Bibliographic record
Abstract
English Abstract Forty years after its creation, RILM (Repertoire international de litterature musicale) remains the leading indexing service for music literature. Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, the Editor-in-Chief of RILM, looks back on the developments in the field and looks forward to the changes that the future will bring to access and understanding. French Abstract Quarante ans apres sa creation, le RILM (Repertoire international de litterature musicale) demeure le principal service d'indexation de la litterature musicale. Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, editeur en chef du RILM, revient sur les developpements dans le domaine et anticipe les changements que le futur apportera aux modalites d'acces et a la comprehension. German Abstract Auch vierzig Jahre nach der Grundung ist und bleibt RILM (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale) die fuhrende Bibliographie fur Musilditeratur. Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, die Chefredakteurin von RILM, blickt auf die Entwicklungen dieses Bereiches zuruck und wagt einen Ausblick auf zukunftige Veranderungen. ********** Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, more commonly known as RILM, is 40 years old. (2) In these four decades, the project has abstracted and indexed music research from around the world, compiling a database that contains more than half a million bibliographic records. The increasing relevance of the database for music researchers is clear: use of RILM is at an all-time high. It seems an auspicious moment to reflect upon the past, the present, and the future of RILM and its role in music research, especially in the context of the growing profusion of online information. Originally a pilot project of the American Council on Learned Societies, RILM was founded in 1966 at the City University of New York by the renowned musicologist Barry S. Brook. A man of expansive vision who had a hand in the establishment of all four R-Projects, (3) Brook imagined an abstracted, indexed bibliography of all significant writings about music and related disciplines from all over the world. In other words, RILM was to be a tool providing total bibliographic control over the world's research on music. RILM's mission remains the same today as it was when Brook founded it, with the crucial difference that--though the ultimate goal of complete global coverage remains elusive-RILM is getting ever closer to achieving it. The database, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, includes publications in over 150 languages. It is classified by main topic, and includes original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, abstracts--or summaries--in English, and detailed subject indexing. Here is an entry: Title: Novelty that must be subtle: Continuity, innovation and improvisation in North Indian music Author: Napier, John Journal title: Critical studies in improvisation/Etudes critiques en improvisation Volume: 1 Number: 3 Year: 2006 URL: http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca//index.php/csieci/ article/view/55/104 Special features: bibliography, discography, transcription Language: English Document type: Article in a periodical Country of publication: Canada Classification: Ethnomusicology--Asia Abstract: Investigates the interrelation between two aspects of Hindustani music that at first might appear to occupy opposite poles of creativity and constraint: (1) the soloist's construction of melody and the interpretation of this as improvised; and (2) sath-sangat, the imitative instrumental accompaniment afforded such melodies when performed by vocalists. The conventional description of Hindustani music as improvisatory downplays the importance of the representation of fixed materials, underemphasizing the projection of tradition and transmission. In turn, sath-sangat has a homologous relationship to pedagogy. …
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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 | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.177 | 0.078 |
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".