Eva Mackey, The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Narrows Company at the recommendation of the Department of Indian Affairs and on the order of the Privy Council. Through interviews with Band members the authors reconstruct a story of misinformation, deception, and failure to act in the Band's best interests. The primarily oral character of the sources is clearly apparent in this chapter. The au thors have not p rocessed and homogenized the voices until they sound like A. J. T. Taylor's correspondence or a Vancouver Sun editorial. As public history workers struggle for ways to fairly and powerfully represent First Nations points-of-view in writings and exhibits, it is useful to have d'Acres and Luxton's example of one way to do it. Like the stylized lions on the Stanley Park approach to the Bridge, the book's design is Art Deco in inspiration. For the most part, it is exquisitely realized. Wonderful platinum-sheen pages set off the black and white photographs. Occasionally the designer Leon Phillips sacrifices content to design, when text is overprinted on too busy a background illustration. Strangely, the photographs, while carefully reproduced, are not identified by photographers. Illustrations set in the body of the text are usually identified with general statements such as Second Narrows Bridge or Hoover Dam, without dates or sources. This limits the book's usefulness for research, which is unfortunate when clearly the authors intended to (and largely succeeded in) producing more than a lovely coffee-table book about a beautiful bridge.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.001 |
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".