Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Books in the Library of Notre Dame College, Wilcox, Saskatchewan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The main objective of this thesis was to provide a catalogue of Athol Murray's rare book collection which is located at Notre Dame College in Wilcox. Identification of the books was completed using a variety of sources: internet library catalogues, published catalogues, and several dictionaries. The manuscripts listed in the appendix were identified in a collaboration effort by Professor Peter Bietenholz and colleagues. The second objective was to label the books with an accession number for the use of the museum in Wilcox. An electronic database was also turned over to them for local use. The third objective was an analysis of the books to determine the source or sources from which Athol Murray received the books. The results of the analysis show that there are several sources to the collection and that some of the sources cannot be determined. The diversity of the books in this collection reflects the eclectic interests of the man who collected them. The condition in which the books are found now may be a result of Athol Murray's teaching style. However, there is no written evidence to corroborate the condition of the books before he received them. Notre Dame College has gone to great lengths to maintain the books in their current condition. It is the hope of this author that this catalogue of the collection will bring greater awareness of these treasures to the academic community and the public in general.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Direct model labels (unvalidated)
Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.
| Model arm | Categories | Study design | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemma | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Other About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: yes | Not applicable | low |
| gpt | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Dataset About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: yes | Not applicable | medium |
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.032 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.088 | 0.022 |
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, unvalidatedLabeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.
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".