The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World
2002•1h 0m•7.3•Released
Documentary
Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.
Director
Françoise Levie
Writer
Françoise Levie, Benoît Peeters
Cast
Michel Guillou
Manuela Servais
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