Between 1995 and 2000 Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus published in twelve volumes the Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopddie, which comprises about 56,000 biographical entries pertaining to all walks of life, the arts and sciences. Drawing upon this work, the present two-volume set, edited by the Liibeck medical historian Dietrich von Engelhardt, includes about 4,600 short biographies of German-...

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. a l B e r t d o r f m a n 1916—1982 A Biographical Memoir by n a n c y B. s c H W a r t z a n d l e o n a r d r o d È n Biographical Memoir Copyright 1997 NatioNal aCademies press washiNgtoN d.C.

Recent policy statements have stressed the need for fundamental changes to the NHS, especially to the hospital care of older people. Person-centred care underpins such changes. If practitioners are to deliver person-centred care, then they need to learn more about the patient as an individual. One way that this might be achieved is through biographical approaches. This paper describes the findi...

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Biographical summarisation can provide succinct and meaningful answers to the question “Who is X?”. Current supervised summarisation approaches extract sentences from documents using features from textual context. In this paper, we explore a novel approach to biographical summarisation, by extracting important sentences from an entity’s Wikipedia page based on internet traffic to the page over ...

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. 1897—1985 A Biographical Memoir by h. a. B a r k e r a n d r o B e r t e. h u n g a t e Biographical Memoir Copyright 1990 national aCademy of sCienCes washington d.C.

The article discusses the concept of biographical learning and reviews previous research on the subject. Several tensions between different versions of the concept are recognized, and a wide range of research areas in which the concept has been used are identified and presented. The general idea in the biographical learning tradition regarding the occurrence of general conceptions of one’s biog...

The Biographical Portal aims to collect, organize, and make available all biographical Information that is available about Dutch people. In this paper, we describe the design process, the choices we made, the tools we used that may useful for a larger audience, and “lessons learned”: things that we feel we have done well, and things we would have done differently if we had known from the start ...