Traité de Documentation
In today's world, Traité de Documentation has acquired unexpected relevance. Its impact has been felt in every area of society, from politics to culture, technology and the economy. It is impossible to ignore its presence, since its effects can be seen in the daily lives of millions of people around the world. Therefore, it is imperative to delve into its implications and understand the role it plays today. This article aims to explore the different facets of Traité de Documentation, analyzing its influence and its repercussions in different areas, in order to shed light on a phenomenon that is constantly evolving.
Traité de documentation: le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique is a landmark book by Belgian author Paul Otlet, first published in 1934.
Legacy
The book is considered a landmark in the history of information science, with concepts predicting the rise of the World Wide Web and search engines.
In most famous publication of 1934, Traité de Documentation, he wrote of a desk in the form of a wheel from which different projects (workspaces) could be switched as they rotated — foreshadowing the multiple desktops and tabs of contemporary computer interfaces. Inspired by the arrival of radio, phonograph, cinema, and television, Otlet also posited that there were as yet many “inventions to be discovered,” including the reading and annotation of remote documents and computer speech.
See also
- Mundaneum
- Traité de documentation on Wikisource.
References
- ^ Joseph Reagle (2010) Good Faith Collaboration, chapter 2.
External links
- Traité de documentation at the Internet Archive
- Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Management
- Traité de documentation : le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique at Google Books
- Internet Dreamers: Paul Otlet
- “The Web That Wasn’t” and “Augmenting Human Intellect”
- Internet Visionary Paul Otlet: Networked Knowledge, Decades Before Google
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