ABSTRACT
Bemers-Lee considers the World Wide Web to be primarily a technological development. This development is based on the idea that by connecting computers link all the knowledge of the world in one space. The role of architecture in organizing knowledge can perhaps best explained by Otlet's concept of a Mundaneum. On the one hand the Mundaneum was a project for a real building in which would be combined a World Library. Otlet's plea in his Traité de documentation, for a modernization of the book that will be comparable to the modernization of architecture, can be seen in this light. Fundamental to the creation of the new form of the book that Otlet foresees is what he calls the Monographic Principle. The Monographic Principle, the application of which requires splitting and recombining parts of documents in a standardized way leads to new combinations of ideas that constitute new information.
