The Arcadia Project is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age. A major part of the project is a Fellowship Program which brings interesting people to Cambridge to work on aspects of this very broad subject. We have a project website which serves as the hub for our more formal activities. This blog is an informal space for exchanging ideas, contacts and sources.
Moving to quarto and LaTeX…
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For several years, I’ve been creating “storynotes”, collections of story
variants for particualr folk tales, as well as collections of news stories
contemp...
AI vs human designed book covers
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For my upcoming novel, I could budget for paying for a person to copyedit
or design the cover. I opted for splashing out for the cover, and doing
copyediti...
Laid Off, Again
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On July 29th, I was enjoying a week of vacation, spending time with my
spouse’s family in South Dakota. I got an out-of-the-blue text message
asking me t...
Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Bargain Bin
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On the back of the proposed Anthropic copyright settlement there is almost
certainly a long line forming outside the Association of American
Publishers (...