Documentary · Belgium · 2002 · 1h 0m

The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World

L'homme qui voulait classer le monde

Synopsis

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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