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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Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving |
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets |
Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach |
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study |
Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Digitizing Wilfrid |
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
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 |
Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day |
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web |
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. |
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Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project |
Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Do They Need to Know? |
Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web security. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
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 |
Down Your Way |
Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library. |
March 1996, issue2, regular column |
Down Your Way |
Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Down Your Way |
Kathryn Arnold on the electronic university and the virtual campus. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Down Your Way: John Moores |
Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years. |
November 1996, issue6, 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 |
Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library |
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library |
Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe |
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories |
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. |
July 2007, issue52, 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 |
Dublin Core Management |
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools |
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
E-Books for Students: EBONI |
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding? |
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences |
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing? |
Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences |
Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators |
Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
e-Framework Implements New Workplan |
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. |
April 2009, issue59, 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 |
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now? |
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report |
Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
ECDL 2007 |
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
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 |
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems |
Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS). |
June 1999, issue20, feature article |
