Bibliographic record
Abstract
The idea for this book began while co-directing the public history project and website "Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred 'Boomer' Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars."That project would never have happened without the trust and generosity of Pat and Blake Harding, who were willing to share their carefully preserved scrapbooks on the Chatham Coloured All-Stars and sports career of their father and father-in-law, Wilfred "Boomer" Harding, as well as their time and commitment to see the project through.I never would have imagined a chance meeting at a history event I attended in Chatham in 2015 would lead to such a journey, but I am so grateful for it.I am privileged to have co-directed the project with colleagues in Leddy Library, University of Windsor, Heidi Jacobs and Dave Johnston, whose vision and expertise helped grow the project in ways I could not have done on my own.The support of the Chatham Sports Hall of Fame, the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the University of Windsor was instrumental, along with the many University of Windsor students and others who worked on it.A special thank you to all the families of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars who were willing to share their stories to make the history and memories of this team come to life once again.As I turned to the book, I was grateful to have the help of Ron Leary, whose research assistance went far beyond what I might have expected or imagined.His keen eye and research instincts (along with his tolerance for reading newspapers on microfilm) helped me move the story backward and forward in time, tracking clues and finding answers.As well, his help getting the manuscript ready for publication was also invaluable.I had several great student research assistants including Joshua Deehan, Julienne Rousseau, and Willow Key.I also had other research help from Linda Bunn, who kindly volunteered to search early newspapers in Windsor and Essex County for reports on Black baseball teams.I received assistance from librarians and staff at the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum (particularly Dorothy Wright Wallace and Samantha Meredith),
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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 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.440 | 0.343 |
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".