Bibliographic record
Abstract
To have been born in Glasgow in the early twentieth century is not seen as a recommendation for a budding musician. Paris would carry weight, or Dublin, in the midst of a great literary revival. But much of the literature of Scotland at the time is described uncharitably as of ‘the kailyard school’, the kale yard being where coarse greens were grown at the back of small, self-satisfied homes, where folk were ‘douce’ and ‘couthy’, humour was ‘pawky’; sentiment ruled over realism, and the parochial over the international. In this school, J. M. Barrie has been unfairly cast as the leading dominie, when, in reality, the bulk of the ‘kailyard’ publications were produced for the English, not the Scottish market. As for the radical significance of Conan Doyle, R. L. Stevenson, George Douglas, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, young MacDiarmid and others, it has yet to be fully understood outside Scottish literary circles. As for Glasgow, it was an industrial city, wealthy and poor in equally extravagant measure; filthy with the smog and smuts of millions of coal fires; lurid with the flares of the Bessemer Converters at the mammoth steel works; and with its ears ringing with the sound of riveting in some of the greatest shipyards of the world. These stereotypical views held sway even in Scotland well into the latter half of the twentieth century, since when appreciation of the artistic life in Glasgow in the early 1900s has largely centred round the visual arts. ‘The Glasgow Boys’ and the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh now command international respect. But of music we hear and read practically nothing, and what we do read is not encouraging: Mr Scott, the only Scottish composer technically abreast of the highest developments of modern music in Europe and the only composer today who is endeavouring to establish a Scottish national idiom – who, in other words, has got beyond kailyairdism. Thus Hugh MacDiarmid, writing from a position of ignorance, apparently unaware of the work of J. B. McEwen or young Chisholm, but none the less imparting a home truth. It was not only the composers who were lacking. Scotland had no full-time professional orchestra, and professional opera and ballet came only with touring companies.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.090 | 0.025 |
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".