
The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World
2002-01-01 · 60 min · ★ 7.3
Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.
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- Françoise Levie
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- Belgium
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