GILMOR, MICHAUD and TURGEON, Canada: A People's History, Vols. I and II
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This review is only of the use of visual documentation in these publications.The freshness and excellence of the television series rested on its use of contemporary manuscripts and published material which gave the spoken words a high degree of authenticity within the historical narrative of each episode.The directors also made extensive use of the extraordinary visual documents which are available in various archives and museums in Canada and elsewhere.The two volumes under review are beautifully designed and printed on high quality paper with wide margins and generous use of space so that the text and illustrations do not crowd each other.The illustrations are in colour or black and white, depending on the original.The choice of illustrations is exciting, with many new images that have not been published before.They range from oil paintings, watercolours, and prints with a few photographs in Volume 1 to almost all photographs in Volume 2 as photography overtakes art in documenting current events.The authors have not restricted themselves only to Canadian illustrations, and groundbreaking images, such as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica take their place within the Canadian historical narrative.The images are beautifully reproduced in a variety of formats, from full pages to small boxes in the margins.Occasionally they are too small such as the map reproduced in Volume 1, page fourteen where you need a magnifying glass to see the details.Because such excellent use was made of contemporary textual material in the television series, and because so many new images were gathered, I had expectations that the latter would be used in the comprehensive and in-depth manner accorded to text.Visual documentation needs to be put into context so
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".