Ted Knight — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:38:19 GMT

Thanks for the article. I was surprised to learn of Otlet from a less-than-computer-involved friend. Astonished and pleased to learn of Otlet and his work, I made a set of links at my DMOZ bookmarks, here: http://www.dmoz.org/Bookmarks/T/tedk1/Ontology/Otlet,_Pau…
The parent category, “Ontology,” includes a number of other links that may be of interest as well. In particular, I recommend the 2007 David Weinberger book, Everthing Is Miscellanous. One of his core concepts is “the third order of order,” which I can relate to the way Otlet saw that the concepts in books can relate to each other, a kind of foreshadowing of meta-tagging. I came to this book from correspondence with Clay Shirky, whose web page entitled “Ontology Is Overrated” I would also recommend highly.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Ted Knight