Oil Shows, Rodeos, and UFOs: A Canadian Prairie Sheet Music Collection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
English Abstract: This paper discusses a project undertaken at the University of Alberta Libraries to create metadata for a notable sheet music collection: the Walder G. W. White Sheet Music Collection, which is currently in the process of being described, digitised, and promoted. The history of the collection is discussed, its contents, and significance as a resource for researching the musical culture of the Canadian Prairie provinces (namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, collectively known as “the prairies”). Select items and personalities contained within the collection are highlighted to examine elements of twentieth-century Canadian prairie society and culture. The process of preparing and creating metadata for harvesting by the Sheet Music Consortium is also outlined. This paper will help inform other projects involving the creation of metadata for sheet music, and provide insight into the Canadian music publishing industry, and its interaction with Canada, and Canadian prairie culture. French Abstract: Cet article decrit un projet entrepris par les bibliotheques de l’Universite de l’Alberta et consistant a creer des metadonnees pour une importante collection de musique en feuilles : la collection Walder G.W. White, qui est actuellement en train d’etre decrite, numerisee et mise en valeur. L’article aborde l’histoire de la collection, son contenu, ainsi que son importance en tant que ressource pour la recherche sur la culture musicale des provinces des Prairies canadiennes (soit l’Alberta, la Saskatchewan et le Manitoba, collectivement appeles « les Prairies »). Un certain nombre de documents et de personnalites figurant dans la collection sont mis en evidence pour examiner des elements de la societe et de la culture canadiennes des Prairies au XXe siecle. Le processus de preparation et de creation des metadonnees pour le moissonnage par le Sheet Music Consortium est egalement decrit. Cet article pourra etre utile aux autres projets de creation de metadonnees pour la musique en feuilles et permettra de donner un apercu de l’industrie canadienne de l’edition musicale, ainsi que de son interaction avec le Canada et la culture des Prairies canadiennes. German Abstract: Dieser Artikel erortert das Projekt der University of Alberta Libraries zur derzeit laufenden Ersch -liesung, Digitalisierung und Bekanntmachung der bedeutenden Notensammlung von Walder G. W. White. Die Geschichte dieser Sammlung wird hinsichtlich ihrer Inhalte und ihrer Bedeutung als Quelle fur die Erforschung der Musikkultur der kanadischen Prarieprovinzen (also Alberta, Saskatchewan und Manitoba) ausfuhrlich dargestellt. Ausgewahlte Medien und in der Sammlung reprasentierte Personen werden hervorgehoben, um anhand ihrer beispielhaft die kanadische Prariegesellschaft und -kultur zu beleuchten. Erganzend wird das Vorgehen bei der Vorbereitung und Erarbeitung der Metadaten fur das Harvesting durch das Sheet Music Consortium erlautert. Der Beitrag stellt somit einerseits eine Hilfe fur andere Projekte im Umfeld der Erschliesung von Metadaten fur Musikalien dar, wahrend er andererseits Einblicke in die kanadische Musikverlegerwelt und deren Bezuge zu Kanada sowie in die kanadische Prariekultur bietet.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".