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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Reference Books on the Web |
Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network |
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Building ResourceFinder |
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Managed Learning? |
Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The Concept of the Portal |
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Do They Need to Know? |
Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web security. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
EEVL: Brand new EEVL service |
Roddy Macleod introduces a new service. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb |
Phil Bradley's regular column. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers |
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column. |
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Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities |
Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities. |
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Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless |
Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar |
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
Book Review: The Invisible Web |
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web. |
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An Introduction to Web Services |
Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Architects of the Information Age |
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions |
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper |
Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books |
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus |
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
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 |
Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey |
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. |
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ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Managing Digital Video Content |
Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives |
Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2001, issue29, news and events |
Software Review: C4U |
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread |
Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28. |
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Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges |
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects |
Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution |
Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students |
Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond |
Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver |
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics? |
Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative |
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering |
Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research |
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
