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Record W4414142513 · doi:10.15353/acmla.n176.6747

State of the Bulletin

2025· article· en· W4414142513 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Martin Chandler, Saman Goudarzi, Meg Miller, Paul Pival

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin - Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of ManitobaMcMaster UniversityCape Breton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsState (computer science)Work (physics)

Abstract

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Author's note For those who were able to attend CARTO 2025 in Kingston, Ontario, you'll have an idea of some of the work being done for the Bulletin at present. This is a recap and expansion of that work for those who couldn't attend, and to add to the record. The discussion covered the past, present, and future considerations for the journal of our association, as well as its status as the preeminent journal of geospatial librarianship in Canada.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
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 score0.268
Threshold uncertainty score0.898

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.006
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0160.005
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2680.146

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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.188 · 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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