A book review of Ultra Libris: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada. By Rowland Lorimer. Toronto, Canada: ECW Press, 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 9781770410763
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rowland Lorimer traces the continuous transformation of Canada's book market from the 1970s to the 2010s, from a wholly dependent market on imported authors, books and topics to a market characterized by a presence of books written by Canadian authors on Canadian topics and other topics that Canadians are interested in.He also documents the cooperation among various agents in Canada's book industry, including governments at federal and local levels, foreign and domestic publishers, and other institutions and organizations supporting books and publishing.As he mentions, the understanding of the transformation of Canada's book market would not be comprehensive without a thorough analysis of the government policies on books and publishing, its connection to international ideas of cultural diversity, the contribution of publishing to capital accumulation and proliferation, as well as the technological revolution and its far-reaching impacts on publishing processes, techniques, and the public's reading habits.Among these important topics, the cultural policy for supporting book publishing in Canada remains Lorimer's foremost concern.Canada's book market is up against the double invasion of industrial mergers and cultural integration led by the United States.To efface marketization impact on domestic book publishing, the Canadian government adopts support policies at the institutional and economic level to maintain its own market within the global competition and ensure cultural independence.To specify, on the one hand, institutional support includes the amendment of The Copyright Act, the signing of The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and the institutional support to the education industry.Thus, foreign publishers are kept within limits and the independence and integrity of the Canadian publishing industry are preserved.On the other hand, economic support includes the Canada Book Fund from the Department of Canadian
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.021 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.009 |
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.
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".