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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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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 |
Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research |
Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
Public Libraries Corner: Treasure Island on the Web |
Sarah Ormes looks at children's libraries and literacy, and describes the Treasure Island Web pages, a resource that shows how the potential of the Web can be used to make classic texts more accessible to a younger audience. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Open Journal Trip Report |
Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human |
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
MIDRIB |
Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Intranets |
Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given. |
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ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology |
Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled |
George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day |
Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That! |
Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z). |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Down Your Way: John Moores |
Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web |
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. |
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British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process? |
Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Allerton 1996 |
Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
ADAM: Bits and Pieces |
Tony Gill presents a few bits and pieces of news regarding the ADAM project which was featured in issue 3 of Ariadne. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Access V Holdings, Cranfield |
Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar |
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
