Universal Decimal Classification Instant

To make this work, they needed a classification system that was:

Their quest to catalog every piece of human thought led to the creation of the , a system built on the bones of the Dewey Decimal Classification but designed for far more than just books. The Vision: The Mundaneum universal decimal classification

Able to cover every field of knowledge, from Philosophy to Engineering. To make this work, they needed a classification

Otlet and La Fontaine didn't just want a library; they wanted a "city of knowledge". In 1895, they founded the Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium—a pre-digital precursor to Google. To make this work

Using numbers that any person, regardless of language, could understand.