<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.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.109 | 0.071 |
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".