The Music Never Stopped: A Grateful Data Compendium with a Category-Theoretic Interpretation

We present a modular, citation-bound data compendium for the Grateful Dead universe — shows, songs, performances, personnel timelines, venues, recordings, and reception — and a category-theoretic interpretation of the performance graph. The work is grounded in the archival reality that Grateful Dead history is both institutional and participatory: UCSC's Grateful Dead Archive and th...