Shipboard Printing on the Franklin Search Expeditions: A Bibliographical Study of the Plover Press
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ships that ventured into the Arctic in the I850s searching for Sir John Franklin were not the first British ships to carry presses on board.The short, quirky roster of early British shipboard imprints includes a book of Italian poems by Giovanni Fantoni printed on the Formidable in I782, an English translation of Spanish speeches on the Inquisition printed aboard the Caledonia in 18I3, The bloody journal kept by William Davidson on board a Russian pirate in the year z78p, also printed on the Caledonia in I8I2, and a broadside recruiting Creek warriors to join in the battle against the Americans printed off the Florida coast in 1814 on board the Tonnant.'The Formidable had confiscated its press as booty from the French Ville de Paris while the latter was stationed of~f the American coast during the Revolutionary War.The press on board the Caledonia
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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 | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.038 | 0.101 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.002 |
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".