Archives in a Wider World: The Culture and Politics of Archives
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
L'auteure propose ici une rflexion sur quelques questions que soulvent la culture, la critique littraire, l'histoire et le post-modernisme pour la gestion des documents, les archives et les archivistes, d'un point de vue britannique.Cet essai se fonde sur les changements observs, au cours des dix dernires annes, dans la place des archives telle que perue dans diffrents pays.L'auteure soutient que les archivistes ont le rle majeur de rsoudre les tensions sociales contemporaines concernant ce qu'il faut conserver et dtruire et ce qu'il convient d'ouvrir ou de restreindre, que ce soit pour le prsent ou, plus important encore, pour les gnrations futures.Les archivistes doivent expliquer de faon claire les fondements de leurs dcisions et comprendre les biais inhrents qui les sous-tendent.ABSTRACT This is a reflective essay on some of the cultural, literary criticism, historical, and postmodern implications for records management and archiving, archives, and archivists from a point of view situated in the United Kingdom.It is based on observing the changes, over the past ten years, in the position of archives in various countries' perceptions.The author maintains that archivists have the critical role of producing an archiving resolution of the tensions in society at any one time between what should be kept and destroyed, and what should be open and closed -both for the present and, more importantly, for future generations.Archivists need to make the manner of the archival resolution clear and understand the inherent biases in the processes necessary to achieve that resolution.The subject of archives is, on the face of it, dry and dusty, but nevertheless fascinating for all sorts of reasons to many millions of people across the world.Moreover, in its formal, organizational, and utilitarian guise as "Arch-ives," it is increasingly emerging from the "basement to the boardroom" in governments and organizations and becoming a cultural phenomenon at the same * This is a revised version of an unrefereed article for a Festchrift.I am indebted to discussions I have had with
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it