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• 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)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• 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)

• The Wizardry Compiled, by Rick Cook (HTML at Baen Books)
• Wizard's Bane, by Rick Cook (HTML at Baen Books)

• Guidelines for Formal Verification Systems (1989), by Barbara Mayer and Monica Mcgill Lu (HTML at fas.org)

• Compiler Construction (electronic edition, 2017), by Niklaus Wirth (PDF files in Switzerland)
• Basics of Compiler Design (anniversary edition; c2010), by Torben Æ. Mogensen (PDF with commentary in Denmark)
• Compiling Scala for the Java Virtual Machine (ca. 2005), by Michel Schinz (PDF in Switzerland)
• Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (electronic edition, 2005), by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht (PDF in Switzerland)
• TACOS: A Table-Driven Compiler System (UI Dept. of Computer Science report #325; 1969), by John Lawrence Gaffney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Compiler Design: Theory, Tools, and Examples (C++ and Java editions; updated from 1994 original), by Seth Bergmann (PDF and source code files at rowan.edu)
• Compilers and Compiler Generators: An Introduction with C++, by Pat Terry (HTML, PDF and Postscript with commentary at Rhodes University)
• The GENTLE Compiler Construction System, by Friedrich Wilhelm Schroer (HTML at compilertools.net)

• Whole Earth Software Catalog for 1986 (1985), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)
• Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.inco)

• Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation (c1999), by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, and Peter Sestoft (PDF and Postscript with commentary in Denmark)

• 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 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)
• 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)

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