The Character of Personal Archives: Reflections on the Value of Records of Individuals
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article se penche sur le caractère des archives personnelles.L'auteure constate que les récents débats concernant l'évaluation et l'acquisition des documents ont été centrés sur le modèle des documents gouvernementaux ou administratifs et que des débats similaires n'ont pas encore eu lieu pour ce qui est des documents personnels.En adoptant les stratégies organisationnelles de la théorie archivistique actuelle pour les archives personnelles, les archivistes peuvent révéler les individus au point de rencontre de leurs interactions ainsi qu'en tant qu'acteurs dans divers rôles à l'intérieur de la société.Cependant, dans les fonds d'archives personnelles, tant les uniques schémas documentaires des individus que les expressions de leurs caractères individuels et de leurs luttes intérieures révèlent comment les archives personnelles diffèrent des documents institutionnels.En cherchant à refléter le caractère et l'intériorité des individus dans leurs archives, les archivistes peuvent représenter de meilleure façon leur créateur non pas uniquement comme un agent social, mais comme un individu créatif forgeant sa propre vie au cours des ans.ABSTRACT This article examines the character of personal archives and suggests that recent debates concerning the acquisition and appraisal of records have centred on administrative or government records models, and that similar debates have not occurred concerning personal records.By adopting the organization-based strategies of current archival theory to personal archives, archivists will reflect on individuals at the crux of interactions and as performing various roles within society.In the personal fonds, however, both the unique documentary patterns of individuals and the expressions of an individual's character and interior struggles reflect how individuals' archives differ from organizational records.By seeking to reflect the character and interiority of individuals within archives, archivists will better represent the creator not just as a social agent, but as the creative individual forging his or her own life through time.Personal fonds contain the documentation of individual lives and human personality.While these fonds certainly often reflect the recorded evidence of the functions of the creator, in the same way as do fonds of organizations, personal archives also contain traces of the individual character of the record's creator.There are here glimpses of the inner soul as well as its outer manifestation in public activities.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.024 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".