{
  "row": "literary-ai",
  "address": "The Literary History of Artificial Intelligence",
  "entity": "The Literary History of Artificial Intelligence ('Literary AI'; 'On Literary AI' its about page), an online exhibit of the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library in eight cases (literaryai.library.columbia.edu), a collaboration between the Columbia English Department, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Columbia University's Digital Scholarship department, on 'the long, shared history of literature and computation through the Columbia Library's holdings', circa 1890–1970; formalized in the traininglayerliterature.org layer census record of 2026-11-01 (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/literary-ai)",
  "row_type": "C (a public entity on which the archive bears: a university library's online exhibit of the history of literature and computation; an entity of the traininglayerliterature.org layer census, host_relation 'historical lineage')",
  "aliases": [
    {"pattern": "\\bLiterary History of (Artificial Intelligence|AI)\\b", "flags": "i"},
    {"pattern": "\\bLiterary AI\\b", "flags": ""},
    {"pattern": "\\bliteraryai\\b", "flags": "i"},
    {"pattern": "\\bRBML\\b", "flags": ""}
  ],
  "classes": [
    {
      "term": "field histories of electronic, generative and computational literature (the history of literature and computation)",
      "pattern": "\\b(histor(y|ies) of (literature and computation|computational (literature|writing|poetics)|electronic literature|generative (literature|text|writing)|computer[- ]generated (text|literature|writing)|text generation|machine writing)|literature and computation|pre-?histor(y|ies) of (AI|artificial intelligence|machine writing|text generation))\\b",
      "flags": "i",
      "basis": "field: B3 (the exhibit's about page, card 3 and the census's own page: 'This exhibition explores the long, shared history of literature and computation through the Columbia Library’s holdings'); B2 (CU Narrative Intelligence Lab, card 2, the same paragraph). The census's area for the entity, 'field-history' ('Field history and indexes of electronic, generative and computational literature', census.json areas; rows[slug == 'literary-ai'].areas)."
    },
    {
      "term": "algorithmic composition and writing machines before machine learning (plot generators, combinatorial devices, early text-generating programs such as Strachey's love letters)",
      "pattern": "\\b(algorithmic (composition|writing|literature)|plot[- ]generators?|Plotto|Plot Genie|combinatori(al|cs?) (devices?|literature|poetry|writing)|written by machines|machine[- ]written|writing machines?|automat(ed|ic) (writing|text generation)|love[- ]letters? (program|generator|algorithm)|Strachey)\\b",
      "flags": "i",
      "basis": "field: B3 ('showcases examples of algorithmic composition, such as prose and poetry written by machines, alongside literature written with the aid of algorithmic and combinatorial devices'; 'plot generators such as William Wallace Cook’s Plotto series'; 'Christopher Strachey, who wrote a love letter program in the 1940s'); B2 (the same about paragraph). The census record's makes and holdings (rows[slug == 'literary-ai'].record.makes, .holdings)."
    },
    {
      "term": "algorithmic analysis of literature (narrative types, plot structures, the 36 dramatic situations)",
      "pattern": "\\b(Polti|(thirty-six|36) (dramatic )?situations|algorithms? to analy[sz]e literature|types of prose narratives?|plot (structures?|diagrams?|visuali[sz]ation)|narrative analysis)\\b",
      "flags": "i",
      "basis": "field: B3 ('The second story tracks the use of algorithms to analyze literature'; 'Georges Polti’s Les trente-six situations dramatiques (1895)'; 'diagrams of plot structures'; 'The interest in narrative analysis and plot visualization'). The census record's holdings ('analyses of narrative types (Fansler, Polti, Keeler's 'web-word' designs)')."
    },
    {
      "term": "the procedural lineage (the delegation of composition to devices and systems)",
      "pattern": "\\b(procedural (lineage|poetics|composition|literature|generation)|delegat\\w* (composition|authorship|writing)|composition (can be|was|is) delegated|Oulipo)\\b",
      "flags": "i",
      "basis": "archive: the census record's tll_reading for the entity ('A historical field resource for #186's procedural lineage, the delegation of composition to devices and systems, where the machine is method and, in Strachey's program, writer', rows[slug == 'literary-ai'].tll_reading), and #186's naming of the lineage (data/texts/AXN-032C-text.md). Membership by the archive's own record, at that locus."
    }
  ],
  "classes_note": "Four classes: (1) field histories of literature and computation, the exhibit's own self-description (B3, B2) and the census's area 'field-history'; (2) algorithmic composition and writing machines before machine learning, from the exhibit's first story and holdings (B3, B2; census record.makes, holdings); (3) algorithmic analysis of literature, the exhibit's second story (B3; census holdings); (4) the procedural lineage of #186, membership by the census's tll_reading for the entity. The aliases are the exhibit's names (The Literary History of Artificial Intelligence; The Literary History of AI; Literary AI, case-sensitive; its host literaryai.library.columbia.edu) and RBML, the census kind's abbreviation of its holder, case-sensitive. Columbia University, its English Department, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Digital Scholarship, the CU Narrative Intelligence Lab and the curators named on a card (Alex Gil, Melina Moe, Dennis Yi Tenen) are entities distinct from the exhibit and are not aliases; the general history of AI in literature and fiction that the composition answers (the topic named by the exhibit's title; Cambridge's AI Narratives programme, card 1) is a neighbouring entity and not a class of the exhibit. #186 (Who Is Writing for the Machines?) and #1543 (Generative Uptake), the census's anchors, are read at the passages bearing on the entity's kind: training corpora, writing addressed to a machine reader, machine composition, field histories of electronic and generative literature. Admission by reading (§3.4): D where a deposit names the entity and says something of it; R where it states a relation between the entity and an archive object; O-class where a sentence applies an archive category to one of the four classes; a bare mention, a citation line or a list of keywords is not a claim.",
  "exclude_deposits": [],
  "notes": "entity-keyed pass, 2026-11-01, on rebuild/negative-of-the-negative/v010/BRIEF-NEW-ROW-LAYER.md with the briefs it names; address 'The Literary History of Artificial Intelligence' (the-literary-history-of-artificial-intelligence-aio-20261101, OBS-9942898f4ff2, ADDR-621291ba3efe), Google AI Overview (expanded), signed out, incognito; reached 'generic'. The archive's own records of the entity (the Capture Registry's reading, findings and analysis at the capture; the traininglayerliterature.org layer census record) are ledgered beside the deposits as CAP-1-NN and TLL-NN.",
  "hop_from": [186, 1543]
}