The registry of the German Network for Systemic Scleroderma: frequency of disease subsets and patterns of organ involvement

Objective. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare, heterogeneous disease, which affects different organs and therefore requires interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic management. To improve the detection and follow-up of patients presenting with different disease manifestations, an interdisciplinary registry was founded with contributions from different subspecialties involved in the care of patients with SSc

Knowledge-based Editing and Visualization for Hypermedia Encyclopedias

ation, we use the Dictionary of Art which is to be published this year by Macmillan Publishers Ltd., U.K., as a 34-volume print edition. More than 6,000 authors and 50 editors have been involved in its conventional publication process for over 15 years. Our research focuses on providing support for the complex and demanding editorial work and on the presentation of hypermedia publications (see Figure 1). Like digital library applications, the Dictionary of Art poses problems of large amounts of information and thus of individual access involving the selection and combination of information which is put together by users demands. As is true for all electronic publication products, there is the additional challenge to meet the quality standards of traditional publishing, in particular of design and layout when presenting the information on the screen. Our approach for meeting these requirements is based on the three concepts which also reflect the overall process. First,

Towards Constructive Text, Diagram, and Layout Generation for Information Presentation

Page Specification We begin by setting up some closely related presentation plans. Our examples revolve around possible answers to questions art historians typically ask in discussing the spread of art movements: for example, How did the Bauhaus spread to the United States? The interaction style supported by the Editor's Workbench--and hence by its further incarnation as DArtbi0--is described in Kamps et al. (1996); users explore the database progressively by following proposed links. Asking for information about the Bauhaus retrieves, amongst other objects, the set of all artists classified as Bauhaus artists. The Workbench also includes preset question types for distinct types of object; these question types were established through consultation with editors expert in the domain. One such question for the object type art movement is spread of influence. The domain knowledge representation for art history includes a range of conditions that are known to contribute to a spread of influence: for example, artists moving to the country being influenced. Following the link spread of influence and cross-classifying this against a country, such as U.S.A., then restricts the former set of Bauhaus artists down to those that are known to the system to have moved to the U.S. This information then needs to be presented to the user