Overview of content related to 'software'

Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions

editor — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK.

In the early days of the shift from paper-based to digital means of holding administrative records, research data, publications and other academic resources, those responsible for its safety tended to breathe a sigh of relief once they had got a category of material into digital form. Reduced to bits and bytes, all they would have to do is make regular backups, perhaps keeping a copy off-site in case of disaster, and all would be well. Increasingly, material of value to Further and Higher Education is produced and held only in digital form.

Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond

editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:00:00 +0000

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.

The “CHI” series of conferences sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM-SIGCHI) [1], in partnership with, among others, the British HCI Group, is the premier international conference on human aspects of computing. CHI2001: anyone.

DECOMATE II

editor — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.