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'Otlet imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an “electric telescope” connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen. In Otlet’s time, this notion of networked documents was still so novel that no one had a word to describe these relationships, until he invented one: “links.” Otlet envisioned the whole endeavor as a great “réseau”—web—of human knowledge.'<ref>Alex Wright: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet http://boxesandarrows.com/forgotten-forefather-paul-otlet</ref> | 'Otlet imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an “electric telescope” connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen. In Otlet’s time, this notion of networked documents was still so novel that no one had a word to describe these relationships, until he invented one: “links.” Otlet envisioned the whole endeavor as a great “réseau”—web—of human knowledge.'<ref>Alex Wright: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet http://boxesandarrows.com/forgotten-forefather-paul-otlet</ref> | ||
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| − | + | [[Bernard Otlet]] (great-grandson): Paul Otlet, inventor of the internet <ref> "Paul Otlet: le rêve et la norme", 6 Feb. 2007: http://www.sonuma.be/archive/paul-otlet-le-r%C3%AAve-et-la-norme (min. 3:00)</ref> | |
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'Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: Otlet’s Visualizations of a Global Information Society and His Concept of a Universal Civilization'<ref>Van den Heuvel, C. Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web. Otlet’s visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization. In W.B. Rayward (Ed.), (2008) European Modernism and the Information Society (pp. 127–153). London: Ashgate.</ref> | 'Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: Otlet’s Visualizations of a Global Information Society and His Concept of a Universal Civilization'<ref>Van den Heuvel, C. Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web. Otlet’s visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization. In W.B. Rayward (Ed.), (2008) European Modernism and the Information Society (pp. 127–153). London: Ashgate.</ref> | ||
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Jean-Michel Djian, "Le Mundaneum, Google de papier" & "le Mundaneum, a posé les bases de la science documentaire – et préfigurait Internet avec un siècle d’avance." | Jean-Michel Djian, "Le Mundaneum, Google de papier" & "le Mundaneum, a posé les bases de la science documentaire – et préfigurait Internet avec un siècle d’avance." | ||
| − | [[ | + | [[Jean-Paul Deplus]] quoted in Jean-Michel Djian: "Ils ont inventé Google avant la lettre. Non seulement ils l’ont fait avec les seuls outils dont ils disposaient, c’est-à-dire de l’encre et du papier, mais leur imagination était si féconde que l’on a retrouvé les dessins et croquis de ce qui préfigure Internet un siècle plus tard."<ref>Jean-Michel Djian, "Le Mundaneum, Google de papier," Le Monde Magazine, 19 December 2009, p. 46-50. </ref> |
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'He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the communication of knowledge. His theoretical approach to the organi-zation and dissemination of information was far ahead of its time, notably in foreshadowing the Internet, Hypertext, and the World Wide Web.'<ref>[[wikipedia:Warden Boyd Rayward|Rayward, Warden Boyd]] (who translated and adapted), [https://ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/15431/Rayward_215_WEB.pdf?sequence=2 ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.</ref> | 'He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the communication of knowledge. His theoretical approach to the organi-zation and dissemination of information was far ahead of its time, notably in foreshadowing the Internet, Hypertext, and the World Wide Web.'<ref>[[wikipedia:Warden Boyd Rayward|Rayward, Warden Boyd]] (who translated and adapted), [https://ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/15431/Rayward_215_WEB.pdf?sequence=2 ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.</ref> | ||
== 2011 == | == 2011 == | ||
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"Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Er plante ein mechanisches Gehirn und kabellose Kommunikation: Der belgische Bibliothekar Paul Otlet entwarf Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts die erste Suchmaschine der Welt - lange vor Computern und Internet. Warum gerieten seine revolutionären Ideen in Vergessenheit?"<ref> Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Meike Laaf, Der Spiegel 20.07.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzvisionaer-paul-otlet-googles-genialer-urahn-a-768312.html</ref> | "Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Er plante ein mechanisches Gehirn und kabellose Kommunikation: Der belgische Bibliothekar Paul Otlet entwarf Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts die erste Suchmaschine der Welt - lange vor Computern und Internet. Warum gerieten seine revolutionären Ideen in Vergessenheit?"<ref> Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Meike Laaf, Der Spiegel 20.07.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzvisionaer-paul-otlet-googles-genialer-urahn-a-768312.html</ref> | ||
