Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collection of scholarly yet accessible chapters is a lasting tribute to what was an important television series conceived and broadcast by BBC Scotland.Over the last decade or so, history as entertainment has become especially popular through the medium of TV.Perhaps it is the dedicated channels which proliferate our cable and satellite listings, or perhaps it is a realization of just how fascinating the search for our historical past is, especially when accompanied by the visual richness of collected artifacts, still photographs and, for over a century now, moving images.This particular series, entitled as of the book, is also important for being a retort to the biggest and most ambitious series produced by the BBC in recent decades, Simon Schama's A History of Britain.This British broadcast has combined syndication and video/DVD release with tie-in books and a website.Both series have their starting port on Orkney, showcasing the remarkable Ring of Brodgar, Maes Howe and the Neolithic village at Skara Brae.However, many criticized Schama for ignoring Scotland until it impinged directly on England.This is a major reason why the BBC Scotland production, presented by Fiona Watson, was so well received.Gordon Menzies first produced a broadcast and accompanying book on Scotland's history in the early 1970s.His most recent team of Scottish historians is an excellent one and under the watchful guidance of Scotland's Historiographer Royal, Professor T.C. Smout, as principal historical adviser, the collection exudes credibility along with accessibility.The introductory comments by the editor make it clear that the search for Scotland's history is also a search for its identity (p.vii).Our identity is essentially multi-faceted, but we use history to gives us the roots that allow us to progress as International Review of Scottish Studies Vol. 29 2004
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.044 |
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".