Sociotard
Oct 1st, '07, 10:22 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
The greatest unknown revolutionary was the Belgian Paul Otlet. In 1895 he set about freeing the information in books from their bindings. He built a universal decimal classification and then figured out how that organized data could be explored, via “links” and a “web.” In 1910 Otlet created a “radiated library” called the Mundameum in Brussels that managed search queries in a massive way until the Nazis destroyed the service.[
Watch the youtube Demo! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y)
The greatest unknown revolutionary was the Belgian Paul Otlet. In 1895 he set about freeing the information in books from their bindings. He built a universal decimal classification and then figured out how that organized data could be explored, via “links” and a “web.” In 1910 Otlet created a “radiated library” called the Mundameum in Brussels that managed search queries in a massive way until the Nazis destroyed the service.[
Watch the youtube Demo! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y)