Research layer · Seed v1.0

Catalogue documents

The catalogue is built in the open. Historians, archivists and developers can read the data model, the counting rules and every seed row here — the same markdown the project is built from, published in full.

Data as of Seed v1.0

Reference documents

The locked seed, the estimate methodology and the project README — what every number on the hub is checked against.

Historical Catalogue — Project README How the Jamaican Music Historical Catalogue is built: data model, counting rules, seed files, the /catalogue hub, the stats API and the phased MusicBrainz plan. docs/catalogue/README.md Master Catalogue Seed The locked seed document for the Jamaican music census: taxonomy, artist, riddim, recording, album, label and source registries with every counting rule and checksum. docs/catalogue/MASTER-CATALOGUE-SEED.md Historical Estimates Working estimates for how many songs, albums, riddims and artists Jamaica has produced — ranges by genre, the sources behind them and why they are never database counts. docs/catalogue/HISTORICAL-ESTIMATES.md

Per-artist research censuses

Artist-level discography censuses compiled from MusicBrainz, Discogs and riddim databases (Phase C input).

Vybz Kartel Complete Discography — v1.1 Research census of Vybz Kartel recordings: one row per unique recording with riddim, year, label and MusicBrainz / Discogs references. v1.1 fills 365 riddim names. docs/catalogue/vybz-kartel-complete-discography-v1.1.md Vybz Kartel Complete Discography — v1 (locked) superseded The locked v1 Vybz Kartel discography census, kept for reference. Superseded by v1.1, which fills previously unidentified riddim names. docs/catalogue/vybz-kartel-complete-discography-v1.md

Changelogs

What changed between document versions, with counts before and after.

Vybz Kartel Discography — v1.1 Changelog What changed between v1 and v1.1 of the Vybz Kartel discography census: riddim names filled, counts before and after, and how they were verified. docs/catalogue/vybz-kartel-discography-v1.1-CHANGELOG.md

Progress trackers

How much of the research the Listen library can already play.

Vybz Kartel — Listen import batches How much of the Vybz Kartel research census the Listen library actually plays, batch by batch, and the honest remainder still to import. docs/catalogue/vybz-kartel-listen-batches.md

Machine-readable counts: /api/catalogue/stats. Back to the Historical Catalogue.