Paul Otlet (1868-1944) was a Belgian author, visionary, lawyer and peace activist. He is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he 'called documentation.' In 1907, Otlet and Henri La Fontaine created a great international center called at first Palais Mondial (World Palace), later, the Mundaneum.
The Mundaneum aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification. Here's a look inside the Mundaneum.
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