The Newfoundland Museum, St John's, Possessions: A Collection in Progress
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The title Possessions: A Collection in Progress accurately reflects the essence of both the physical and visual components of an informal exhibit located on the third floor of the Newfoundland Museum on Duckworth Street, St John's, Newfoundland. The thematic focus of this exhibit, accordingly, centres around the everyday common possessions once owned, crafted, and used by Newfoundland fishing families during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there is no immediate reason offered as to why this particular era has been chosen to be displayed, I suspect there are a couple of explanations for its emergence at this time. With the demise of Newfoundland's fishing industry and many of the associated traditional ways of life related to that industry, a variety of aged textiles and materials (including wood, fabrics and metals) have since fallen in danger of deterioration or eventual destruction. The exhibit provides a timely opportunity for the rescue, conservation and presentation of these vanishing older forms of fishery-related material culture. In essence, the exhibit is a material commemoration of the bygone era of the cod, whaling and sealing industries displayed through artifacts and contextual, partially re-created buildings and stage settings. Additionally, Possessions also coincided with the 1997 John Cabot 500 celebrations and provided the influx of visitors and tourists to the province an opportunity to see a more familiar and less romanticized aspect of past life in Newfoundland.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.106 | 0.011 |
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".