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Edition 08 — Humanities · collecting
The Canon Issue
How lists become memory — Gutenberg, Pantheon, Rolling Stone, and literary fame.
By the Artometrics Research Desk
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7 reports in this issue
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69,027 LCSH Records Anchor Project Gutenberg's Catalog Core
project-gutenberg
English Commands 72% of Gutenberg's 75,000-Book Public-Domain Shelf
project-gutenberg-public-domain-canon-map
Power, Art, and Science Dominate Global Memory—85,000 Lives in MIT's Pantheon Dataset
pantheon-the-artometrics-of-collective-memory
691 albums, median rank 250 — Rolling Stone's 2003 canon structure
rolling-stone-albums
Sherlock Holmes Stories Cluster Around 12 Words per Record in Tokenized Corpus
sherlock-holmes
Victorian Authors Dominate the Christmas Novel Canon
christmas-novels
Medium posts at 4 minutes median — does length predict claps?
medium-articles
Glue & meta
Cross-citing essays that mint new claims from multiple reports.
· canon-formation-mechanics
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69,027 LCSH Records Anchor Project Gutenberg's Catalog Core
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Power, Art, and Science Dominate Global Memory—85,000 Lives in MIT's Pantheon Dataset
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