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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 62: The Wisdom of Communities |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. |
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Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data |
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting |
Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010, issue62, news and events |
Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
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Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture |
Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism. |
