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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Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing |
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements |
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Tap Into Bath |
Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service |
Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries? |
Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users. |
July 2004, issue40, regular column |
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. |
July 2004, issue40, regular column |
PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing |
Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference |
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2004, issue40, news and events |
Book Review: Information Architecture - Designing Information Environments for Purpose |
John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole. |
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Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services |
David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions. |
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Book Review: Developing Web-based Instruction |
Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature. |
