Understanding how Ye Archive evaluates records, source claims, and confidence.
Music remains the primary organizing spine of the archive. All other domain layers—fashion, brand, product, business, visuals, live events, sources, and eras—exist to provide temporal and thematic context to the music catalog.
The archive uses a structured data model (Schema V1) to ensure every entity is citeable. This allows us to track explicit relationships between tracks, albums, people, and their production context.
Unlike traditional archives, we track evidence at the field level. A track title, release date, or role can have its own source claim. Some fields are fully validated, while others are still being mapped from our legacy dataset.
Every archive fact is supported by a source claim. We rely on explicit IDs and direct source attribution rather than loose text matching or manual inference.
We assign confidence states to data points. We believe transparency is better than hidden ambiguity, especially for unreleased or rumored material.
Unreleased, leaked, demo, and alternate records are treated as metadata-only entries. They carry lower confidence labels unless supported by primary, high-tier documentation.
The archive does not host copyrighted audio, leak files, unauthorized media, or download links. We are a research-focused metadata repository.
Data coverage is expanding. You may find gaps in provenance or incomplete entity linking as we continue to migrate and validate the full dataset.
All 15 currently catalogued releases are sourced from Apple Music streaming catalog — a primary, first-party source. Every claim in the current dataset therefore carries confirmed confidence. As the archive expands to include unreleased material, community-tracked credits, or secondary sources, confidence levels will range from documented to community, rumored, and unverified.