Wilhelm Ostwald's activities to improve scholarly information ...

Conclusion

• Ostwald as

  • a predecessor of information science and knowledge management ?

  • a link in the chain of the thinking about visual information systems ?

• The Bridge as the "discursive predecessor of the Internet" ?

• Ostwald's activities are mostly embedded in the cultural and social thinking of its time

• Ostwald can be seen as a member of the bibliographic movement of the past century

URL with these slides: http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/hapke/ostwald/leipzig.htm

Thomas Hapke