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Re:Paul Otlet Envisioned the Internet Before Computers, With... by dredmorbius on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:19PM (#22051232)
What interest me at the moment are contemporary views of Otlet's philosophy of cataloguing and classification.

His Universal Decimal Classification still exists, and has a common lineage with Melvil Dewey's Decimal Classification.

Otlet's notion of comprehensive bibliographic metadata seems somewhat passe, with modern focus on full-text-search and reputational ranking.

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