''Traité de documentation: le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique'' is a landmark book by Belgian author

Paul Otlet Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (; ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and peace activist; predicting the arrival of the internet before World War II, he is among those considered to be the father of infor ...

, first published in 1934. Traite de Documentation

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The book is considered a landmark in the history of

information science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, Categorization, classification, manipulation, storage, information retrieval, retrieval, movement, dissemin ...

, with concepts predicting the rise of the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

and

search engines A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

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Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Management''Traité de documentation'' : le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique
at Google Books
“The Web That Wasn’t” and “Augmenting Human Intellect”
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