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Data centers

Here are entered works on facilities that organize, process, store, and disseminate large amounts of data.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Computer service industry

• Information storage and retrieval systems

• Data centers -- Management

• Datacenters
• Data libraries

• The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines (third edition; c2022), by Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (PDF with commentary at springer.com)

• Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Connie Clare, Maria J. Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (CLIR publication #160; c2013), by Council on Library and Information Resources (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• An Assessment of Information Systems Capabilities Required To Support U.S. Materials Policy Decisions (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (Washington: Digital Library Federation, 2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF here at Penn)
• A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services (Washington: Digital Library Federation, 2003), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF here at Penn)
• Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Connie Clare, Maria J. Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools (final report to Library of Congress, 2006), by Karen Calhoun (PDF at loc.gov)
• Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery (Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2019), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF with commentary at reidsrow.com)
• Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (CLIR publication #160; c2013), by Council on Library and Information Resources (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research, c2009), ed. by Anthony J. G. Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Michele Tolle (PDF files with commentary at Microsoft)
• Notes on Digital Computers and Data Processors, Prepared for Special Summer Conferences at the University of Michigan (supplements not included, some pages out of order; 1956), ed. by John W. Carr and Norman R. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information Retrieval (second edition), by C. J. Van Rijsbergen (HTML in the UK)
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)

• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)
• The High Technology Company: A Historical Research and Archival Guide (Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, 1989), by Bruce Bruemmer and Sheldon Hocheiser (PDF at umn.edu)

• Assessing Biological Diversity in the United States: Data Considerations (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries (Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000), ed. by Susan Harum and Michael Twidale (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of Alternatives for a National Computerized Criminal History System (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Trusted Database Management System Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

• Geocomputation With R (free online second edition, c2024), by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Münchow (illustrated HTML with commentary at geocompx.org)

• Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Concept of Operations (ConOps V1.0) For The Future Digital System: Final (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), by American Council of Learned Societies (PDF with commentary at acls.org)
• A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), ed. by Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)

• The FBI Fingerprint Identification Automation Program: Issues and Options (background paper; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Policy Implications of Medical Information Systems (OTA-H-56; 1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Georgetown
• MEDLARS and Health Information Policy (PB83-168658; 1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Computer Technology in Medical Education and Assessment (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
• The Computer Journal (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, by American Society for Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)

• Preserving Scientific Data On Our Physical Universe: A New Strategy for Archiving the Nation's Scientific Information Resources (1995), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Electronic Bulls and Bears: U.S. Securities Markets and Information Technology (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• A Guide to Understanding Data Remanence in Automated Information Systems (version 2; 1991), by James K. Goldson (HTML at fas.org)

• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), by American Council of Learned Societies (PDF with commentary at acls.org)

• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), by Yochai Benkler (PDF and HTML files with commentary at benkler.org)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Digital Creativity (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996), by Owen Kelly (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Squeak by Example (electronic edition, 2008), by Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Marius Nierstrasz, and Damien Pollet (PDF with commentary at squeakbyexample.org)

• Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Lars Heide (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Data-Intensive Text Processing With MapReduce (prepublication version, 2010), by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer (PDF at umd.edu)
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• Text Algorithms (electronic edition, 1997), by Maxime Crochemore and Wojciech Rytter (PDF in France)
• What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to Add Intelligent Markup to Digital Resources (Marseille: OpenEdition Press, 2014), by Lou Burnard (HTML with commentary at openedition.org)
• Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, c2024), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• Inside Macintosh: Text (c1993), by Apple Computer, Inc. (PDF at Apple)
• Text Processing in Python, by David Mertz (text with commentary at gnosis.cx)
• Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, by TEI Consortium (HTML with commentary at tei-c.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.