Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection, held at Carleton University in its Special Collections and Archives, is a rare and fascinating resource. The seventy thousand photographs and accompanying text, dating from 1917 to 1991, originally belonged to the Soviet Novosti Press Agency (APN) bureau located on Charlotte Street in Ottawa, but were hurriedly gathered up by Carleton library staf f in late 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the press bureau closed up shop. Part of a campaign to persuade Westerners, and particularly Canadians, to view the USSR in a more positive light, the Ottawa APN distributed these photos and press releases to media outlets, or ganizations, and individuals across Canada. The collection of fers historians a glimpse of the constructed nature of the Soviet self-image, of ficial Soviet views on international relations during the Cold War, and attempts to soften antiSoviet opinions in Canada. In “Mirror Images,” Jennifer Anderson argues that the collection deserves to be better known amongst historians of Cold War Canada and international relations, and that the general public would also be intrigued by an exhibition, built around ideology, perception, and image-construction in the Cold War. RESUME La collection de photographies de la Novosti Press Agency, conservee aux Special Collections and Archives de l’Universite Carleton, est une ressource rare et fascinante. Les 70 000 photographies et les textes d’accompagnement, qui datent de 1917 a 1991, appartenaient autrefois au Bureau de la Soviet Novosti Press Agency (APN), situe sur la rue Charlotte a Ottawa, mais le personnel de la bibliotheque Carleton a du recuperer ce materiel rapidement vers la fin de l’annee 1991 avec la dissolution de l’Union sovietique et la fermeture du Bureau a Ottawa. Fonde en partie pour encourager les Occidentaux, en particulier les Canadiens, a voir l’URSS d’un meilleur œil, l’APN d’Ottawa distribuait ces photographies et ces communiques de presse aux medias, aux or ganisations et aux individus a travers le Canada. La collection offre aux historiens un apercu de la construction de l’image que se donnait l’Union sovietique, les points de vues sovietiques of ficiels sur les relations internationales pendant la Guerre froide et les ef forts pour adoucir les opinions anti-sovie- tiques au Canada. Dans son texte « Mirror Images », Jennifer Anderson soutient que la collection merite d’etre mieux connue des historiens de la Guerre froide au Canada et des historiens qui s’interessent aux relations internationales et que le grand public pourrait aussi etre interesse par une exposition concue autour de l’ideologie, de la perception et de la construction de l’identite pendant la Guerre froide.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".