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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, NYSE: MSFT) is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Microsoft)
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The Information Grid |
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies |
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. |
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Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2002, issue31, news and events |
Reference Books on the Web |
Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The Concept of the Portal |
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers |
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column. |
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Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities |
Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities. |
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Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People |
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
An Introduction to Web Services |
Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books |
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus |
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) |
Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services. |
October 2001, issue29, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2001, issue29, news and events |
Software Review: C4U |
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. |
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web |
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project |
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students |
Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond |
Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10 |
Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001. |
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The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model |
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif |
Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project). |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The LEODIS Database |
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 2001, issue27, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. |
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Building on BUILDER |
Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book |
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites |
Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites. |
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NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. |
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Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites. |
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Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It? |
Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers. |
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Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems |
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Broadband TV |
Philip Hunter links to broadband streaming video resources now emerging on the Internet. |
March 2000, issue23, 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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Review: in the Beginning... Was the Command Line |
Madeleine Shepherd reviews 'In the Beginning... was the Command Line' by Neal Stephenson. |
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Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts |
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web |
Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank |
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
