his book traité de documentation has some fun figures. also apparently he made his desk into a wheel so he could literally rotate between projects (hidden underneath piles of paper here; he clearly had too many tabs open).pic.twitter.com/Gw7mL1w6Ft
Wikipedia, version 0: Paul Otlet's Universal Bibliographic Repertory (later, Mundaneum)pic.twitter.com/ybY4JgOw9v
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The tyranny of the tab! It seems like a perennially rediscovered anti-pattern.
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From their search logs: Philosophie des mathematiques. Les pecheriesau Maroc et sur la cote dEspagne. Finances Bulgares.Gyroscope. Culte de feu. Motocolture (garden). Evolution de la dent humaine. Emigration italienne. Casier civil. Chemin defer de bagdad (railroad...). ...
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Planete Mars. Suffrage universel.Nevrose traumatique. Eugenism. Le saumon; Saumonsmanques et repeches. Boomerang. Fabrication del lacyanamide. Emigration des Juifs. Intoxications par le tabac.Quantite dhuile dolive importee en Belgique.
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Beautiful “discovery”. Thanks for sharing.
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