A Select Bibliography of Canadian Picture Books for Children by Aboriginal Authors
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Abstract
Resume: La presente contribution propose une selection d'ouvrages pour l'enfance et l'adolescence parus depuis 1967 et dont les auteurs sont d'origine autochtone. Ce choix est tire d'une bibliographie qui se veut exhaustive, entreprise en 2002 et a la veille d'etre completee. Les œuvres recensees ont ete publiees par trois editeurs amerindiens et quatre maisons d'edition traditionnelles dites etablies. A la difference d'autres bibliographies qui incluent les livres sur le sujet sans preciser l'identite des auteurs, tous les ecrivains retenus ici s'identifient expressement comme autochtones. Il est a esperer que la publication de la bibliographie exhaustive permettra d'assurer une meilleure connaissance de la production litteraire pour la jeunesse chez les Premieres Nations. Summary: This select bibliography is a sampling of the comprehensive descriptive bibliography of children's and young adult books Aboriginal authors published since 1967 which the authors have been working on since 2002 and are close to completing. This present bibliography focuses on the front and back lists of seven publishers that publish Canadian Aboriginal children's literature, three of which are Aboriginal publishers and the remaining four general and/or mainstream publishers. By including only authors who self-identify as Aboriginal, this resource stands apart from existing ones that use a by and about selection criteria (by and about Aboriginal peoples, First Nations, Natives, etc.,), which allows for the inclusion, without identification, of books non-Aboriginal authors. The authors hope that this select bibliography and especially the comprehensive one to come will be a useful resource for educators, librarians, students, community groups, parents, researchers, writers, and anyone else with an interest in Aboriginal literature but who have struggled to identify Aboriginal-authored children's literature for teaching, studying, research, and enjoyment purposes.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.036 | 0.115 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.094 | 0.020 |
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".