I think that Paul Otlet may be your man for that sort of thing. He was obsessed with how to organize and catalog not only things, but knowledge and information.

I think that Paul Otlet may be your man for that sort of thing. He was obsessed with how to organize and catalog not only things, but knowledge and information. Interesting guy, and ahead of his time. It's too bad that his work (along with the rest of the world) was mostly dropped on the floor in the chaos of WWI and II. There's a book about him called, "Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet