HAMILTON, HARRIS, TAYLOR, PICKOVER, REID, and SALEH, Refiguring the Archive
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1998, the final report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was issued.The Report formed the keystone of the negotiated transformation of the apartheid system to liberal democracy in South Africa.In that same year, a remarkable seminar series, "Refiguring the Archive," was sponsored by four co-operating institutions and hosted by the University of Witwatersrand.The seminars, with twenty-two speakers, were complemented by art exhibits, theatre, film, and dance presentations.This is not the first time that the concept of the archive has been examined from diverse epistemological perspectives, but this instance is unique in being set against the stark history of the repressive apartheid regime in South Africa, and in being structured with an avowed political agenda.It was assumed that an essential component for any meaningful transformation of the state would involve, firstly, the identification and exposure of document distortion, record destruction, induced silences, and deliberate gaps in the archive of colonialism and apartheid, and, secondly, the conviction that the archive of South Africa, including the newly established National Archives (1996), would benefit from new knowledge provided by a thorough deconstruction of assumptions and sureties.This book, Refiguring the Archive, is one product coming out of the space opened up for such discussions.The eighteen articles in this volume are interspersed with graphic reproductions of documents of repression, correspondence relating to secret missions, records of interrogations, and reports on suspicious researchers: assorted textual remnants providing chilling reminders to the reader that here theories of the archive and its power will not be separated from the context of the lives, and deaths, of black South Africans and others who were cast as enemies of a
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".