Otlet’s writings have sometimes been called prescient of the current World Wide Web. His vision of a great network of knowledge was centered on documents and included the notions of hyperlinks, search engines, remote access, and social networks—although these notions were described by different names.
Visionary for the concept of the hyperlink, Traité De Documentation (1934)
Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent examples of faceted classification.
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