Interesting article this week in the Science section of NYT on Paul Otlet in the context of modern web design. There is even a video clip from the documentary “The man who wanted to classify the world”. The tone suggests Otlet is forgotten — maybe by CS types, but he was considered foundational to the HCI folks studying hypertext and to generations of LIS faculty interested in organization of materials. The dreams of a better knowledge world are not new and it would be churlish to complain when a leading newspaper actually take the time to learn this before committing another ‘Web-story’ to print. So I won’t!
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information
Newspapers should be most up to-date because we are looking for them to provide a new dish . They should be more careful and attentive over web article and should go deep into the matter.