Overview of content related to 'operating system'
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An operating system (OS) is software, consisting of programs and data, that runs on computers, manages computer hardware resources, and provides common services for execution of various application software. For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between application programs and the computer hardware, although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently call the OS or be interrupted by it. Operating systems are found on almost any device that contains a computer - from cellular phones and video game consoles to supercomputers and web servers. Examples of popular modern operating systems for personal computers are: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Operating system)
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Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back? |
Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project |
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education |
Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
MyMobileBristol |
Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Netskills Corner |
Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2004, issue38, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2009, issue60, news and events |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability |
Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
Online Information 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
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 |
OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators |
Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines. |
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Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges |
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank |
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start |
Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future |
Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
Reading Van Gogh Online? |
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Review: in the Beginning... Was the Command Line |
Madeleine Shepherd reviews 'In the Beginning... was the Command Line' by Neal Stephenson. |
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Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements |
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Saving Energy in the Workplace |
Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach |
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Search Engines |
Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology. |
April 2002, issue31, regular column |
Search Engines: No Longer about Search |
Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?' |
January 2005, issue42, regular column |
Search Engines: Robots, Spiders and Your Website |
Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics. |
March 2001, issue27, regular column |
Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective |
Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Software Review: C4U |
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. |
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Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
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 JISC Information Environment and Web Services |
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Through the Web Authoring Tools |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. |
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Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management |
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users |
Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing. |
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Unicode and Historic Scripts |
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
View from the Hill: Mark Clark |
Mark Clark risks the longer view. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings |
Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. |
