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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Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface |
Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Down Your Way: Thames Valley University |
Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley University. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Theses Unbound |
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries. |
September 1997, issue11, feature article |
Edbank |
Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library. |
September 1997, issue11, project update |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries |
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Minotaur |
Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative |
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service |
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Digital Libraries '97 |
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
BULISC '97 |
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs? |
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
Old Ghosts Rear Their Heads |
Peter Brophy calls for effective use of email. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
The Lesser of Two EEVLs? |
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
On Demand Publishing in the Humanities |
Phil Sykes reports on the latest work in On Demand Publishing in the Humanities, an eLib project. |
November 1997, issue12, project update |
The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form |
Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site. |
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Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library |
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges |
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Consortium and Site Licensing |
Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group. |
November 1997, issue12, event report |
The Impact of IMPEL |
Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project. |
January 1998, issue13, feature article |
Hylife |
Ian Winkworth describes a Hybrid Library project for all. |
January 1998, issue13, project update |
Music Libraries Online |
Celia Duffy describes a virtual music catalogue. |
January 1998, issue13, project update |
Minotaur |
Louis Schmier finds no miracles in Cyberspace. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium |
Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective |
Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information. |
January 1998, issue13, event report |
Information Services: A Mission and a Vision |
Les Watson asks how we use technology in general as part of the learning process, in this extended version of the main article in the print version of Ariadne |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
Internet Resources for Older People |
Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
EDDIS |
David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
So What Is So Exciting about LAMDA? |
Frederick Friend explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors |
Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability |
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design |
Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales considers multimedia web design, asking whether we are running down an up escalator. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Regard |
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines |
Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Web Focus: Animate Your Pages |
Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources |
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
Project Patron |
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
ROUTES Project |
Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
