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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.

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• 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 (prepublication version, c2016), by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (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

• 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)

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)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)
• R for Data Science (prepublication version, c2016), by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (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 (2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at educopia.org)
• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.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)
• 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.