Clarify stable releases versus validation artifacts

README.md

@@ -23,18 +23,20 @@ family (Enevoldsen et al., [arXiv:2508.02271](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02271))
 > (6,881,277,362 tiktoken cl100k-proxy tokens) · 16 sources
 > Updated: **2026-07-26**
 
-> **v0.3.0-preview validation release** · live source-gate validation for
-> SpeakLeash shards and direct Europeana candidate data, plus the quality/diversity
-> remix workflow. This is candidate-only metadata and audit work: it does not
-> replace the v0.2.3 stable parquets.
+> **v0.3-dev experimental track** · quality/diversity workflow, source-gate
+> validation and candidate-data audits. This is development work, not a released
+> corpus version, and it does not replace the v0.2.3 stable parquets.
 
-> **v0.3.1-preview** · first reproducible Europeana direct-ingestion shard:
+> **Europeana validation artifact (2026-07-10)** · first reproducible
+> direct-ingestion shard:
 > 1,000 API records → 810 quality-gated parquet documents, each preserving
 > per-record rights and creator metadata. Stored separately under
-> `previews/v0.3.1/europeana.parquet`; the paged Search API run took 59.4 s and
-> does not alter v0.2.1 stable totals.
+> the legacy path `previews/v0.3.1/europeana.parquet`; it is not a release of the
+> full dataset and does not alter stable totals.
 
-## Versions
+## Releases
+
+### Stable releases
 
 | version | status | documents | tokens | notes |
 |---|---|---:|---:|---|
@@ -42,11 +44,16 @@ family (Enevoldsen et al., [arXiv:2508.02271](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02271))
 | `v0.2.2` | previous stable | 2,579,963 | 6.36B | Added community-contributed `govpl`: 88,190 docs / 80.7M tokens fetched directly across 133 ministry/agency subsites. |
 | `v0.2.1` | previous stable | 2,491,773 | 6.28B | 12-source stable corpus with `license` and `author` metadata columns; adds `1000_novels`. |
 | `v0.2.0` | previous stable | 2,490,773 | 6.22B | Provenance-first corpus from 11 open/official sources. |
-| `v0.3.0-preview` | validation release, candidate-only | candidate-only | TBD | Live source gates validated; Biblioteka Nauki, Europeana, and HPLT/Common Corpus expansion remain subject to per-source QA, dedup, and legal review. |
-| `v0.3.1-preview` | reproducible Europeana shard | 810 | 140,042 | 1,000 direct API records sampled; 810 passed short/language/OCR gates, with per-record rights and author metadata. |
 
 ![Stable dataset size by version](artifacts/dataset_size_by_version.png)
 
+### Development and validation artifacts
+
+| name | type | scope | notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `v0.3-dev` | experimental development track | workflow and candidate audits | Quality remix, legal-source caps, source QA, deduplication and direct-upstream ingestion. Not a corpus release. |
+| `Europeana validation artifact 2026-07-10` | reproducible sample | 810 documents / 140,042 tokens | Stored at the legacy path `previews/v0.3.1/europeana.parquet`; preserves per-record rights and creator metadata. Not a corpus release. |
+
 ### Version details
 
 #### v0.2.3 — current stable
@@ -83,17 +90,18 @@ The provenance-first baseline: 11 reviewed open or official sources,
 2,490,773 documents and 6.22B proxy tokens. This version established the
 per-source datasheet, traceable-license and exclusion-policy workflow.
 
-#### v0.3.0-preview — quality workflow
+#### v0.3-dev — experimental quality workflow
 
 Candidate-only work on a better-balanced training mixture: legal-source caps,
 temperature sampling, source QA, deduplication and direct-upstream ingestion.
 It is a workflow and validation track, not a replacement for the stable corpus.
 
-#### v0.3.1-preview — Europeana validation shard
+#### Europeana validation artifact — 2026-07-10
 
 A separate reproducible 810-document Europeana sample preserving per-record
 rights and creator metadata. It validates the direct-ingestion contract without
-changing stable-release totals.
+changing stable-release totals. `v0.3.1-preview` remains only as the legacy
+storage-path label.
 
 ## What this dataset contributes
 The raw texts come from existing open corpora (redistributed via SpeakLeash and,

src/make_docs.py

@@ -169,13 +169,17 @@ family (Enevoldsen et al., [arXiv:2508.02271](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02271))
 > (tiktoken proxy; canonical Llama-3 count at release) · {len(rows)} sources
 > Updated: **{RELEASE_DATE}**
 
-> **v0.3.0-preview in progress** · quality/diversity remix workflow, legal-style
-> downweighting, and filtered contemporary Polish web candidates. Biblioteka
-> Nauki and Europeana are prepared as source-ingestion PR targets with
-> per-document `license` and `author` metadata, but they are not part of this
-> stable parquet release yet.
+> **v0.3-dev experimental track** · quality/diversity workflow, source-gate
+> validation and candidate-data audits. This is development work, not a released
+> corpus version, and it does not replace the v{VERSION} stable parquets.
 
-## Versions
+> **Europeana validation artifact (2026-07-10)** · a separate reproducible
+> 810-document direct-ingestion sample stored under the legacy path
+> `previews/v0.3.1/europeana.parquet`. It is not a full dataset release.
+
+## Releases
+
+### Stable releases
 
 | version | status | documents | tokens | notes |
 |---|---|---:|---:|---|
@@ -183,10 +187,16 @@ family (Enevoldsen et al., [arXiv:2508.02271](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02271))
 | `v0.2.2` | previous stable | 2,579,963 | 6.36B | Added community-contributed `govpl`: 88,190 docs / 80.7M tokens. |
 | `v0.2.1` | previous stable | 2,491,773 | 6.28B | 12-source corpus with `license` and `author` metadata columns; added `1000_novels`. |
 | `v0.2.0` | previous stable | 2,490,773 | 6.22B | Provenance-first corpus from 11 open/official sources. |
-| `v0.3.0-preview` | workflow + candidate data in progress | candidate-only | TBD | Biblioteka Nauki, Europeana, and HPLT/Common Corpus style expansion pending per-source QA, dedup, and legal review. |
 
 ![Stable dataset size by version](artifacts/dataset_size_by_version.png)
 
+### Development and validation artifacts
+
+| name | type | scope | notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `v0.3-dev` | experimental development track | workflow and candidate audits | Quality remix, legal-source caps, source QA, deduplication and direct-upstream ingestion. Not a corpus release. |
+| `Europeana validation artifact 2026-07-10` | reproducible sample | 810 documents / 140,042 tokens | Stored at the legacy path `previews/v0.3.1/europeana.parquet`; preserves per-record rights and creator metadata. Not a corpus release. |
+
 ### Version details
 
 #### v0.2.3 — current stable
@@ -221,16 +231,17 @@ and recomputed all release statistics from parquet files.
 The provenance-first baseline: 11 reviewed open or official sources,
 2,490,773 documents and 6.22B proxy tokens.
 
-#### v0.3.0-preview — quality workflow
+#### v0.3-dev — experimental quality workflow
 
 Candidate-only work on a better-balanced training mixture: legal-source caps,
 temperature sampling, source QA, deduplication and direct-upstream ingestion.
 It is not a replacement for the stable corpus.
 
-#### v0.3.1-preview — Europeana validation shard
+#### Europeana validation artifact — 2026-07-10
 
 A separate reproducible 810-document Europeana sample preserving per-record
 rights and creator metadata. It does not change stable-release totals.
+`v0.3.1-preview` remains only as the legacy storage-path label.
 
 ## What this dataset contributes
 The raw texts come from existing open corpora (redistributed via SpeakLeash and,