Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection: Grant Proposal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Indiana University Digital Library Program proposes digitizing and offering on the World Wide Web nearly 18,000 Kodachrome slides that comprise the majority of the lifework of Charles Weever Cushman , a remarkable amateur photographer.The project will accomplish two goals: first, it will preserve and digitize an astonishing collection of vernacular color photography from a time when most images were black and white; and second, the project will provide a model for building a database from which to create a finding aid.Smaller museums, historical societies, and public libraries that may own similar collections of unsorted, uncataloged materials-and have no expertise in creating electronic systems to organize them-will be able to refer to the Cushman Project model for assistance in creating a database that can be used to generate Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids.For more than fifty years, from 1917 through 1969, Mr. Cushman photographed an amazing cross section of American life.From Indiana farmlands to New York City street scenes, from the mansions of the best-known Chicago figures to the storefronts of modest shopkeepers, Mr. 7/12/21, 9:50 AM
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.483 | 0.255 |
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".