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Record W2239914438

Paper Memories, Presented Selves: Original Order and the Arrangement of the Donald G. Simpson Fonds at York University

2012· article· en· W2239914438 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Carolyn Harris

Bibliographic record

VenueArchivaria (Association of Canadian Archivists) · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDigital and Traditional Archives Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrder (exchange)ParallelsCitizen journalismValue (mathematics)Identity (music)SociologyRepresentation (politics)Media studiesArt historyEpistemologyHistoryComputer scienceAestheticsLawArtPolitical scienceWorld Wide WebEngineeringPhilosophyPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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As the acquisition of modern, recently created records has become more common, new challenges and opportunities have become part of archivists’ work. Original order in contemporary, open personal fonds is no longer the tidy concept introduced by Muller, Feith, and Fruin, but more often a moving target, and arrangement is much less self-evident or simple than in former days. This article is a case study about archival arrangement, order, the experience of working with a living donor, and particularly the intellectual struggle between theory and practice encountered by the author during the arrangement and description of the Donald G. Simpson Fonds at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University in Toronto. The article discusses and reflects upon the ways in which original order was interpreted given that the received order was a self-conscious construction of the creator, making archival arrangement an interesting endeavour to protect evidential value while revealing the fonds’ immense informational value to users. The Simpson Fonds is an intriguing, real-world example that supports recent reconceptions of original order in the archives literature. In discussing Simpson’s (re)arrangement, the author references critical theory on life writing and its ideas about identity, self-representation, and memory in order to draw parallels between the processes of writing the self and documenting the self. The author also explores the benefits, opportunities, and challenges that came with having a “live” donor. This is a unique case of participatory archiving with an enthusiastic and active donor. It contributes to the sparse archives literature on working with personal records, and shares one archivist’s experience interpreting original order as it manifested in this personal fonds. RÉSUMÉ À mesure que l’acquisition de documents d’archives modernes et nouvellement créés est devenue plus courante, le travail des archivistes s’est ouvert à de nouveaux défis et à de nouvelles opportunités. L’ordre original pour les fonds personnels ouverts et contemporains n’est plus le concept clair et précis que Muller, Feith et Fruin ont introduit; c’est plus une cible mouvante et le classement est beaucoup moins évident et simple que dans le passé. Cet article présente une étude de cas au sujet du classement archivistique, de l’ordre, de l’expérience de travail avec un donateur vivant, et en particulier, du débat intellectuel entre la théorie et la pratique que l’auteure a connue lorsqu’elle traitait et décrivait le fonds Donald G. Simpson aux Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections à Université York à Toronto. L’auteure examine et réfléchit aux façons dont l’ordre original a été interprété, puisque l’ordre établi était une construction volontaire du créateur, ce qui a fait du traitement de ce fonds une entreprise intéressante pour protéger la valeur de preuve tout en mettant l’accent pour les chercheurs sur l’immense valeur informationnelle du fonds. Le fonds Simpson est un exemple réel et intrigant qui appuie les récentes redéfinitions de l’ordre original rencontrées dans les écrits en archivistique. En examinant le (re)classement du fonds Simpson, l’auteure fait référence à la théorie critique sur l’écriture biographique et à ses idées autour de l’identité, de la représentation de soi et de la mémoire, dans le but d’établir des parallèles entre les processus d’écrire au sujet de soi et de laisser de traces écrites de sa vie. L’auteure explore les avantages, les opportunités et les défis encourus lorsqu’on travaille avec un donateur vivant. Il s’agit d’un cas unique d’archivage participatif avec un donateur enthousiaste et actif. Cet article contribue au très petit corpus de documents savants portant sur les archives personnelles et il partage les expériences d’une archiviste qui interprète l’ordre original tel qu’il s’est manifesté dans ce fonds personnel.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.902
Threshold uncertainty score0.258

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0100.008
Scholarly communication0.0130.005
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0770.006

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.165
Teacher spread0.153 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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