Victoria: The Keep-It-All State? The Impact on Archives of the Crimes (Document Destruction) Act 2006 and the Evidence (Document Unavailability) Act 2006
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Abstract
En 2006, Victoria est devenu le premier État australien à promulguer des lois qui criminalisent spécifiquement la destruction de documents dans des situations où aucun procès n'a encore commencé.Le Crimes (Document Destruction) Act et la législation complémentaire, l'Evidence (Document Unavailability) Act, incluent des infractions et des peines pour celles et ceux qui détruisent des preuves.La nouvelle législation a immédiatement provoqué un malaise profond dans les secteurs publics et privés de Victoria : est-ce que ces lois voulaient dire qu'une organisation ne pouvait plus détruire aucun document car on pourrait un jour en avoir besoin dans des procès n'ayant pas encore été présentés en cour ou n'ayant même pas encore été envisagés?Les agences se sont tournées vers le Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), l'autorité en matière des archives de l'État, pour obtenir des conseils et des éclaircissements sur les répercussions possibles de ces lois sur la gestion des documents et l'archivisti que.Cet article examine les questions que le PROV a dû considérer pour développer sa réponse aux deux lois et, de façon plus large, il explore comment la tendance de « garder au cas où » peut créer des défis d'ordre intellectuel et pratique, tant pour les gestionnaires de documents que pour les archivistes.ABSTRACT In 2006, Victoria became the first state in Australia to enact laws spe cifically criminalizing document destruction in situations where no legal proceed ings had yet commenced.Included in the Crimes (Document Destruction) Act and its supporting adjunct, the Evidence (Document Unavailability) Act, are offences and penalties for those who destroy evidence.The new legislation sent an immediate and profound wave of unease throughout Victoria's public and private sectors: Did these laws mean that organizations could no longer destroy any record because it may one day be needed in discovery for a case not yet launched or even contemplated?Agencies turned to the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), the state archival authority, for advice and clarification on what the Acts meant for recordkeeping and archives.This article reviews the issues that PROV considered in developing a response to the two Acts, and more broadly, how open-ended directions to "keep in case" can pose both intellectual and practical challenges for records managers and archivists alike.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.003 |
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".