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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Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case |
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs |
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University |
David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services |
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
JSTOR |
Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) |
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library |
Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways |
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Minotaur: When Computer Knows Best? |
Harold Thimbleby criticises the urge to upgrade. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner |
Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
SGML, XML and Databases |
Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London |
December 1998, issue18, event report |
Teleworking from Home |
Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
VERITY |
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. |
September 1998, issue17, project update |
Down Your Way |
Kathryn Arnold on the electronic university and the virtual campus. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum |
Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography |
Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management |
Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
UKOLUG |
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
The Good, the Bad and the Useless |
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. |
July 1998, issue16, feature article |
Heron: Higher Education Resources Online |
Carolyn Rowlinson outlines the aims of the Heron eLib project. |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol |
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
SKIP: Skills for New Information Professionals |
Penny Garrod reviews the Skills for new Information Professionals project |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
Down Your Way |
Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Metadata Corner |
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner |
Sally Criddle reports on Resurrection: a new life for powerful public libraries. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies |
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium |
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. |
July 1998, issue16, event report |
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 |
Showing Robots the Door |
Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled. |
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What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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Public Libraries Corner: Elvis Is Alive and Well and Selling Library Management Systems in Kansas City |
Sarah Ormes reports from the American Public Library Association conference in Missouri. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
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 |
