Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1990 I became the Acting Director of the Cataloguing Branch at the National Library of Canada (NLC). NLC was an active early member of the ISSN international program, Canada having acceded to the ISSN Statutes under the auspices of Unesco in the 1970's. In that capacity I started to represent Canada on the ISSN Governing Board. NLC was very interested in international standards work, and had already gained a significant reputation as a leader in this area. I only continued that leadership tradition, and with the support of NLC, I became the Vice Chair and then the Chair of the Board. I was privileged to have played this role and I will always remember the many committed and passionate colleagues from around the world that I had the honour to meet and to work collaboratively with in order to plan the future directions of ISSN. I was also very fortunate to have had the guidance of two very intelligent, proactive Directors of the International ISSN Centre: Mme Suzanne Santiago and Mme Francoise Pellé. The ISSN program would not be the global success it has become without the total commitment and direction provided by these remarkable Directors.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".