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'The unsung heroes of the Internet'<ref>http://expositions.mundaneum.org/fr/conferences/linventeur-de-linternet-vinton-cerf-en-conference</ref> | 'The unsung heroes of the Internet'<ref>http://expositions.mundaneum.org/fr/conferences/linventeur-de-linternet-vinton-cerf-en-conference</ref> | ||
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'The idea of the internet was born in Belgium. Idea No.1: The Mundaneum'<ref>Jim Boulton: 100 ideas that changed the web Laurence King Publishing, 2014</ref> | 'The idea of the internet was born in Belgium. Idea No.1: The Mundaneum'<ref>Jim Boulton: 100 ideas that changed the web Laurence King Publishing, 2014</ref> | ||
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"C’est « Le Monde » qui appelé le Mundaneum, « Google de papier », une expression qui a fait florès. (...) C’est dans la ville du doudou qu’on peut désormais revoir ce qui reste de cette grandiose utopie, d’avant l’ordinateur."<ref>Le Mundaneum, le Google de papier. La Libre Belgique, 06.08.15 http://www.lalibre.be/culture/arts/le-mundaneum-le-google-de-papier-55c36e8b35708aa437655a75</ref> | "C’est « Le Monde » qui appelé le Mundaneum, « Google de papier », une expression qui a fait florès. (...) C’est dans la ville du doudou qu’on peut désormais revoir ce qui reste de cette grandiose utopie, d’avant l’ordinateur."<ref>Le Mundaneum, le Google de papier. La Libre Belgique, 06.08.15 http://www.lalibre.be/culture/arts/le-mundaneum-le-google-de-papier-55c36e8b35708aa437655a75</ref> | ||
'Years later, Paul brought clarity and a future to the project through his vision for the Mundaneum: a universal system of written, visual, and audio information that people could access from the comfort of their own homes. The roots of that vision took hold just a few decades later when engineers planted the technological seeds that brought electronic information sharing to life.'<ref>http://www.google.com/doodles/mundaneum-co-founder-paul-otlets-147th-birthday</ref> | 'Years later, Paul brought clarity and a future to the project through his vision for the Mundaneum: a universal system of written, visual, and audio information that people could access from the comfort of their own homes. The roots of that vision took hold just a few decades later when engineers planted the technological seeds that brought electronic information sharing to life.'<ref>http://www.google.com/doodles/mundaneum-co-founder-paul-otlets-147th-birthday</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:38, 25 June 2016
1998
François Schuiten explains the reasoning behind his scenography for the resurrected Mundaneum, just before it's re-opening in 1998
2003
'Otlet imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an “electric telescope” connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen. In Otlet’s time, this notion of networked documents was still so novel that no one had a word to describe these relationships, until he invented one: “links.” Otlet envisioned the whole endeavor as a great “réseau”—web—of human knowledge.'[1]
2007
Screenshot of Bernard Otlet, from the documentary "Paul Otlet: le rêve et la norme" by Christine Masuy (6 Feb. 2007)."
Bernard Otlet (great-grandson): Paul Otlet, inventor of the internet [2]
2008
'Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: Otlet’s Visualizations of a Global Information Society and His Concept of a Universal Civilization'[3]
'Paul Otlet's visionary Mundaneum was a proto-internet made of 3-by-5-inch index cards'[4]
2009
Jean-Michel Djian, "Le Mundaneum, Google de papier" & "le Mundaneum, a posé les bases de la science documentaire – et préfigurait Internet avec un siècle d’avance."
Jean-Paul Deplus quoted in Jean-Michel Djian: "Ils ont inventé Google avant la lettre. Non seulement ils l’ont fait avec les seuls outils dont ils disposaient, c’est-à-dire de l’encre et du papier, mais leur imagination était si féconde que l’on a retrouvé les dessins et croquis de ce qui préfigure Internet un siècle plus tard."[5]
2010
'He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the communication of knowledge. His theoretical approach to the organi-zation and dissemination of information was far ahead of its time, notably in foreshadowing the Internet, Hypertext, and the World Wide Web.'[6]
2011
"Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Er plante ein mechanisches Gehirn und kabellose Kommunikation: Der belgische Bibliothekar Paul Otlet entwarf Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts die erste Suchmaschine der Welt - lange vor Computern und Internet. Warum gerieten seine revolutionären Ideen in Vergessenheit?"[7]
'Our view is that the creative ways in which he [Paul Otlet] faces tensions of scalability, representation, and perception of relationships between knowledge objects might be of interest today.'[8]
2012
Internet, a story from Belgium? Poster distributed by The Mundaneum archive center
Elio di Rupo and Sylvia Van Peteghem at the signing of the collaboration agreement between Google and Mundaneum, 2012
Jean-Paul Deplus, Elio di Rupo and Sylvia Van Peteghem sign the collaboration agreement between Google and Mundaneum, 2012
Leaflet published by the Mundaneum Archive Center, 2012
Paul Otlet, Visionnaire. Video shown at the signing of the collaboration between Mundaneum and Google
Screenshot - 24.07.2015
Screenshot - 24.07.2015oo
2013
Renaissance 2.0 Voyage aux origines du web
Bill Echikson: "Google has partnered with Mundaneum because we realized together that this was Google on paper a hundred years ago."
