A free documentary about Paul Otlet, narrated by W. Boyd Rayward, his biographer.

Kevin Kelly's notes on _The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World_, a French documentary on Paul Otlet.

NYT article on Paul Otlet, with an excellent graphic explaining the Mundaneum system, and a video excerpt from the documentary on him.

Michael Buckland's notes on Paul Otlet, with links to other Otlet resources.

"Paul Otlet (portrait) was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1868. His monumental book Traité de documentation. (Brussels, 1934) was both central and symbolic in the development of information science - then called 'Documentation' - in the first half of this century. In addition, it reminds us of something that has been too widely forgotten: That this field did have a lively existence in the early decades of this century and a sophistication concerning theory and information technology that now commonly surprises people."