Front Matter
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In general, the rules followed by the Biographical Dictionary of Canada have been applied in this work.Some proper names may be spelled differently from chapter to chapter.For instance, Dugua de Monts has a number of variants (Du Gua, du Gua, Mons, Monts); Champlain is sometimes Samuel Champlain, sometimes Samuel de Champlain -the particle having appeared during his lifetime.The index notes these variants, which result from the variety of sources used.The captions accompanying the illustrations are as explicit as possible, and the provenance of the illustrations is given at the back of the book.Since Champlain's maps come from various sources, we have created a list with references (pp.372-73).Finally, a complete chronology is included; its purpose is less to detail Champlain's activities than to place them within their context.Editions du Septentrion thanks the Canada Council for the Arts for its support in the publication and translation of this book; the Societe de developpement des enterprises culturelles du Quebec (SODEC) for its assistance; and the Government of Quebec for its Tax Credit Program.We are also grateful for the financial support of the Government of Canada through its Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
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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 | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.938 | 0.913 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".