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A number of books, documents and guides which were created to give advice on how to create and use electronic datasets in academic research.

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    Searching and Concordancing
    (University of Oxford, 2006) Wynne, Martin
    Pre-publication draft of a chapter which appeared in Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, edited by Merja Kytö & Anke Lüdeling, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, Pages: 706–737 [ISBN (Online): 9783110211429, DOI (Chapter): 10.1515/9783110211429.4.706, DOI (Book): 10.1515/9783110211429].
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    Developing Linguistic Corpora
    (University of Oxford, 2000) Wynne, Martin; Sinclair, John; Leech, Geoffrey; Burnard, Lou; McEnery, Anthony; Xiao, Richard; Thompson, Paul
    Individual chapters are as follows: Sinclair, J. 2005. "Corpus and Text - Basic Principles" Leech, G. 2005. "Adding Linguistic Annotation" Burnard, Lou. 2005. "Metadata for Corpus Work" McEnery, A. and Xiao, R. 2005. "Character Encoding in Corpus Construction" Thompson, P. 2005. "Spoken Language Corpora" Wynne, M. 2005. "Archiving, Distribution and Preservation"
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    AHDS Preservation Manuals
    (University of Oxford, 2005) Morrison, Alan; Wilson, Rowan; Wynne, Martin; Yeats, Stuart
    A series of preservation handbooks for different data types were produced by the Arts and Humanities Data Service. These three handbooks, all relating to textual data, were produced by staff at the Oxford Text Archive at Oxford University Computing Services. The Arts and Humanities Data Service was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Joint information Systems Committee of the UK's Higher Education Funding Councils, and by the participating universities.
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    Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts
    (University of Oxford, 2000) Morrison, Alan; Popham, Michael; Wikander, Karen
    This work was produced by staff at the Oxford Text Archive at Oxford University Computing Servicess, as part of the series of AHDS Guides to Good Practice. Each of these guides includes tips for discovering and re-using extant digital data, information about creating and managing new digital data, and guidance to ensure proper preparation and documentation of this data for long-term archiving. The Arts and Humanities Data Service was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Joint information Systems Committee of the UK's Higher Education Funding Councils, and by the participating universities.
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    Choosing an XML editor
    (University of Oxford, 2005) Broek, Thijs van den
    This work is made available as a historical document which offered up to date advice on available software at the time at which it was written.
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    An Investigation into Free eBooks
    (University of Oxford, 2004) Berglund, Ylva; Morrison, Alan; Wilson, Rowan; Wynne, Martin
    A report made by the OTA for JISC on the use of free Ebooks in higher education. This is work is made available here in a number of different formats, partly for reasons of accessibility, but also as a means of demonstrating contemporary ebook formats which are described in the work.