From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Organization of Information / Taxonomy Outline

Knowledge as Power: The Earliest Systematically Collected Library as Distinct from an Archive
(668 BCE – 627 BCE)

The Earliest Surviving Monolingual Dictionary
(Circa 250 BCE)

The First Auto-Bibliography
(Circa 190 CE)

One of the Earliest, Most Widely-Used Cross-Indexing Systems
(Circa 280 CE – 340 CE)

Thedoric Executes the Philosopher Boethius: Beginning of the Middle Ages
(524 – 525)

Some of the Earliest Library Catalogs
(Circa 800)

Medieval Natural History Bestseller
(825 – 850)

Inventories of Ninth Century Libraries
(833 – 835)

The First Byzantine Encylopedia
(Circa 850)

The Oldest Western Medical Document after the Hippocratic Writings
(Circa 850)

Massive Byzantine Encyclopedic Dictionary
(Circa 950)

The Earliest Universal Bibliography
(988 – 990)

Medieval Encyclopedia, of which the Autograph Manuscript Survived
(Circa 1090 – 1125)

The Emergence of Concordances and Subject Indexes
(Circa 1190 – 1290)

The First Alphabetical Subject Indexes
(Circa 1250)

The Arrangement and Cataloguing of Books
(Circa 1270)

Foundation of the Library of the Sorbonne, and "Perhaps the Earliest Specific and Organized System of Book Arrangement in a Library"
(1271)

Probably the Largest Medieval Library in Europe
(1289)

Organization of the Sorbonne Library, and the Way it Was Physically Arranged
(1290)

The Second Catalogue of the Library of the Sorbonne
(1338)

The High Point of Medieval Library Cataloguing
(1389)

An Encyclopedia in 11,095 Volumes
(1403 – 1408)

One of the Earliest Surviving Italian Manuscripts on Technology and War Machines
(Circa 1420)

The First Printed Encyclopedia
(1467)

The First Map Included in a Printed Book
(November 19, 1472)

The Earliest Subject Bibliography
(1494)

The First English Book Printed on Paper Made in England
(1495 – 1496)

Collecting Books and Prints in the Early Sixteenth Century
(Circa 1510 – 1539)

The First Universal Bibliography Since the Invention of Printing
(1545 – 1555)

The First General Subject Index
(1548 – 1549)

The First Bio-Bibliography
(1562)

The First Catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair
(1564)

The First French National Bibliography
(1584)

The First Systematic Medical Bibliography
(1590)

The First Medical Subject Bibliography
(1591)

The First "Books in Print"
(1595)

Model for Subject Bibliographies
(1598)

Plant Classification Based upon General Morphology
(1623)

At Attempt to Record All Human Knowledge in Visual Form
(Circa 1625 – 1665)

One of the Most Significant Private Libraries Preserved Intact from Seventeenth Century England, in its Original Bookcases
(Circa 1650 – 1703)

The First Published Illustrated Catalogue of an Art Collection
(1660)

The Earliest Bibliography of Bibliographies
(1664)

The First Book on Print Collecting
(1666)

A Universal Language Based on a Classification Scheme or Ontology
(1668)

The First Attempt to Collect and Organize the Literature of Early Printing
(1688)

A Universal Bibliography but Only for "A and B"
(1699)

Systema Naturae
(1735)

The Central Enterprise of the French Enlightenment
(1751 – 1780)

Binomial Nomenclature for Plants
(1753)

Diderot on Information Overload
(1755)

Binomial Nomenclature for Animals
(1758)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Begins
(December 1768 – 1771)

Probably the Most Ambitious Editorial Enterprise before the Wikipedia
(1773 – 1782)

Prospectus for a Monumental European Encyclopedia
(1782)

166.5 Volumes of Text but No Comprehensive Index!
(1782 – 1832)

First Catalogue of the British Museum Library
(1787)

The First National Code of Descriptive Cataloging--Early Use of Cards in Cataloging Books
(Circa 1791)

The First Extensive Catalogue of the Library of Congress
(November 1815)

Early Proposal for a National Union Catalogue
(1852)

Roget's Thesaurus
(April 29, 1852)

The Kochel-Verzeichnis
(1862)

