Michael Buckland's Wilhelm Ostwald Page
january 2012 by rybesh
Michael Buckland's notes on Wilhelm Ostwald.
"Ostwald discussed problems of information management with Paul Otlet, co-founder of the International Institute for Bibliography in Brussels, in 1910. He used most of his Nobel Prize money to finance a similar organization, Die Bruecke ('The Bridge'), an 'international institute for the organizing of intellectual work,' which he founded in Munich with Karl Wilhelm Buehrer and Adolf Saager in June 1911. The manifesto of the The Bridge, entitled, the 'The Organizing of Intellectual Work' was published in German and in Esperanto ('everybody's second language') in 1911."
"They advocated 'the monographic principle' (hypertext), technical standards, the use of the Universal Decimal Classification, and the idea of a World Brain. The Bridge ended in 1913 after publishing numerous pamphlets. Ostwald died in 1932. One lasting legacy of his work is the international standard for paper sizes (A4 etc.)."
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"Ostwald discussed problems of information management with Paul Otlet, co-founder of the International Institute for Bibliography in Brussels, in 1910. He used most of his Nobel Prize money to finance a similar organization, Die Bruecke ('The Bridge'), an 'international institute for the organizing of intellectual work,' which he founded in Munich with Karl Wilhelm Buehrer and Adolf Saager in June 1911. The manifesto of the The Bridge, entitled, the 'The Organizing of Intellectual Work' was published in German and in Esperanto ('everybody's second language') in 1911."
"They advocated 'the monographic principle' (hypertext), technical standards, the use of the Universal Decimal Classification, and the idea of a World Brain. The Bridge ended in 1913 after publishing numerous pamphlets. Ostwald died in 1932. One lasting legacy of his work is the international standard for paper sizes (A4 etc.)."
january 2012 by rybesh