Review of <i>The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan: A LivingLegacy</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Saskatchewan celebrated its centennial as a Canadian province in 2005, and the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan resulted from the admirable desire to make a lasting commemoration of that milestone. When one considers that the project had a tortured history of chronic underfunding, and, as a result, failed to engage many in the scholarly community, the final product, flawed though it might be, is still a remarkable success. The goal of the Encyclopedia, publisher David Gauthier informs readers in an introductory preamble, was to create "a substantial memorial to the people of Saskatchewan that highlights their achievements and provide a comprehensive synthesis of the people, places and events that have helped to shape the province." The resultant reference work contains over 2,000 entries and more than 1,000 photographs in just under 1,100 pages of text. Twenty-one "theme essays" written by "noted experts" (a questionable claim in some instances) provide an overview of such broad topics as aboriginal peoples, women, arts and culture, labor, and science and technology. The individual entries indeed offer a potpourri for the inquisitive-from the Autonomy Bills of 1905 and the Avalokitesvara Buddhist Temple Society to the Trans-Hudson Orogen (the geological remains of a 1.8 billion-year-old mountain range) and Treaty 6. In a project of such magnitude compressed into a single volume, it is no wonder some entries one might have expected to see had to be left out and others reduced in scale. Those were difficult editorial decisions. But the readily apparent inconsistency in the selection of topics covered is disturbing.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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".