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diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml
index 189c4bc..03401df 100644
--- a/doc/introduction.xml
+++ b/doc/introduction.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.12 2002-08-30 01:17:10 mike Exp $ -->
  <title>Introduction</title>
  
  <sect1>
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
      <para>
       Robust updating - records can be added and deleted ``on the fly''
       without rebuilding the index from scratch.
-      Registers can be safely updated even while users are accessing
+      Records can be safely updated even while users are accessing
       the server.
       The update procedure is tolerant to crashes or hard interrupts
-      during register updating - registers can be reconstructed following
+      during database updating - data can be reconstructed following
       a crash.
      </para>
     </listitem>
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@
    Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
    academic and commercial worlds, in application domains as diverse
    as bibliographic catalogues, geospatial information, structured
-   vocabulary browsing, ### (Help, guys!)
+   vocabulary browsing, government information locators, civic
+   information systems, environmental observations, museum information
+   and web indexes.
   </para>
   <para>
    Notable applications include the following:
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@
   <sect2>
    <title>DADS - the DTV Article Database Service</title>
    <para>
-    DADS is a huge database of more than ten million records, totally
+    DADS is a huge database of more than ten million records, totalling
     over ten gigabytes of data.  The records are metadata about academic
     journal articles, primarily scientific; about 10% of these
     metadata records link to the full text of the articles they
@@ -207,15 +209,75 @@
     full text is not indexed.)
    </para>
    <para>
-    It allows students and researchers at DTU (###) to find and order
+    It allows students and researchers at DTU (Danmarks Tekniske
+    Universitet, the Technical College of Denmark) to find and order
     articles from multiple databases in a single query.  The database
     contains literature on all engineering subjects.  It's available
-    on-line through a web gateway at
-	http://www.dtv.dk/search/index_e.htm
-    though currently only to registered users.
+    on-line through a web gateway, though currently only to registered
+    users.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    More information can be found at
+    <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/help/dads/index_e.htm"/>
    </para>
   </sect2>
 
+<!--
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+From: Johannes Leveling <Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.de>
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+Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:19:55 +0200
+To: zebra@miketaylor.org.uk
+Subject: [Zebralist] Looking for Deployment Stories
+In-Reply-To: <200208281002.LAA16526@seatbooker.net>
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+
+Mike Taylor writes:
+ > People,
+ > 
+ > In collaboration with Sebastian, Adam and Heikki, I am reworking some
+ > parts of the Zebra documentation in preparation for the forthcoming
+ > release.  One area I am keen to expand on is (briefly) describing
+ > interesting applications of Zebra.  If you've deployed it in a way
+ > that you consider interesting, I'd love to hear from you, however
+ > briefly.  Think of this as a chance to get some free publicity for
+ > your application in the Zebra documentation.
+ > 
+ > Replies off-list to <zebra@miketaylor.org.uk>, please.
+ > 
+ >  _/|_	 _______________________________________________________________
+ > /o ) \/  Mike Taylor   <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>   www.miketaylor.org.uk
+ > )_v__/\  There are some good things you can never have too much of.
+ > 
+ > 
+ > _______________________________________________
+ > Zebralist mailing list
+ > Zebralist@indexdata.dk
+ > http://www.indexdata.dk/mailman/listinfo/zebralist
+ > 
+Intersting?
+We have developed a natural language interface (NLI-Z39.50) for access
+to library databases at the Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany
+(http://ki212.fernuni-hagen.de/nli/NLI.html).
+To prepare formal information retrieval evaluation,
+we chose the Zebra server as the basis for
+evaluating retrieval effectiveness (measuring recall 
+and precision for the GIRT database). The Zebra database 
+consists of more than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic 
+records from social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation. 
+Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003 
+(see http://clef.iei.pi.cnr.it or http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/).
+
+
+Johannes Leveling        Praktische Informatik VII/KI           
+                         FernUniversität Hagen
+
+Email : Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De  
+Tel.  : +49 2331 987-4525
+
+-->
+
   <sect2>
    <title>Various web indexes</title>
    <para>