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Invisible Web

Here are entered works on the portion of the World Wide Web that may not be accessible through general-purpose search engines. Works on the portion of the World Wide Web that is intentionally hidden from search engines and is accessible only with anonymity software and special authorizations are entered under Dark Web.

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

• World Wide Web

• Dark web

• Deepnet
• Deep Web
• Hidden Web

• Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Ben Collier (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

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

• World Wide Web: Beyond the Basics (prepublication version, 1996), ed. by Marc Abrams (HTML with commentary at vt.edu)
• Spinning the Web: A Guide to Serving Information on the Internet (first edition, 1994), by Andrew Ford (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (London: University of Westminster Press, c2020), by Paolo Bory (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Web Writing Style Guide (electronic edition; 2011), ed. by Matt Barton, James Robert Kalmbach, and Charles Lowe (multiple formats at writingspaces.org)
• Web-Teaching (second edition, 2001), by David W. Brooks, Diane E. Nolan, and Susan Gallagher (HTML at unl.edu)
• A World's Fair for the Global Village (without audio CD; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1997), by Carl Malamud
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Introduction to Metadata (online edition 3.0, 2008), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland, Maureen Whalen, and Mary S. Woodley (HTML with commentary at getty.edu)
• Perl and LWP (online edition, 2007), by Sean M. Burke (HTML at interglacial.com)
• My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (c1998), by Julian Dibbell (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)
• The Internet Publishing Handbook: For World-Wide Web, Gopher, and WAIS (c1995), by Mike Franks (HTML at mikeandnaomi.com)
• Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (unclassified version, slightly redacted; Fort Meade, MD: Center for Digital Content, National Security Agency, 2007), by Robyn Winder, contrib. by Charlie Speight (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of Concepts, Guidelines and Recommendations (2006), by Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe (PDF with commentary at cerl.org)
• Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (c2002), by Ross Dawson (PDF files with commentary at livingnetworksbook.com)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures (dissertation that introduced the REST architecture; 2000), by Roy T. Fielding (HTML and PDF at UC Irvine)
• Web Client Programming with Perl (first edition, 1997), by Clinton Wong (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)
• The Strategist and the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The Strategist and the Web Revisited: An Updated Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Luci e Ombre di Google (The Dark Side of Google) (originally in Italian, ca. 2007; with translations to English, French, and other languages), by Ippolita Collective (PDF files with commentary at ippolita.net)
• Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Learning, by David J. McArthur and Matthew W. Lewis (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Night Crawlers on the Web (2000), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

• Webology (2004-) (full serial archives)
• First Monday (full serial archives)

• Semantic Web: Interoperability, Usability, Applicability (2020-) (full serial archives)

• Social Media Mining: An Introduction (prepublication draft, with supplementary materials; 2014), by Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, and Huan Liu (PDF with commentary at asu.edu)

• Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Ben Collier (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c2002), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, Sara Shatford Layne, and Christine L. Sundt (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (c2008), by Raymond Yee (HTML at mashupguide.net)

• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Common Lisp Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at Github)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at Github)
• An Introduction to Ontology Engineering (c2020), by C. Maria Keet (PDF in South Africa)
• Linked Data Patterns: A Pattern Catalogue for Modelling, Publishing, And consuming Linked Data (2012), by Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis (multiple formats at dataincubator.org)
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (free electronic edition, c2011), by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (illustrated HTML with commentary at linkeddatabook.com)
• Validating RDF Data (c2018), by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, and Dimitris Kontokostas (illustrated HTML with commentary at validatingrdf.com)
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Linked Data Patterns: A Pattern Catalogue for Modelling, Publishing, And consuming Linked Data (2012), by Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis (multiple formats at dataincubator.org)
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (free electronic edition, c2011), by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (illustrated HTML with commentary at linkeddatabook.com)
• Validating RDF Data (c2018), by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, and Dimitris Kontokostas (illustrated HTML with commentary at validatingrdf.com)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Common Lisp Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at Github)
• Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications: Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition (c2010), by Mark Watson (PDF at Github)
• Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), ed. by Antonio Pareja-Lora, María Blume, Barbara Lust, and Christian Chiarcos (PDF at dropbox.com)

• The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience (Society of American Archivists, 2009), by J. Gordon Daines and Cory L. Nimer (HTML at archivists.org)
• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (c2008), by Raymond Yee (HTML at mashupguide.net)
• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)

• E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009) (full serial archives)