"In terms of references, Paul Otlet and La Fontaine, but mostly Otlet invented a classification system for the world information: the Universal Decimal Classification. You can see it as a search engine on paper. Later on, it will become the digital search engine."
Screenshot from "Google in Mons: European Capital of Culture 2015"
'The unsung heroes of the Internet'[9]
2014
From industrial heartland to Internet age round 2
From industrial heartland to the Internet age (screen-capture). Video published by The Mundaneum, 2014
To Google or not to Google, that's the question Sylvia Van P
'The idea of the internet was born in Belgium. Idea No.1: The Mundaneum'[10]
"L'homme qui a presque inventé le cyberespace : Paul Otlet"[11]
"Le père (belge) de l’idée du web"[12]
2015
Sketches for Google Doodle celebrating Otlet's 147th birthday
Flyer announcing a game published by the Mundaneum archive center: "Did you know the Internet was imagined in Belgium? Discover the history of Mundaneum in an amusing way"
New entrance to the Mundaneum in Mons insists on 'Google de Papier'
Mundaneum: Les archives de la connaissance (Les Impressions nouvelles, 2008). Promotional banderolle added in 2015 by the Mundaneum Archive Center
Screenshot 2015-08-23-00-15-27
Screenshot from 2015-08-23 07-42-07
Screenshot from 2015-08-23 07-43-58
"C’est « Le Monde » qui appelé le Mundaneum, « Google de papier », une expression qui a fait florès. (...) C’est dans la ville du doudou qu’on peut désormais revoir ce qui reste de cette grandiose utopie, d’avant l’ordinateur."[13]
'Years later, Paul brought clarity and a future to the project through his vision for the Mundaneum: a universal system of written, visual, and audio information that people could access from the comfort of their own homes. The roots of that vision took hold just a few decades later when engineers planted the technological seeds that brought electronic information sharing to life.'[14]
'Today’s decision underlines what people who use the service tell us: Google Books gives them a useful and easy way to find books they want to read and buy, while at the same time benefiting copyright holders,” said Gina Scigliano, a spokeswoman for Google. “We’re pleased the court has confirmed that the project is fair use, acting like a card catalog for the digital age.'[15]- ↑ Alex Wright: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet http://boxesandarrows.com/forgotten-forefather-paul-otlet
- ↑ "Paul Otlet: le rêve et la norme", 6 Feb. 2007: http://www.sonuma.be/archive/paul-otlet-le-r%C3%AAve-et-la-norme (min. 3:00)
- ↑ Van den Heuvel, C. Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web. Otlet’s visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization. In W.B. Rayward (Ed.), (2008) European Modernism and the Information Society (pp. 127–153). London: Ashgate.
- ↑ When the internet was made of paper. By: Collins, Paul, New Scientist, 02624079, 3/22/2008, Vol. 197, Issue 2648
- ↑ Jean-Michel Djian, "Le Mundaneum, Google de papier," Le Monde Magazine, 19 December 2009, p. 46-50.
- ↑ Rayward, Warden Boyd (who translated and adapted), Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge, Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
- ↑ Netzvisionär Paul Otlet: Googles genialer Urahn. Meike Laaf, Der Spiegel 20.07.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzvisionaer-paul-otlet-googles-genialer-urahn-a-768312.html
- ↑ Charles van den Heuvel, W. Boyd Rayward, Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration. Journal of the American society for information science and technology (2011)
- ↑ http://expositions.mundaneum.org/fr/conferences/linventeur-de-linternet-vinton-cerf-en-conference
- ↑ Jim Boulton: 100 ideas that changed the web Laurence King Publishing, 2014
- ↑ http://expositions.mundaneum.org/fr/conferences/lhomme-qui-presque-invente-le-cyberespace-paul-otlet
- ↑ http://expositions.mundaneum.org/fr/conferences/lhomme-qui-presque-invente-le-cyberespace-paul-otlet
- ↑ Le Mundaneum, le Google de papier. La Libre Belgique, 06.08.15 http://www.lalibre.be/culture/arts/le-mundaneum-le-google-de-papier-55c36e8b35708aa437655a75
- ↑ http://www.google.com/doodles/mundaneum-co-founder-paul-otlets-147th-birthday
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/google-wins-appeals-court-approval-of-book-scanning-project-iftpwxl3