The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World

Year: 2002

Runtime: 60 mins

Language: English

Director: Françoise Levie

Documentary

Born in 1868, Belgian Paul Otlet spent his life refining the Dewey Classification into the Universal Decimal Classification. By the time of his death in 1944 he had compiled an astonishing 17 million index cards, representing a vast portion of human knowledge.

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