Sixth Annual Meeting of the Alliance of Natural History Museums of Canada 2009; Canadian Association of Herpetologists Bulletin; Marine Turtle Newsletter
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Leaders of Canada's major natural history museums convened in Ottawa on 26 and 27 October 2009 for the sixth annual meeting of the Alliance of Natural History Museums of Canada (ANHMC).The network was created in 2003 to enhance collaborative work in the areas of research, collections development, and education about the natural environment.Pauline Rafferty, CEO of the Alliance and Director of the Royal British Columbia Museum, stressed the continuing national strategy for developing a collection that will represent all of Canada's biodiversity.The Alliance's 16 members from west to north to east are the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Vancouver Aquarium, the Royal Alberta Museum, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, the Manitoba Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Toronto Zoo, Montreal's nature museums (Biodôme, Insectarium, Botanical Gardens, and Planetarium), the Redpath Museum (Montreal), the New Brunswick Museum, the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, and The Rooms Provincial Museum, Newfoundland and Labrador.These institutions are responsible for preserving the record of Canada's natural history through time.Together, member museums safeguard more than 19 million catalogued specimens of plants, animals, minerals, and fossils collected over 150 years.The purpose of the national collections strategy is to ensure that this crucial record is complete and is preserved in perpetuity.At a special reception held the evening of 27 October on Parliament Hill, the third annual Bruce Naylor Award was presented.This honour recognizes significant contributions to the study of museum-based natural history in Canada.The 2009 recipient was Dr. Robert Cannings, a notable entomologist from British Columbia.Dr. Cannings' contributions as a biologist go back decades, from his early days as a naturalist and nature interpreter to his 29 years as Curator of Entomology at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria.He has authored several books, published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and written over 100 popular articles.Under his curatorship, the Museum's entomology collection has grown from a few thousand specimens to the present collection of over 250 000.He has also written text for, and contributed to the planning of, a wide range of museum
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.109 | 0.022 |
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".