Prosecraft

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Prosecraft is a so-called 'linguistic database of literary prose' built on the texts of over 25,000 novels by thousands of different authors.

Benji Smith, who is behind Prosecraft and its sister company Shaxpir, used the content of books by Stephen King, Nora Roberts, Neil Gaiman, Angie Thomas, Terry Pratchett, John le CarrΓ©, and others, to build a database of novels that could be used to analyse their world count, story arc and 'vividness', amongst other criteria.

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The Prosecraft fiction analytics database is seen to suffer from several significant transparency limitations.

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The Prosecraft fiction analytics database raised copyright concerns and potentially compromised authors' creative rights by analysing and categorising published works without explicit permission, potentially leading to the unintended exposure of writing styles and techniques. 

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Type: Data
Published: August 2023
Last updated: October 2024