Indigenous Historical Periodicals Dataset
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a listing of Indigenous periodicals (newspapers, newsletters, magazines, and journals), arranged by title. It primarily includes material published in Canada, but also encompasses some titles from American states bordering Canada. The scope aims to include publications by Indigenous communities and organizations, and to exclude known material produced by governments and non-Indigenous organizations. The inventory represents known publications across Canada based on sources from OCLC, and known listings of these publications within the community. All items in the list are held in Canadian libraries, archives, and museums. The accuracy of these lists is unknown and not validated by Indigenous communities to our knowledge. The source data lists reflect the work of academic institutions describing the materials in their holdings. Indigenous communities may be listed as the primary creator, but this can only be validated upon investigation with the source materials and with Indigenous communities. The intent is threefold: to promote a list of Indigenous publications, and where they can be consulted or searched; to track digitization work by Canadian institutions and groups and facilitate digitization efforts in collaboration with relevant Indigenous communities; and to enable easy additions to, and corrections of, the list. It is important to note that this is not a search tool for the contents of the publications, but merely an inventory of titles, along with locations of the print and digital holdings. Data headings are Title, Title Family, In Scope, Status, Source of Information, Publisher/Issuing Org., Place of Publication, Province/State, Country, Print Run/Holdings, Notes, ISSN, OCLC Identifiers, Online, Format, Digitization Status, Canadian Repository Holdings, Language. For definitions of the headings, see The Dataset Document Workbook. This list stems from efforts by the Indigenous Historical Publications Working Group, working on behalf of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). Input by Indigenous individuals, communities, organizations and publishers, as well as all researchers, libraries, archives, and museums is eagerly sought and welcomed. Please contact us for more information, comments, or to provide updates.
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.011 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.076 | 0.050 |
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".