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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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Article summary | Date |
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SGML, XML and Databases |
Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London |
December 1998, issue18, event report |
Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0 |
Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York |
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith |
Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Shibboleth Installation Workshop |
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Showing Robots the Door |
Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled. |
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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 |
SKIP: Skills for New Information Professionals |
Penny Garrod reviews the Skills for new Information Professionals project |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
So What Is So Exciting about LAMDA? |
Frederick Friend explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
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 |
Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences |
Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Software Review: C4U |
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. |
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SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway |
SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country. |
March 1996, issue2, project update |
SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research |
Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides |
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR |
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Spotlight on BIDS |
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Subject Trees: The Exeter Experience |
Ian Tilsed, Computing Development Officer at the University of Exeter Library, describes the building of the main University subject tree, or index, of Internet Resources. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting |
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative |
Ann Borda reports on the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI). |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Survive or Thrive |
Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP |
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit |
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers |
With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Tap Into Bath |
Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Tap Into Bath Takes Off |
Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks |
Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Teleworking from Home |
Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking. |
September 1998, issue17, 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 |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference |
Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July. |
September 1996, issue5, event report |
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
