BEYEA, WARE, and AVERY, eds., The Power and Passion of Archives: A Festschrift in Honour of Kent Haworth
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Abstract
What is the true measure of a man?Judging by the description of Kent Haworth offered here by numerous colleagues and friends, his life merited special honour.The legacy he left as archivist, scholar, advocate, lover of life and nature, was of such magnitude that a symposium and subsequent book were deemed fitting celebration of a life devoted to the "power and passion" of archives.The organizers chose the title, as Marion Beyea explained, to capture the spirit Haworth brought to his work and his belief that archives provided a powerful social and cultural force, underpinning democracy and justice through the custody of truth and knowledge.Unfortunately the tribute was bittersweet as Haworth died a mere two months before this gathering of his many admirers convened at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies on 21 March 2003.For those readers who did not attend or who are not familiar with the contributions Haworth made to the archival profession, this festschrift, edited by Beyea, Reuben Ware, and Cheryl Avery, stands as a record of the proceedings of the day and serves as a permanent tribute to the legacy of a much admired man.The host of speakers represented a broad spectrum of Haworth's thirtyyear career, recounting his achievements, his writings, and the people he influenced.Scanning the list of speakers and their affiliations, (David Wallace and Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan; Verne Harris, South African History Archives; Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada; and Peter Horsman, Archives School of the Netherlands, among the many notable contributors), it is impressive to observe the impact one individual had on the international community of archives.In addition to this worldwide scope, his influence was equally exerted on archives at the local level in all of the communities in which he lived during his career.A major tenet of his own professional philosophy was a belief in the conjoining of local, provincial, and national interests.Archives are bound by jurisdiction, but as profession als, archivists share interests that transcend borders.Haworth was driven by 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 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".