The Largest Dictionary in Book Form
(1863)

Dewey Decimal Classification
(1876)

Standardization of Library Catalogue Cards
(1877)

The First Extensively Used Scientific Method of Criminal Identification
(1879)

A Landmark in Efforts to Organize Information and Make it Searchable
(1880)

3,500,000 Quotations on Individual Slips of Paper
(1882)

The Library of the Future
(1883)

The Most Widely Used Library Classification System
(1885)

Finger Prints as a Means of Identification
(1892)

An Analog Search Engine
(1895)

The Library of Congress Classification
(1897)

The Cumulative Book Index
(February 1898)

The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
(1901)

LC Cards
(1901)

"Die Brucke" and its Goals for a World Information Clearing House
(1911)

Dewey Classification Numbers on Catalogue Cards
(1930)

H. G. Wells and the "World Brain"
(1938)

The Bettmann Archive; the Beginning of the Visual Age
(1938)

The Library of Congress Catalogue
(1942 – 1953)

"As We May Think"
(July 1945)

The Illustrated Version of "As We May Think"
(September 1945)

The Origins of Humanities Computing
(1949)

Schmieder's Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
(1950)

Probably the First Widely-Accepted Controlled Vocabulary
(1954)

Machine Methods for Information Searching
(1955)

The Foundation of Citation Analysis
(July 15, 1955)

The Most Voluminous Printed Catalogue of a Single Library
(1959 – 1972)

First Computerized Encyclopedia
(1964)

Science Citation Index
(1964)

The MARC Cataloguing Standard
(1965 – 1968)

The First Hypertext Editing System
(1967)

Probably the Largest Printed Bibliography, Complete in 754 Folio Volumes
(1968 – 1981)

Generalized Markup Language is Introduced
(Circa 1969)

SGML is Invented
(1974)

756 Folio Volumes, Obsolete within 25 Years
(April 21 – June 6, 1981)

Keyboarding over 350,000,000 Characters
(1983)

The First "Killer App" for the PC
(January 1983)

WordNet
(1985)

SGML Standard is Accepted
(October 1986)

The First Digital Image Database of Cultural Materials
(1987)

OCLC Acquires Publisher of the Dewey Classification System
(1988)

The Electronic Dewey
(1993)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

The Last Printed Edition of Beilstein is Published
(1998)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

PageRank is Published on Paper
(January 29, 1998)

The Bibliometrics of Science
(February 14, 1998)

Google is Founded
(September 7, 1998)

Predecessor of the Wikipedia
(March 9, 2000 – September 2003)

OED Online
(March 14, 2000)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

Regulations.gov is Launched
(January 2003)

OCLC Serves More than 50,000 Libraries, Contains 56 Million Records
(2004)

Flickr
(February 2004)

The Index-Catalogue Goes Online
(May 1, 2004)

The Google Print Project
(October 2004)

Kosmix.com
(2005)

The Century of Science Initiative
(January 2005)

Proposal for a World Digital Library
(June 6, 2005)

LibraryThing is Founded
(August 29, 2005)

1,500 New Articles are Added to the Wikipedia Monthly
(October 2005)

3,700,000 Articles in 200 Languages
(December 2005)

Google Books
(December 2005)

Nearly as Accurate as Brittanica
(December 14, 2005)

The Changing Nature of the Catalogue. . . .
(March 17, 2006)

1,543,119 Articles in English
(December 21, 2006)

The English Language Wikipedia Contains More than 2,000,000 Articles
(September 2007)

Encyclopedia Will Include Wiki-Style Collaboration
(June 2008)

Old Wine in New Bottles?
(October 24, 2008)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

Three Billion Images
(November 2008)

The Wikipedia Attracts 684,000,000 Visitors Yearly
(December 28, 2008)

Higher Resolution Map of Knowledge Than Can be Produced from Citation Analysis
(March 11, 2009)

Wolfram/Alpha
(May 16, 2009)

The First Historical Thesaurus
(October 2009)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
(October 3, 2009)

" A Library to Last Forever" ??
(October 9, 2009)

Bing Will Encorporate Wolfram Alpha Search Information
(November 12, 2009)