Social relationships and digital relationships: rethinking the database at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre
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Abstract
In this paper, we seek to unravel and interrogate the aesthetics of the museum database, and the links between digital and social relationships within the museum and beyond, using as a case study the development of an integrated database system for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, or Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS). The VKS database both draws relationships of knowledge, practice, and collection into view and generates connections in a newly national trilingual space. We ask: What are the implications of mapping the social onto the digital and vice versa? What is the efficacy of digital connectivity on museum practices, and other social networks? Does the digital domain create a new national aesthetic of connection and relationality, and how might we rethink the nation in this new aesthetic frame? How do digital relationships affect the production of new collections and new relations to the object world? How does this electronic infrastructure generate or perpetuate hierarchies of knowledge and the political economy of information? Résumé A partir d’une étude de cas sur le développement d’un système de base de données intégré pour le Centre culturel du Vanuatu (Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta – VKS), les auteurs s’efforcent d’éclaircir et de questionner l’esthétique de cette base de données ainsi que les liens entre relations numériques et sociales à l’intérieur de ce musée et au‐delà. La base de données du VKS met en évidence des relations entre savoir, pratique et collection et crée des liens dans un nouvel espace national trilingue. Quelles sont les implications d’une cartographie du social dans le numérique, et vice versa ? Quelle est l’efficacité d’une connexion numérique aux pratiques du musée et aux autres réseaux sociaux ? Le domaine numérique crée‐t‐il une nouvelle esthétique nationale des connexions et des relations, et comment peut‐on repenser la nation dans ce nouveau cadre esthétique ? Comment les relations numériques affectent‐elles la production de nouvelles collections et de nouvelles relations au monde des objets ? Comment cette infrastructure électronique génère ou perpétue‐t‐elle les hiérarchies du savoir et l’économie politique de l’information ?
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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 | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.017 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".