Archive as Personal ‘Disastar’: The Malcolm Lowry Collection at the University of British Columbia and Beyond
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The crucial archival resource for Malcolm Lowry is the Lowry Collection within Special Collections at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). This includes published editions; critical studies; correspondence (in-coming and out-going); scholarly projects; remnants of Lowry's personal library; and miscellaneous files from family, scholars, publishers and friends. Much of the material has been digitalised, and the Collection is maintained well. Lowry's manuscripts are notoriously messy and heavily revised, but these impressive holdings have been essential to many recent critical editions of Lowry's novels, poetry, and letters; and will inform the scholarly work that still needs to be done, notably the preparation of more accurate texts to replace current flawed editions. Other materials are housed in the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Nasjonalbiblioteket (Oslo), and (more recently) at the Malcolm Lowry Centre in Liverpool; these usefully complement the primary archival resources at UBC.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.138 | 0.031 |
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".