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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Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37. |
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Unicode and Historic Scripts |
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available |
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing |
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now? |
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification |
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
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 |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003 |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
EEVL News |
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work. |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
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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ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse |
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian |
Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series. |
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Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services |
Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference. |
