Taking Custody, Giving Access: A Postcustodial Role for a New Century
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Abstract
Cet article considère la relation entre la garde des documents et leur accès en mettant l'accent sur le rôle vital que joue l'accès aux documents historiques dans la construction de la mémoire collective.Il explore le principe de la garde des documents tel qu'il a été développé principalement dans le monde anglo-saxon, son arrière-plan historique ainsi que son évolution au milieu du XX e siècle en postcustodialism.Enfin il suggère que l'accès doit avoir un rôle primordial pour les archivistes ayant la garde des documents dans le siècle qui commence.ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between custody and access focusing on the vital role that access to historical records plays in the construction of community memory.It explores the principle of archival custody as it has developed primarily in the English-speaking world, its historical background, its mid-twentiethcentury evolution into postcustodialism, and suggests that access be a primary role for the custodian in the new century. Prologue: A Tale of Access and MemoryOn 3 July 1848, the enslaved African population of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies (now the United States Virgin Islands) took fate into their own hands and demanded freedom from their colonial masters.Determination and sheer numbers resulted in the immediate emancipation of the entire Danish colony, marking this event as only the second successful slave revolt in the Caribbean.1 Although the rebellion seems to have been planned and instigated by a group of conspirators, one man, Moses Gottlieb, popularly known as "General Bourdeaux" or "General Buddhoe" emerged as the leader.According to the story as told in two supposed eye-witness accounts 2 and subse-1 Neville Hall, "Slave Society in the Danish West Indies," in Barry Higman, ed., St. Thomas, St.John and St. Croix, (Mona, Jamaica, 1992), p. 136. 2 Two eye-witness accounts were published after the Emancipation, one by Stadthhauptmand Chamberlain Frederik von Scholten, Governor Peter von Scholten's brother, who describes events as he saw them from Frederiksted, and the other by Chamberlain Irminger, Captain of the ship Ornen.One was recounted and published several years after the events, the other sug-page076.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".