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
In the late 19th century, two Belgian visionaries, and Henri La Fontaine , looked at the world’s exploding volume of information and saw a looming "Pit of Despair"—a future where human knowledge would be lost simply because it couldn't be found.
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Universal Decimal Classification May 2026
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
In the late 19th century, two Belgian visionaries, and Henri La Fontaine , looked at the world’s exploding volume of information and saw a looming "Pit of Despair"—a future where human knowledge would be lost simply because it couldn't be found. To make this work, they needed a classification
Able to cover every field of knowledge, from Philosophy to Engineering. To make this work