. "Reactive Engine, NLS and Sketchpad"@en . "---"@en . . . "Legacy \"trunk\""@en . "Trait\u00E9 de documentation was written by Paul Otlet in 1934. It coincided almost exactly at the same time with the closure of the Mundaneum. Trait\u00E9 is a manifesto crystallizing 40 years\u2019 worth of writing and research into the possibilities of networked information structures. Otlet biographer Boyd Rayward describes the Trait\u00E9 as \u201Dperhaps the first systematic, modern discussion of general problems of organising information.\u201D Using the UDC as a backdrop, the Trait\u00E9 posited a universal \u201Claw of organization\u201D declaring that no document could be properly understood by itself, but that its meaning becomes clarified through its influence on other documents, and vice versa. \u201C[A]ll bibliological creation,\u201D he said, \u201Cno matter how original and how powerful, implies redistribution, combination and new amalgamations.\u201D While that sentiment may sound postmodernist in spirit, Otlet was no semiotician; rather, he simply believed that documents could best be understood as three-dimensional, with the third dimension being their social context: their relationship to place, time, language, other readers, writers and topics. Otlet believed in the possibility of empirical truth, or what he called \u201Cfacticity\u201D\u2014a property that emerged over time, through the ongoing collaboration between readers and writers. In Otlet\u2019s world, each user would leave an imprint, a trail, which would then become part of the explicit history of each document. Otlet\u2019s vision suggests an intellectual cosmos illuminated both by objective classification and by the direct influence of readers and writers: a system simultaneously ordered and self-organizing, and endlessly re-configurable by the individual reader or writer."@en . "RIA Branch"@en . . "---"@en . . "Trait\u00E9 de documentation was written by Paul Otlet in 1934. It coincided almost exactly at the same time with the closure of the Mundaneum. Trait\u00E9 is a manifesto crystallizing 40 years\u2019 worth of writing and research into the possibilities of networked information structures. Otlet biographer Boyd Rayward describes the Trait\u00E9 as \u201Dperhaps the first systematic, modern discussion of general problems of organising information.\u201D"@en . "The Traite"@en . . . .