Film: The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World
In 1934, a Belgian visionary named Paul Otlet conceived of a library with no physical books whose contents could be viewed on a screen. His obsession was to classify, encode and unify books and documents published all over the world. Over the years, he and his staff would fill in 12 million index cards. His classification system is regarded today as similar to hypertext.
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I'm so glad you linked to more about this film. I wanted to hear more about it yesterday when you mentioned it, but we ran out of time at the end of the day.
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