Beyond the Interview: A Historian’s Journey into Community Storytelling
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Built from 1954 to 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project that linked the United States and Canada was the largest waterway project ever completed by two nations. Until recently, however, the stories of the men who participated in its creation remained largely untold. My efforts to record and share the experiences of these men took me out of the realm of traditional academic history and, by way of oral history, into storytelling. My newfound roles as oral historian and storyteller necessitated that I not only conduct scrupulous, text-based research but also listen to, capture, and transmit the voices of the men who shared their stories with me. This journey allowed me to grow more comfortable sharing my research with the public, and this autoethnography traces my transformation from an academic historian to a storyteller in my own right.
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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 | 0.026 | 0.036 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.044 | 0.047 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.023 | 0.023 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".