page. Now I see that you have added a lot to this page in recent days and I'm very happy to see someone expand the article on this fascinating person. I would like to work with you (and other volunteers) on improving this article further and giving more visibility to Paul Otlet in the rest of Wikipedia. Could you open an account so that we can talk? -- JFG 14:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Requested citation found, not verified
"By April 1934 Otlet (1989) noted that the number of cards in the database was 15,646,346. (p. 405)."

FROM: Rayward, W. Boyd, Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext, American Society for Information Science, Journal,  45:4 (1994:May):235-250

Rayward's citation is:

Otlet, P. (1989). Traité de Documentation. Le Livre sur le Livre: Théorie et Pratique (reprint of the 1934 ed.) Liège : Centre de Lecture publique de la Communauté française.

TLee07 (talk) 15:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Great article
Can this fascinating article be nominated as a feature article or as a "good" article (I don't know the technical name)? Kdammers (talk) 00:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

article
Internet Visionary Paul Otlet: Networked Knowledge, Decades Before Google http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,775951,00.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.133.250.88 (talk) 05:56, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification
Not really. Deway created and Otlet & La Fontaine saw the usability 91.64.125.21 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:57, 17 November 2011 (UTC).


 * In fact, Dewey's classification and Otlet-La Fontaine classification have so many differences that you can really call each one different systems. They share the basics, except the number 4., which is empty in the UDC, whereas it describes Philology in the DDC (Languages are in the number 8. in the UDC). Other remarkable differences are the use of notations and facets. They're not the same system, but the UCD is heavily and obviously based on the DDC, in short. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.9.229.189 (talk) 22:40, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Later Years & Death?
This article is very interesting and important but it doesn't seem to cover Paul Otlet's later years and how he died. Can someone please add this to this article if anyone knows what those details are? I think this deserves its own section too. Simon Rashleigh 09:32, 24 September 2014 (UTC) Simon Rashleigh

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Update on Political views and involvement
I just updated the paragraph Political views and involvement. In conversation with colleagues that have been working on his legacy, we felt a more critical reading of Otlet's political views was overdue. I tried to formulate as precisely as possible but since I am not a regular Wikipedian editor I might have made mistakes. Please let me know and I will correct as soon as possible. Thank you!

--FmkeS (talk) 13:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)--77.109.112.232 (talk) 13:23, 13 April 2020 (UTC)