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Interrogating spatial analogies relating to knowledge organization: Paul Otlet and others

Buckland, Michael K.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/89737

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Title
Interrogating spatial analogies relating to knowledge organization: Paul Otlet and others
Author(s)
Buckland, Michael K.
Issue Date
2012
Keyword(s)
  • Information and Space
  • Spatial Analogies
  • Paul Otlet
Abstract
The author provides an examination of how ideas about place and space have been used in thinking about the organization of knowledge. The spatial analogies of Paul Otlet (1868–1944) in relation to his overall vision are traditional and conventional. Notions of space, place, position, location, and movement are frequent in the work of other leading innovators (Martin Schrettinger, Melvil Dewey, Wilhelm Ostwald, Emanuel Goldberg, and Suzanne Briet) concerning specific practical aspects of knowledge organization. Otlet’s spatial imagery is more original and more ingenious when applied to technical problems compared to his overall vision.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89737
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0039
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Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 61 (2) Fall 2012: Information and Space: Analogies and Metaphors PRIMARY
Library Trends 61 (2) Fall 2012: Information and Space: Analogies and Metaphors. Edited by Wouter Van Acker and Pieter Uyttenhove