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From Mondothèque
Maybe this timeline would need some explanation......
The timeline in Brussels is an attempt to situate some of the events related to the life death and revival of Mondotheque in a broader context with regards both to local events and international situation. This timeline attempts to fix events from several geographic locations at different scales, and hopefuly provokes cqrrelations in time and space, that could help us formulate questions about the ways all those local events take place and reformulate themself in a global context.
The large archive ofthe Mundaneum was though by Paul Otlet with support of Henry Lafontaine at a time when occidental colonialism was at its high and the first tensions where only starting to manifest themselves, while at the same time war was at the door of modern european societies. The general Mundaneum project was mainly motivated by a ambitious ideal of peace It is in between war that the communication systems associated to Mundaneum were conceived. Some of them were thoughtas prospective possibilities, such as Mondotheque, but others were already implemented and formed the basis of an international communication network, based on postal services and telegraph networks. Otlet and Lafontaine's Project took place in an era of international aggreements over communication networks, associative structures, that acted as networks of information-sharing organising modalities of exchange to the general benefit of civil society. It was also a time of the rise of international countries aggreements; some of these structures are still the basis of our actual globalised organisation, but they are all chalenged by private capitalist structures. How does this relates to the comparison between the Mundaneum and the actual knowledge economy.
| DATE | EVENT | SCALE |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | As the Mundaneum is closed by governmental decision, the archives are moved Rue Fetis 44, Brussels in the House of Paul Otlet | HOUSE |
| 1992 | Creation of the Internet Society - American association with international vocation . | NORMS |
| 1960's | "Les amis du palais mondial" organize different events to the memory of Paul Otlet | HOUSE |
| 1914 | "The palais mondial" sets up at Jubelpark, 11 Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels. Installation will be a little delayed due to the upcoming WWI. | CITY |
| 1920 | Foundation of the League of Nations at the Paris peace conference | WORLD |
| 1920 | Opening of the "Palais Mondial" | CITY |
| 1924 | "Foire du caoutchouc" at the Palais Mondial, some collections will be moved to leave space for the event. | CITY |
| 1941 | Some files from the Mundaneum collections that concerned international associations, are transferred to Germany because they are assumed to have propaganda value. | WORLD |
| 1934 | Publication of the book "Traité de documentation" | PUBLICATION |
| 1891 | Henri Lafontaine publishes an essay "Pour une bibliographie de la paix" | PUBLICATION |
| 1895 2-4 septembre | First Conférence of Bibliographie that decides the creation of "l'Institut International de Bibliographie" (IIB) | CITY |
| 1893 | Otlet and Lafontaine start together "l'Office International de Bibliologie Sociologique (OIBS)" | ASSOCIATIONS |
| 1910 May | Official Creation of IUA, "International union of associations" In 1914, it federates 230 organizations, a little more than half the existing ones. L'IUA promotes internationalist aspirations and desire for peace that will lead in 1920 to the creation of "Société des Nations". | ASSOCIATIONS |
| 1907 June | Otlet and Lafontaine organize a Central Office for International Associations that will become the "International Union of Associations" (IUA) at the first Congres mondial des associations internationales in Brussels in May 1910 | CITY |
| 1903 | Création of the international Women's suffrage alliance (IWSA) that will become the International Alliance of Women | ASSOCIATION |
| 1910 25-27 August | Le "Congrès International de Bibliographie et de Documentation" deals both with issues of international cooperation between non governmental organizations and the structure of universal documentation. | WORLD |
| 1911 | More than 600 people/institutions are listed as IIB members or refering to heir methods specifically UDC.. | WORLD |
| 1914 | Germany declares war to France and invades Belgium | WORLD |
| 1919 june 28 | Traité de Versailles | WORLD |
| 1924 | Creation, within l'IIB, of the Central Classification Commission focusing on the development of Universal Decimal Classification | NORMS |
| 1931 | IIB becomes l'International Institut of documentation (IID) and in 1938 is named International Fédération of documentation (IDF) | WORLD |
| 1939 sept 1st | Invasion of Poland by Germany beginning of WWII | WORLD |
| 1908 10-11 juillet | "Congrès bibliographique international" (Bruxelles) | CITY |
| 1900 | "Congrès bibliographique international" (Paris) | WORLD |
| 1913 | Henri Lafontaine is awarded the Nobel Price for Peace | WORLD |
| 1916 | Lafontaine publishes "The great solution: magnissima charta" while in exile in United States | PUBLICATION |
| 1882 | Triple Alliance renewed in 1902 | WORLD |
| 1904 | "Entente cordiale" between France and England over the colonies | WORLD |
| 1890's | first colonial wars (fachoda, boers...) | WORLD |
| 1889 | Henri Lafontaine creates la "Société Belge de l'arbitrage et de la paix" | COUNTRY |
| 1944 | Death of Paul Otlet. he is buried in Etterbeek cemetery | COUNTRY |
| 1993 | Elio Di Rupo organises the transportation of Otlet archives to 76 rue de Nimy, à Mons | COUNTRY |
| 1890 | Henri Lafontaine meets Paul Otlet | PERSONAL |
| 1894 | Henri Lafontaine is elected senator from Hainaut and later on senator from Liège-Brabant | COUNTRY |
| 1907 | Henri Lafontaine is elected president of "bureau international de la paix" that he previously contributed to organize | PERSONAL |
| 1891 | Entente franco-russe: preliminairy to the "triple entente" that will be signed in 1907 | WORLD |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian war | WORLD |
| 1905 | First Morroccan Crisis | WORLD |
| 1874 | Creation of General Postal Union, by ONU [[1]] aiming at federating international postal distribution | NORMS |
| 1875 | General Conference on Weights and Measures | NORMS |
| 1865 | International Union of telegraph-future International telecomunication union (UTI) | NORMS |
| 1947 | INTERNATIONAL Telecomunication Union(UTI) is attached to UN | NORMS |
| 1963 | ASCII is developed | NORMS |
| 1966 | ARPANET project initiated | ASSOCIATION |
| 1974 | Telenet the first public version of the Internet is founded. | WORLD |
| 2012 | Failure of WCIT to reach an international agreement on Internet regulation. | NORMS |
Links: some timelines: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/la-premiere-guerre-mondiale
What links here
| Person | Paul Otlet +, Henri Lafontaine + and Elio Di Rupo + |
| Place | Rue Fetis 44, Brussels +, Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, Brussels +, Cimetière d'Ixelles + and 76 Rue de Nimy, Mons + |
| Date "Date" is a type and predefined property provided by Semantic MediaWiki to represent date values. | 1934 +, 1992 +, 1960 +, 1914 +, 1920 +, 1924 +, 1941 +, 1891 +, 1895 +, 1893 +, 1910 +, 1907 +, 1903 +, 1911 +, 1919 +, 1931 +, 1938 +, 1939 +, 1908 +, 1900 +, 1913 +, 1916 +, 1882 +, 1902 +, 1904 +, 1890 +, 1889 +, 1944 +, 1993 +, 1894 +, 1870 +, 1905 +, 1874 +, 1875 +, 1865 +, 1947 +, 1963 +, 1966 +, 1974 + and 2012 + |