Establishing Recognition of Past Injustices: Uses of Archival Records in Documenting the Experience of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War
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Abstract
Les Archives nationales du Canada détiennent un nombre important de documents d'archives du gouvernement fédéral qui fournissent de l'information sur le déracinement des Canadiens d'origine japonaise durant et après la seconde guerre mondiale.Cet article se penche sur l'utilisation des documents d'archives qui a poussé cette communauté à remettre en cause le traitement dont elle a fait l'objet, de demander des excuses au gouvernement et d'exiger des dédommagements pour ses pertes.L'emploi des documents dans diverses publications a également contribué à construire la mémoire culturelle de cette communauté.L'existence de tels documents d'archives est essentielle afin de permettre aux citoyens de rendre les gouvernements démocratiques plus responsables de leurs politiques, de leurs décisions et de leurs actions.L'exemple de l'effort des Canadiens d'origine japonaise pour obtenir la reconnaissance et le redressement des injustices du passé lève le voile sur le rôle important que peuvent jouer pour la protection des citoyens les institutions d'archives nationales, par le biais des décisions concernant l'évaluation et le transfert de documents d'archives.ABSTRACT The National Archives of Canada holds an extensive group of archival government records that document the uprooting of the Japanese Canadian community during the Second World War and its aftermath.This article explores the use of the archival records that caused the community to question the fairness of their treatment, to seek an apology from the government, and request compensation for their losses.Usage of the archival record in subsequent publications also helped to build cultural memory.The existence of such archival documents is essential for citizens to hold democratic government accountable for its policies, decisions, and actions.The example of the Japanese Canadians' efforts to seek recognition of, and restitution for, past injustices illuminates the important role played by a national archives in protecting the rights of citizens through its appraisal and transfer decisions.A recent National Archives of Canada policy statement on Preserving the Archival and Historical Memory of Government outlines the importance of records created by the Government of Canada. 1 Predictably, the statement says that the records are "critical to the efficient administration of government as it conducts business and the affairs of state on behalf of Canadians."It also 1 "Preserving the Archival and Historical Memory of Government," statement approved by the National Archivist of Canada, 17 October
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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 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".