Overview of content related to 'free software'
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Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and that manufacturers of consumer-facing hardware allow user modifications to their hardware. Free software is generally available without charge, but can have a fee, such as in the form of charging for CDs or other distribution medium among other ways. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Free software)
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Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
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Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture |
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries |
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management |
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2007, issue50, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2006, issue47, news and events |
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
EEVL: Search Me! |
Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options. |
January 2003, issue34, regular column |
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge |
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions |
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Building on BUILDER |
Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services |
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. |
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Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services |
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet |
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services |
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Intranets |
Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given. |
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Putting the UK on the Map |
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
AC/DC |
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
