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I am developing new software and I want to have a list of resources for the web pages that I have used to develop this software. Example of my-resources.txt:

- https://tutorialxyz.com/xxxx
- https://domainxyz.com/xxxx
- ...

Do you use bibliography for this type of file or do you use another name?

In Spanish we use webgrafía, maybe in English it could be webgraphy?

I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webography

UPDATE 2019/03/17

I asked to other software developers, in this case, one of them is from UK and the other one is from USA. They tell that they usually use "webography" but sometimes they saw "webliography" too.

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    Please, I have a plea: I am developing new software, no a.
    – Lambie
    Commented Mar 16, 2019 at 17:41
  • I concur with @Lambie on this one. Software is a mass (uncountable) noun. Either say "developing new software", or if you want to be clear that it's one bit of software, say "developing a new piece of software", or "a new software programme".
    – SamBC
    Commented Mar 16, 2019 at 19:04
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    or a new software application, or a new app [mostly for mobile phones]
    – Lambie
    Commented Mar 16, 2019 at 19:10
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    @fred2: I wouldn't be surprised if it were something that's just completely inconsistent. I remember people trying to drum in the difference between disc and disk, but I doubt it stuck. Not that it matters as much anymore...
    – SamBC
    Commented Mar 17, 2019 at 14:28
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    @SamBC. Which reminds me of my one piece of South African English. The later 'non-floppy 3.5 inch floppy disks' were called 'stiffy disks' in South Africa. People I worked with sent me "stiffies" through the post. :-0
    – fred2
    Commented Mar 17, 2019 at 20:39

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In English, a bibliography is a bibliography, regardless of the media referred to.

Depending on what you're doing, you may need to be careful to use it correctly. If it is a list of things you've used, or suggest that people read, that is a bibliography. In some parts of academia, this is distinguished from a reference list, which is a list of things referred to in the text.

The coinage of webography is still new, and mostly used when talking about such lists, rather than as the heading or title for the list. It is not a word that everyone would generally recognise. In your case, I would use bibliography, or just not use any name and say "list of web resources that were useful during development" or such.

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  • It's also not uncommon to have a list titled Further Reading, which may or may not be distinguished from a Reference List (and/or Bibliography? Not sure on that specific point).
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Mar 16, 2019 at 16:58
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For what it's worth, I develop software too.

I have never heard the word 'webography' before, but I suppose it is appropriate if you are only including URLs of websites. It means, in essence, 'bibliography of websites'. However, it is such a new word that some people may not know what it is.

To my mind, if you are storing it as a plain text file, there is nothing wrong with calling it 'my-resources.txt', or what about the traditional 'readme.txt'?

I think it is an uncommon enough item that you can, to an extent, make up your own rules.

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I would avoid the neologism "webgraphy" and simply call such a list a "list of resources", "list of links to resources", "list of resource URLs" or the like. It could be called a "Bibliography of online resources".

There is the precedant of "Discology" for a list of recorded music, but I don't think "webgraphy" is well enough established for use. In fact, I am thinking that I should propose the deletion of the linked Wikipedia article.

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These experts (how to cite software) use:

Software downloaded from the web: [bolding mine in this citation]

ProductName. Version. ReleaseDate. Publisher. Location. DOIorURL. DownloadDate.

OGSA-DAI REST. 4.2.1. December 2012. OGSA-DAI Project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogsa-dai. 27/04/2012.

UltimateFFT. 2.4. December 2012. Fred Bloggs, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK. http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/ultimate-fft. 27/04/2012.

C implementation of Wu's color quantizer. 2. 1991. Xiaolin Wu, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~xwu/cq.c. 27/04/2012.

Software checked-out from a public repository:

ProductName. Publisher. URL. CheckoutDate. RepositorySpecificCheckoutInformation.

OGSA-DAI REST. OGSA-DAI Project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogsa-dai. 27/04/2012. Check-out: ogsa-dai/branck/ogsadai4.1/, revision 1657.

Software provided by a researcher:

ProductName. Author. Location. ContactDetails. ReceivedDate.
BestFFTroutine ever file. Fred Bloggs, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK. [email protected]. 27/04/2012.

There is a lot of useful information on the subject of citations, etc. on that site. The entry I cited seems relevant to your endeavors.

Webografia links to webography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webography.

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