Frits Donker Duyvis

Frits Donker Duyvis was born in 1894 in the Netherlands and died in 1961. He trained as an engineer, worked as a patent examiner, and became influential expert in documentation, administrative efficiency, and standards development.

Works

Donker Duyvis was particularly important for his role in the development of the International Institute for Bibliography founded by Paul Otlet and Henri LaFontaine in 1895 in Brussels: its transformation into an international, federated organization, the transfer of its headquarters from Brussels in Belgium, to The Hague in the Netherlands; successive name changes to International Institute for Documentation in 1931, then International Federation for Documentation in 1938; and his taking administrative control away from Paul Otlet.

Donker Duyvis was active in the Nederlandsch Instituut voor Documentatie en Registratuur (NIDER. Netherlands Institute for Documentation and Filing).

Publications

For a listing see F. Donker Duyvis. "Bibliographie des travaux de F. Donker Duyvis relatifs à documentation." Revue de la documentation 21, no. 1 (1954): 13-15. Part of a special issue on Donker Duyvis.

• "Internation Federation for Documentation," Journal of Documentary Reproduction 3 (September 1940): 176-90.
• "Standardisation as a tool of scientific management." Library Trends (Jan 1954): 410-427.

Further reading

• F. Donker Duyvis: His life and work NIDER Publication 2, no 45. (1964). The Hague, The Netherlands: NIDER.
• "Frits Donker Duyvis," Aslib Proceedings</> 13, no. 8,(August 1961): 195-196. Obituary. {https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049820]