The International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) was an international organization that was created to promote universal access to all recorded knowledge through the creation of an international classification system. FID stands for the original French Fédération internationale de documentation. Historical Background of FID FID was established on 12 September 1895, in Brussels, as the International Institute of Bibliography (originally Institut International de Bibliographie, or IIB) by two Belgian lawyers, Paul Otlet (1868–1944) and Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943). It was popularly known as the Brussels Institute. Its headquarters was changed to The Hague after 1934. It had gone through a number of changes in name that reflect changes of conceptualization of the field in which it operates. The changes in names and years are : 1931 – The International Institute for Documentation (Institut International de Documentation, IID) 1937 – The International Federation for Documentation (Fédération Internationale de Documentation, FID) 1988 – The International Federation for Information and Documentation (Fédération Internationale d'Information et de Documentation, FID) The Institute was one of the sponsors of the first World Congress of Universal Documentation, held in Paris in 1937. FID was dissolved in 2002. Publications One of the publications of FID was FID Communications. References W. Boyd Rayward Michael Buckland Keenan, S. (2003). FID (Federation Internationale de Documentation). In International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science. 2nd ed. Ed. by John Feather & Paul Sturges. , London: Routledge (pp. 196–198) Organizations established in 1895 Organizations disestablished in 2002 Non-profit organisations based in Belgium History organisations based in the Netherlands Organisations based in The Hague Archivist associations 1895 establishments in Belgium