Bibliographic record
Abstract
What does the public want and expect from archives?Pollsters report that there is an overwhelming consensus that old things should be kept.But as Jack Jedwab reports in his background paper for this Canadian Archives Summit, people are not so sure what to make of the archives themselves as repositories of our documentary heritage.Far too many of those polled are essentially unaware of what archives do, and only a small percentage of them have knowingly engaged with an archives.The polls tell us that this is particularly true for Library and Archives Canada (LAC).There is nonetheless a lot to build on in the popular consensus about the worthiness of archival recordkeeping.Over the past decade, a group of prominent Canadian historians oversaw a project (Canadians and Their Pasts) to interview some 3,400 Canadians about their consciousness of history.They discovered that a large proportion of them integrate historical consciousness into their identities and are likely to turn to institutions of memory to connect to their past and to invigorate the present and future.My own experience has confirmed that.Several years ago, I was part of a group that attempted to keep the United Church Archives at the University of Toronto.The groundswell of support that we encountered was astonishing, but so was the diversity of that support.People from widely different backgrounds came forward to proclaim the value of that institution for their own work -not just the professional historians and genealogists, as you might expect, but also novelists, journalists, artists, architects, musicologists, undergraduate students, and many more.I wonder to what extent archives recognize the breadth of their potential constituency and the importance of working with all of its members.Certainly over the past decade, the wave of digitization of certain archival records has encouraged an archival populism that invites Canadians to access the records Jack Jedwab, "Public Awareness and the Image of Archives," Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiennes: Towards a New Blueprint for Canada's Recorded Memory, special edition (Spring 204): 68-72.
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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 | 0.027 | 0.045 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.044 | 0.034 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.035 |
| Research integrity | 0.018 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.007 |
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".