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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OMNI Seminar |
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. |
January 1997, issue7, event report |
Creating Models for Electronic Citations |
Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Networking Moving Images |
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
IPL: The Internet Public Library |
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
ERIMS |
Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
ESPERE |
Dee Wood reports on the Electronic Submission and Peer Review Project. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Data Archive at the University of Essex |
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Web Access for the Disabled |
Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins |
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web |
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
OMNI Corner |
In her regular appearance in Ariadne, Sue Welsh, introduces a new experiment in network indexing underway at OMNI. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Handling MARC With PERL |
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. |
