Everything about Web storage

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Web storageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hydrogen storage performance of a novel metal hydride reactor coupled with spider web fins and phase change materialsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Webmaster In A NutshellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: REDCap: web-based software for all types of data storage and collectionCited 96 times
5. Go sideways: IndexedDBA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: DOM eventA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• REDCap: web-based software for all types of data storage and collection

  L. A. Harvey · 2018 · Spinal Cord · 96 citations

• Evaluating QUIC Performance Over Web, Cloud Storage, and Video Workloads

  Tanya Shreedhar, Rohit Panda, Sergey Podanev · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 79 citations

• Web-based acquisition, storage, and retrieval of biomedical signals

  N.H. Lovell, F. Magrabi, B.G. Celler · 2001 · IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine · 35 citations

• Relative Lempel-Ziv factorization for efficient storage and retrieval of web collections

  Christopher Hoobin, Simon J. Puglisi, Justin Zobel · 2011 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 30 citations

• Browser Forensic Investigations of WhatsApp Web Utilizing IndexedDB Persistent Storage

  Furkan Paligu, Cihan Varol · 2020 · Future Internet · 17 citations

• WebCloud: Web-Based Cloud Storage for Secure Data Sharing Across Platforms

  Shuzhou Sun, Hui Ma, Zishuai Song · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 17 citations

• The art of massive storage: a Web image archive

  N. Talagala, S. Asami, D. Patterson · 2000 · Computer · 13 citations

• An Empirical Analysis of Web Storage and Its Applications to Web Tracking

  Zubair Ahmad, Samuele Casarin, Stefano Calzavara · 2023 · ACM Transactions on the Web · 11 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hydrogen storage performance of a novel metal hydride reactor coupled with spider web fins and phase change materials

  Xiangjin Wang, Honghua Zhao, Hongxia Zhao · 2025 · Journal of Energy Storage · 21 citations

• Efficient Data Modeling and Storage Solutions with SQL and NoSQL Databases in Web Applications

  Vasudhar Sai Thokala · 2022 · International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology · 17 citations

• A Scalable, Web-Based Platform for Proteomics Data Processing, Result Storage and Analysis

  Markus Schneider, Daniel P. Zolg, Patroklos Samaras · 2025 · Journal of Proteome Research · 7 citations

• Leveraging Database Technologies for Efficient Data Modeling and Storage in Web Applications

  Dhruv Patel · 2024 · International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology · 6 citations

• Toward Secure Data Storage in Web 3.0: Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption

  Bei Gong, Chong Guo, Yi-Jing Liu · 2023 · IEEE Network · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Webmaster In A NutshellStephen Spainhour, Inc., O'Reilly Media · 1996
• A semantic Web primerG. Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen · 2003
• Communication of Complex InformationMichael J. Albers · 2004
• Search Engine OptimizationJennifer Grappone, Gradiva Couzin · 2006
• 📕U.S. Department of Education World Wide WebNational Library of Education (U.S.) · 1996
• Knitting the Semantic WebJane Greenberg · 2007
• Information architecture for the World Wide WebLouis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville · 2002
• Inventing the InternetJanet Abbate · 1999

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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