The Online Books Page

Data sets

Here are entered works on collections of discrete items of related data that can be accessed individually, in combination, or as a whole. Works on collections of resources in digital formats are entered under Digital libraries.

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

• Computer files
• Electronic information resources

• Big data

• Datasets
• Raw data sets

• Knowledge Graphs and Big Data Processing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12072; Cham: Springer, c2020), ed. by Valentina Janev, Damien Graux, Hajira Jabeen, and Emanuel Sallinger (multiple formats at Springer Link)
• Data Journeys in the Sciences (Cham: Springer Open, c2020), ed. by Sabina Leonelli and Niccolò Tempini (multiple formats at Springer Link)
• Ethics and Data Science (c2019), by Michael Kosta Loukides, Hilary Mason, and DJ Patil (HTML at oreilly.com)
• The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons (Cape Town: African Minds; Ottawa: IDRC, 2019), ed. by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini (multiple formats with commentary at od4d.net)
• Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Patrik Svensson (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, c2016), by Katherine Behar (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• R for Data Science (second edition, c2023), by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund (illustraterd HTML with commentary in New Zealand)
• Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), ed. by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• R for Data Science (first edition, c2017), by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (illustrated HTML with commentary in New Zealand)
• Cloudera Impala (Sebastopol, CA et al: O'Reilly, c2014), by John Russell (page images at cloudera.com)

• The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies (London: University of Westminster Press, 2018), by Annika Richterich
  • multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press
  • HTML at Project MUSE
• Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (Oakland: University of California Press, 2025), by Anita Say Chan (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (London: University College London Press, 2022), by Chiara Bonacchi (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data (Al Jazeera America, c2014), by Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld (multiple formats at aljazeera.com)

• Big Data and Society (2014-) (partial serial archives)

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

• Electronic Evidence (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017), ed. by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Introduction to Computer Programming (Tulsa, OK and Burlington, ON: Hayes, c1982), by Brian Reffin Smith, ed. by Lisa Watts, illust. by Graham Round and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Compute!'s Second Book of Atari (1982) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• There is No Software, There are Just Services (Lüneberg: Meson Press, 2015), ed. by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker (PDF with commentary at meson.press)
• Release 1.0 (1983-2006), ed. by Esther Dyson (full serial archives)

• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing (electronic edition, revised 2003), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greenspun.com)
• Database Backed Web Sites (electronic edition, 1997), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greespun.com)
• Learning Data Science (c2023), by Sam Lau, Joseph Gonzalez, and Deborah Ann Nolan (illustrated HTML with commentary at learningds.org)
• R for Data Science (second edition, c2023), by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund (illustraterd HTML with commentary in New Zealand)
• R for Data Science (first edition, c2017), by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (illustrated HTML with commentary in New Zealand)

• The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation (prepublication draft, 2017), by Trevor Owens (PDF with commentary at LISSA)
• Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving (2013), ed. by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)
• A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institute, 2010), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Matt Schultz (PDF with commentary at metaarchive.org)
• Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information (final report of the BRTF; 2010), by Abby Smith Rumsey and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
• Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation (interim report of the BRTF; 2008), by Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
• Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice (2004), by Gail M. Hodge and Evelyn Frangakis (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (2000), by Alan S. Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander (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)
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata (version 2.1 or later, with supplementary material; v2.1 was published 2011) (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• Understanding PREMIS (c2009), by Priscilla Caplan (PDF at loc.gov)
• Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (c2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at unt.edu)
• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)
• After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Trevor Owens (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Maja Kominko (multiple formats with audio and commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• 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)
• Preserving Government Information: Past, Present and Future (San Diego and San Francisco: FreeGovInfo Press, 2025), by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs (PDF and Epub with commentary at freegovinfo.info)
• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)
• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, by University of Glasgow Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (HTML at NYU)
• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2000), ed. by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.