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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Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites. |
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XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors |
Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris. |
September 2000, issue25, event report |
DECOMATE II |
Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June. |
September 2000, issue25, event report |
After eLib |
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Building on BUILDER |
Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective |
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Clumps Come Up Trumps |
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing? |
Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book |
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA) |
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected |
Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected. |
January 2001, issue26, regular column |
EEVL |
Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project explains the new profile, new office: and coming soon: a new service. |
January 2001, issue26, regular column |
Metadata: Preservation 2000 |
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch |
Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV |
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. |
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Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites |
Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites. |
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NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw |
Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27. |
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After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning |
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
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 Digital Preservation Coalition |
Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
E-Books for Students: EBONI |
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project |
Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The LEODIS Database |
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
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 |
EEVL |
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects. |
March 2001, issue27, regular column |
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata |
Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. |
March 2001, issue27, regular column |
Web Focus: HTML is Dead! |
HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing. |
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Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site? |
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. |
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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 |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 2001, issue27, news and events |
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 |
