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2018· other· en· W4252298021 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Geography · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographic information systemGIS DayVendorDominance (genetics)Government (linguistics)Schema (genetic algorithms)Period (music)Public participation GISInformation systemGeographyLibrary scienceWorld Wide WebGIS and public healthComputer sciencePolitical scienceCartographyMarketingBusinessInformation retrieval

Abstract

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Geographic information systems were first formally introduced with the development of the Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) in the early 1960s. The CGIS both benefitted from earlier conceptualizations and pioneered new software, hardware, and algorithms for handling spatial data. From the 1970s to the 1990s there was an emphasis on geographic information systems . GIS innovators John Coppock and David Rhind divided this era into: (i) a pioneer period from the late 1950s to the 1970s which emphasized conceptual and software development; (ii) a government‐funded experimental research period from the mid‐1970s to the early 1980s with GIS continuing to be provided on mainframe computers; (iii) a commercial period with increased involvement of both industry and government from the early 1980s to the late 1980s dominated by companies such as Esri and Intergraph; and (iv) the end of the 1980s to the mid‐1990s showing ever‐increasing academic participation together with intense vendor competition that resulted in a reduced number of GIS companies that were now producing GIS with user‐friendly interfaces on desktop computers. Also included in this period is a discussion of the impact of Michael Goodchild's seminal paper on geographic information science . This captured the imagination of the community, and journals, academic teaching, and research have all reflected this change to the present day. Two further periods are added to the Coppock–Rhind schema: (v) an account of the rise of GIScience, the reactions to its dominance, which included the introduction of public‐participation GIS, and the growth of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. This period covers the mid‐1990s to 2005. And, finally, (vi) the period from mid‐2005 to the present, which covers the worlds of volunteered GIS, web‐based mapping, mobile GIS, cloud computing, and big data. The conclusion provides a discussion of the extent to which GIS has returned to its roots in geography.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it