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.
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).
The changes in names and years are : The Institute was one of the sponsors of the first World Congress of Universal Documentation, held in Paris in 1937.
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