Bibliographic record
Abstract
SIMONS" LECTURES AT BETHEL College, Kansas, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the migration of Mennonites from Imperial Russia to the North American interior.As the Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg, I had invited the historians at Bethel College to co-host a conference that would revisit the migration of the 1870s with themes of social and cultural history.My friends at Bethel, however, turned the invitation around and asked me to visit them with a lecture series instead.Those lectures, given in November 1999, were eclectic in nature.Their purpose was to seek new ways of understanding the nature of the Mennonite society that was transplanted across the ocean, and which took root in Manitoba, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota.They were shaped by my love of the ordinary person's reflections, imaginations, work, play, and relationships in the everyday context and the idea that these are the sites in which culture is born and expressed.I am mindful of the skillful scholars-church historians, local historians, sociologists, geographers-who have laid the groundwork for the study of this migration.I make unabashed use of their work.The approach of this work is based on social and cultural history.
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.
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 | 0.003 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.388 | 0.221 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".