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Alex Wright on Informatica

The Informed Life

CHAPTER

The Role of Networks in Information Management

I learned about Othlet through your work. I had heard about Bush in lots of places. But it does feel like Othlet was a predecessor there, and Bush's work is widely acknowledged as a predecessor. One of the things that this points to is something that strikes me as foundational to the book: A distinction between networks and hierarchies.

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