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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Article summary | Date |
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The JISC Annual Conference 2007 |
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality |
Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 |
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
The Information Grid |
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection |
David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
The Impact of IMPEL |
Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project. |
January 1998, issue13, feature article |
The Good, the Bad and the Useless |
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. |
July 1998, issue16, feature article |
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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The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia |
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference |
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh |
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. |
March 2001, issue27, event report |
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model |
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. |
March 2001, issue27, 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 |
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe |
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The European Film Gateway |
Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. |
January 2009, issue58, 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 DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility |
Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility. |
March 2000, issue23, regular column |
The DISinHE Centre |
Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
The DISinHE Centre |
Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities? |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
The Digital Preservation Coalition |
Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience |
Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands |
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. |
October 2007, issue53, 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 |
The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle |
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World |
John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
The Australian Museums on Line Project |
Louise Douglas and Stephen Hall describe the Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) project, which aims to dramatically increase access to the cultural resources of Australian museums via the Internet by 2001 through the AMOL World Wide Web site. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent |
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
The AIM25 Project |
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
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 |
The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference |
Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July. |
September 1996, issue5, event report |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium |
Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Teleworking from Home |
Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
