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 52: The New Invisible Industry |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. |
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DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories |
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository |
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. |
July 2007, issue52, 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 |
The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates |
Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors |
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future |
As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library |
Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community |
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Repositories Support Project Summer School |
Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
JASIG June 2007 Conference |
Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Blogging from the Backroom |
Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning? |
Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2007, issue52, news and events |
Book Review: Managing the Test People |
Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager. |