Traité de Documentation

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Traité de Documentation: le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique is a landmark book by Belgian author Paul Otlet, first published in 1934. It helped shape the field of information science and included ideas that later appeared with the World Wide Web and search engines. In the book Otlet described a wheel-shaped desk with different project spaces that could be turned and switched as needed—an early picture of today’s desktops and browser tabs. He was inspired by new media like radio, phonographs, cinema, and television, and he believed many inventions were still to come, such as reading and annotating remote documents and computer speech.