Cataloging the World. Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age - WRIGHT Alex

KORTE INHOUD

Hardcover, dj, in-8, 350 pp., bibl., index.
Paul Otlet (1868-1944).
The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius.

In Cataloging the World, Alex Wright introduces us to a figure who stands out in the long line of thinkers and idealists who devoted themselves to the task. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Paul Otlet, a librarian by training, worked at expanding the potential of the catalog card, the world's first information chip. From there followed universal libraries and museums, connecting his native Belgium to the world by means of a vast intellectual enterprise that attempted to organize and code everything ever published. Forty years before the first personal computer and fifty years ...
2014Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2014Uitgever: Oxford University Press350 paginasTaal: Engels