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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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Formats for the Electronic Library |
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet |
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue |
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Patient Education: A Role for Multimedia |
Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation |
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project |
Kerry Blinco provides details of a global electronic document delivery project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services |
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
The Resource Discovery Project |
As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library |
Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Monash University Electronic Reserve Project |
Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Preserving Oral History Recordings |
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45 |
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. |
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Introducing Web Focus |
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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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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Public Libraries Corner |
In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
Search Engine Corner |
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
OMNI Corner: New Societies for the Exploitation of Medicine on the Internet |
Sue Welsh looks at developments of interest to medics publishing on the Internet. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
Around the Table – Engineering |
Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World |
Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Disabil-IT? Conference |
Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues |
Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
ELVIRA 4 |
Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
