Experimental Jetset Online Archive Lost Formats Links News About this site Contact	Start: The Rem Koolhaas / OMA Collection at the NAI, page 4 of 5				03. These were the index cards that had to be used in combination with the database, in order to search the archive. It's basically a cardboard sheet, measuring 250 x 150 mm. The sheet was perforated in such a way that it could be used as four index cards, each one measuring 125 x 75 mm. The sheet was double-sided: one side was printed with English text, the other side was printed in Dutch. For the size of the index cards we were really inspired by a TV documentary we saw around that time, about Paul Otlet (1868-1944), utopian scientist and pioneer of information management. Otlet was the one who developed the library card standard size (125 x 75 mm), so the fact that we designed our index cards in the same size was in a way a hidden homage to this remarkable figure.
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