Navigating and Expanding the MLA International Bibliography
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From an annual printed volume, the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association has gradually developed into a multi-volume printed edition and a vast online database (as of 2009, the print edition will be discontinued). Traditionally compiled from a master list of periodicals, it has given birth to a hybrid classification system, part language-based and part geography-based, which does not easily accommodate peripatetic or multilingual writers, changing definitions of national literatures, or consistency of indexing over time. It is best suited to the English-speaking reader dealing with print materials relating to major European literatures and languages. Efforts are underway to address Web-based materials more effectively, but the bibliography could be made more serviceable to a wider range of users with a translatable indexing system and with criteria better adapted to the needs of smaller languages, literatures, and cultures. It could be supplemented by a bibliographic wiki, separate from the bibliography but useable as a source for materials and commentary.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.037 | 0.034 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it