Boxes and Arrows: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet
Boxes and Arrows: Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet"While it would be an exaggeration to claim that Otlet exerted a direct influence on the later development of the Web, it would be no exaggeration to say that he anticipated many of the problems we find ourselves grappling with: the explosion of published information, the limitations of current delivery and storage mechanisms, the desperate need for a classificatory framework to help us store, manage and interpret humanity's collective intellectual capital—and, perhaps, the limits of self-organizing systems."
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