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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What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard? |
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
What Features in a Portal? |
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us? |
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
What Is an Open Repository? |
Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
What Is Apache? |
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. |
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What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education |
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective |
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
What's Good and Bad about BUBL |
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
What's in EEVL for Further Education |
Roddy MacLeod gives |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in SOSIG for Further Education? |
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers |
Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis |
Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments |
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion |
Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. |
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Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility. |
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Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. |
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Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) |
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Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) |
Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services. |
October 2001, issue29, regular column |
Wire: Brian Kelly |
Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking. |
July 1996, issue4, regular column |
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed |
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley |
Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email. |
March 1996, issue2, regular column |
Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch |
Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email. |
January 1996, issue1, regular column |
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Wire: Interview with Glen Monks |
Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold |
Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
September 1996, issue5, 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 |
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services |
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors |
Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris. |
September 2000, issue25, event report |
Z39.50 for All |
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web? |
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
