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The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002)

The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002)

Documentary
Release Date: 2002, January 1
Directors: Françoise Levie
Countries: Belgium

Overview:

Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.