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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DELOS CEE Event: Current Trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe |
Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2003, issue35, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36. |
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Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs |
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry |
Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape |
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning |
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
MIMAS Ten Years on |
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
EEVL News and Enhancements |
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library |
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Review: Naked in Cyberspace |
Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age. |
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Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37. |
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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 |
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available |
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing |
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now? |
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification |
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003 |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
EEVL News |
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work. |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future |
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. |
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ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse |
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian |
Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series. |
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Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services |
Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38. |
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The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives |
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning |
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe |
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education |
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
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 |
