Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1975 the Hudson's Bay Company Archives opened for public research in Manitoba following transfer of the records from Hudson's Bay House in London.Some staff members working here today still recall the unusual way in which the documents were loaded onto the shelves in those early years.They were loaded from the bottom up, rather than the top down, in order to prevent the shelves from tipping over under the weight of the volumes.It was amazing how we got used to this arrangement and found it more difficult to adjust to the other way around -that is, scanning the shelves from the top down to locate a record -once the records were relocated to another vault area and this small glitch in an otherwise flawless transfer of the records from London was corrected.The time since the records were transferred from London has seen a growth in public interest in use of the material for research.Their accessibility in Canada, along with the development of new avenues to disperse information -the Internet and other electronic tools -has contributed to this growth, which has also increased awareness of the resources.Every year the Hudson's Bay Company Archives hosts thousands of inquiries about the records through on-site visits, remote requests, and microfilm interlibrary loan.hbca resources contribute to numerous websites, cd-roms, exhibit projects, and television documentaries.The archives receives several dozen publications every year in which the author has used the hbca as a major research component of the book or for illustration.The majority of researchers are genealogists and others doing private research.The traditional academic users from history, geography, anthropology, archaeology, and Canadian Studies fields have been joined in recent years by Native land-claims
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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 | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.639 | 0.631 |
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".