Overview of content related to 'software'
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Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software is intangible, meaning it "cannot be touched (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Software)
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'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language |
Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road |
Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office. |
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Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking at a Workshop |
Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used to support note-taking at a workshop. |
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Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA |
Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles. |
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Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing |
Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology. |
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Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future |
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. |
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WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards |
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. |
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Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points |
Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites. |
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Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. |
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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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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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Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey |
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. |
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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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Web Focus: HTML is Dead! |
HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing. |
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Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site? |
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. |
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Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV |
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. |
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Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites |
Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites. |
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Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath. |
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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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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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Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services |
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. |
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Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site |
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways |
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. |
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Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop |
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." |
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WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email |
Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser. |
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Web Focus: Extending Your Browser |
Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser. |
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WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project |
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. |
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Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management |
Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies |
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
