A summary of the content of a text as continuous prose. contents A table of contents, specifying the structure of a work and listing its constituents. e elementshould be used to mark its structure. frontispiece A pictorial frontispiece, possibly including some text. e following extended example demonstrates howvarious parts of the frontmatter of a textmay be encoded.e front pa...

Despite the trend toward distributed information sources, future digital libraries may hold as much text in electronic form as current libraries do in print. Accessing such collections by content rather than by metadata will require search-engine technology to accommodate at least a hundred-fold growth in data size. Recent developments within the ACSys Cooperative Research Centre are described,...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much information is stored as free text rather than in a coded form. For example, in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), causes of death and test results are sometimes recorded only in free text. Free text can be difficult to use for research if it requires time-consuming manual review. Our aim was to de...

Electronic appendices are refereed with the text; however, no attempt is made to impose a uniform editorial style on the electronic appendices.

Electronic appendices are refereed with the text; however, no attempt is made to impose a uniform editorial style on the electronic appendices.