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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Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web |
Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together? |
Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Aerade |
John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
A Free ISP from the British Library |
Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library. |
December 1999, issue22, 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 |
EEVL: Round the World |
Roddy MacLeod considers Southern African engineering resources. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report |
George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service. |
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Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site |
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. |
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Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service |
Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways |
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23. |
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So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue? |
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online |
Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems |
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us? |
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
EPRESS |
Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
A Wired Honduran Christmas |
Eddie Young hooks up to the global network, with some improvised electrical plumbing |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility |
Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility. |
March 2000, issue23, regular column |
Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services |
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. |
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Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March |
March 2000, issue23, event report |
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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Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It? |
Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it. |
June 2000, issue24, 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 |
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People |
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library |
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online |
Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Agora: From Information Maze to Market |
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
BIOME |
Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
June 2000, issue24, regular column |
LONGITUDE: The Users in the Digital Landscape |
Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library. |
June 2000, issue24, regular column |
Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 2000, issue24, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site |
Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives. |
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A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways |
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library |
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies |
George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas |
Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web? |
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
BIOME News |
Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath. |
