International cooperation on connecting performing-rights organizations around the world through digital databases had become one of her major interests.

WSJ: Frances Preston | Setting Down Roots | By Barry Mazor

Digital materials include texts, databases, still and moving images, audio, graphics, software, and web pages, among a wide and growing range of formats.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Sun has a big stake in digital identity--managing the big databases requires special servers, called directories, good at fetching names.

FORBES: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Someday perfect strangers, each wearing their personalized databases, will encounter one another's digital fantasies--the cyberversion of two dogs sniffing each other out.

FORBES: Brave New World

Until the unnatural disaster hit, most digital information was in the form of structured data, such as databases that can be easily sorted and queried and analyzed.

FORBES: As Corporate Data Grows, Costs Don't Have To