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Record W4313579673 · doi:10.5860/crln.84.1.43

Internet Reviews

2023· article· en· W4313579673 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.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCollege & Research Libraries News · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersJohns Hopkins University
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE) presents itself, accurately, as a national resource "produced by, for and about the people of a single country, charting its events, culture, history and landscape."Based on a print reference project initiated in 1985, TCE has evolved into a bilingual online portal since 2013 and provides an accessible starting point for Canadian history and memory to a wide array of stakeholders.The encyclopedia project is maintained by the not-for-profit organization Historica Canada and is slated to remain freely available.TCE appears rooted in a centrist ideal of Canadian nationhood and explicitly denies political party connections, while also extensively covering topics that challenge and complicate the Canadian national project.Users will experience TCE as an assemblage of varied elements and formats based on multitude of topical articles but also including timelines, photo galleries, maps, videos, pedagogical study guides, and quizzes.All these elements are drawn into thematic collections, which can vary from the name of a province or political party to broader interdisciplinary topics such as women in STEM.One can search for individual keywords, but the site appears optimized for serendipitous browsing and discovery according to broad categories of "People," "Places," and "Things."Thematic collections vary greatly in scope depending on the topic and the available documentation, putting to good use the plentiful navigational facets.TCE prioritizes relevance for classroom education, and most collections include at least one printable study or curricular guide.Content level is designed for a general audience, and many articles include references to published or web sources.Those seeking to use this encyclopedia for scholarly purposes may find occasional frustrations, as when photographs are fully identified as part of articles but not when in standalone photo galleries.While there are many digitized interviews, documents, and photos to be found in TCE, it is not intended as federated archival repository.TCE has evolved from the stability of a static reference work into something more dynamic and at times slightly chaotic.The interface design is attractive and in line with prevailing standards for discoverability and accessibility (including sign-in account allowing saved searches and links for citing and sharing in many instances).With more than 3,000 authors of individual articles, there appear to be opportunities for communities throughout Canada to be represented and to have a potential role in editing or writing, not to mention contributing stories and suggestions/corrections.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, 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 score0.497
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.009

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 head0.192
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.184 · 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