A keyword is a finding aid used to record one subject term, key phrase, abbreviation, indexing word, taxonomic structure, or other expression that is associated with the whole structure (such as an book or book part). Keywords can be used for identification, searching, and indexing purposes. A keyword element (<kwd>) may contain a repetition of words found in the structure or it may contain broader terms, narrower terms, related terms, or taxonomic identifiers used to find the structure in a search or provide semantic classification of the text by mapping a specific structure to a taxonomy.
Keywords are contained in <kwd-group>s. There may be several <kwd-group>s, each of which can be identified separately by language, vocabulary, or taxonomy source. None of the individual keyword elements (<kwd>, <compound-kwd>, <nested-kwd>) take the @xml:lang attribute; that is reserved for the <kwd-group>. This means that keywords must be sorted by language and entered in language groups.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <kwd>, see Keywords.
<!ELEMENT kwd (#PCDATA %kwd-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x | break)*
Any combination of:
An author’s list of keywords for a document:
... <book-meta> ... <permissions> <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2000, The National Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>2000</copyright-year> </permissions> <abstract><p>We describe a method for cloning nucleic acid molecules onto the surfaces of 5-μm microbeads rather than in biological hosts. A unique tag sequence is attached to each molecule, and the tagged library is amplified. Unique tagging of the molecules is achieved by sampling a small fraction (1%) of a very large repertoire of tag sequences. ...</p> </abstract> <kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"> <kwd>DNA analysis</kwd> <kwd>gene expression</kwd> <kwd>parallel cloning</kwd> <kwd>fluid microarray</kwd> </kwd-group> ... </book-meta> ...
Multiple keyword groups for a document, including those created by Inspec:
... <book-part-meta> ... <kwd-group kwd-group-type="Inspec"> <kwd>diversity reception</kwd> <kwd>Doppler radar</kwd> <kwd>Doppler shift</kwd> <kwd>encoding</kwd> <kwd>optimisation</kwd> <kwd>orthogonal codes</kwd> <kwd>radar signal processing</kwd> <kwd>MIMO radar</kwd> </kwd-group> <kwd-group kwd-group-type="uncontrolled"> <kwd>polyphase codes optimisation</kwd> <kwd>multiinput-multioutput radars</kwd> <kwd>radar performance</kwd> <kwd>diversity technique</kwd> <kwd>MIMO radar transmission</kwd> <kwd>diversity performance</kwd> <kwd>orthogonal codes</kwd> <kwd>Doppler sensitive</kwd> <kwd>side-lobes level</kwd> <kwd>adaptive clonal selection algorithm</kwd> <kwd>polyphase coded orthogonal signals</kwd> <kwd>aperiodic autocorrelation side lobe</kwd> <kwd>Doppler shift tolerance</kwd> <kwd>sustainable Doppler shifts</kwd> <kwd>Doppler tolerance performances</kwd> </kwd-group> <kwd-group kwd-group-type="Inspec-class"> <compound-kwd> <compound-kwd-part content-type="code">B0260</compound-kwd-part> <compound-kwd-part content-type="text">Optimisation techniques</compound-kwd-part> </compound-kwd> <compound-kwd> <compound-kwd-part content-type="code">B6140</compound-kwd-part> <compound-kwd-part content-type="text">Signal processing and detection</compound-kwd-part> </compound-kwd> <compound-kwd> <compound-kwd-part content-type="code">B6320</compound-kwd-part> <compound-kwd-part content-type="text">Radar equipment, systems and applications</compound-kwd-part> </compound-kwd> </kwd-group> </book-part-meta> ...
Multiple keyword groups for a document (in Japanese):
... <book-meta> ... <kwd-group xml:lang="en"> <kwd>heated air</kwd> </kwd-group> <kwd-group xml:lang="ja"> <kwd>加温空気</kwd> </kwd-group> ... </book-meta> ...
App Navigation Information:
... <sec> <sec-meta> <kwd-group specific-use="mobile-nav"> <nested-kwd> <kwd>dosing</kwd> <nested-kwd> <kwd>geriatric</kwd> <nested-kwd> <kwd>Digoxin</kwd> </nested-kwd> </nested-kwd> </nested-kwd> </kwd-group> <kwd-group specific-use="mobile-nav"> <nested-kwd> <kwd>Digoxin</kwd> <nested-kwd> <kwd>dosing</kwd> <nested-kwd> <kwd>geriatric</kwd> </nested-kwd> </nested-kwd> </nested-kwd> </kwd-group> </sec-meta> <title>Dosing Table, Geriatric</title> ... </sec> ...