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“ An Outpost of the Empire Welcomes You”

2003· book-chapter· en· W4388334161 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Carol Williams

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPolar Research and Ecology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyArchaeologyTribeFaunaFlora (microbiology)HistoryAnthropologyEcologyGeologySociology

Abstract

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Abstract Beginning with the Spanish explorations of the eighteenth century, incoming visitors exhibited an insatiable, encyclopedic appetite for images of the Northwest Coast. The prime vehicle for the collection of this visual data was geographical and geological surveys, which substantiated the topography, flora, and fauna of the landscape as well as the location and availability of fish, mineral, and timber resources.1 Prior to the mid–nineteenth century, watercolor artists commonly accompanied exploratory surveys in order to produce detailed topographical sketches of colonial lands.2 Swiss-born draftsman John Webber, for instance, accompanied British Captain James Cook on his 1776 exploration of Nootka Sound on the HMS Resolution, resulting in detailed drawings of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe of Vancouver Island’s west coast. And in 1864, artist Frederick Whymper accompanied botanist Robert Brown and his crew on a geographical survey conducted by the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.170

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0510.014

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.231 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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