Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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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 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.591 | 0.521 |
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".