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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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r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe |
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. |
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Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK |
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). |
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Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface |
Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Down Your Way: Thames Valley University |
Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley University. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
The NHS, the Internet and Libraries: The NHS Anglia and Oxford Internet Project |
Judy Palmer and Myles Chippendale describe an initiative that is using the Internet to connect widely dispersed health libraries. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
EEVL |
Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service |
Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
The Australian Museums on Line Project |
Louise Douglas and Stephen Hall describe the Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) project, which aims to dramatically increase access to the cultural resources of Australian museums via the Internet by 2001 through the AMOL World Wide Web site. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Monash University Library Electronic Resources Directory |
Lisa Smith describes a system which can be used to help people locate the electronic resources of Monash University Library |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Indian Ocean Rim Region Virtual Library Project |
Susan Lutley describes a prototype virtual library, built as part of a co-operative venture focusing on broad issues in Social Development within the Indian Ocean Rim Region. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia |
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Metadata, PICS and Quality |
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. |
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Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Internationalisation and the Web |
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference |
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. |
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Netskills Corner: The Evolution of HTML - Netscape Gold |
Niall Mackenzie looks at using Netscape Gold for a more automated manner of Web page production. |
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Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians |
Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics |
Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Web Access for the Disabled - HOTmetal PRO Helps to Bring Access to the Web |
Cathy Murtha gives some details of an upgrade to a popular Web production tool that will make Web page creation easier for many disabled people. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
View from the Hill: Anne Dixon |
Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Interface: Dr Isola Ajiferuke |
Sheona Farquhar gains an insight into the problems of the information-poor. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes |
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. |
May 1997, issue9, event report |
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. |
