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Record W1953408396 · doi:10.1093/library/16.2.195

<i>Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium</i> . Ed. by K <scp>athryn</scp> E. P <scp>iquette</scp> and R <scp>uth</scp> D. W <scp>oodhouse</scp> . <i>A Lakota War Book from the Little Big Horn: The Pictographic Autobiography of Half Moon</i> . Ed. by C <scp>astle</scp> M <scp>c</scp> L <scp>aughlin</scp> . <i>Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium</i> . Ed. by PiquetteKathryn E.WoodhouseRuth D.London: Ubiquity Press. 2013. 342 pp. £40. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 1 909188 24 2 (Hbk); 978 1909188 25 9 (E-pub). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai. <i>A Lakota War Book from the Little Big Horn: The Pictographic Autobiography of Half Moon</i> . Ed. by McLaughlinCastle. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library and Peabody Museum Press. 2013. 355 pp. £37.95. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 0 981 8858 6 5.

2015· article· en· W1953408396 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Library · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia, Communication, and Education
Canadian institutionsToronto Public Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMesopotamiaCivilizationHistoryNarrativeArtArt historyLiteratureClassicsArchaeology

Abstract

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Over the past few decades there has developed a synthesizing ‘history of the book’ based in traditional disciplines like bibliography and narrative social and technological history, with palaeography and diplomatics hovering in the background. I say background, because so far book history's primary focus has not been on manuscripts (Greg and McKerrow disagreed sharply on whether bibliography should even treat them) but on print culture, with a strong emphasis on material production, the book trade, textual criticism, reading, and latterly the digital turn. Looking to the book's origins, the tendency has been to locate them in the clay tablets of Mesopotamia. As Andrew Robinson wrote in The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010): ‘Some time in the late 4th millennium bc, in the cities of Sumer in Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization”, the complexity of trade and administration reached a point where it outstripped the power of memory among the governing elite. To record transactions in an indisputable, permanent form became essential.’ In this interpretation, two features are essential to the book as an artefact: its content, as represented by the infant technology of writing, and its permanence, as represented in Mesopotamia by the baked clay tablets remaining in the archaeological record.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Open science, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.450
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0070.005
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.008
Science and technology studies0.0080.014
Scholarly communication0.0070.015
Open science0.0120.005
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it