Media and the Messengers: Writings on Digital Archiving in Canada from the 1960s to the 1980s
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Abstract
En puisant largement, mais pas de faon exclusive, dans The Canadian Archivist et Archivaria, j'expose le dveloppement de la pense et de la pratique en matire des archives numriques au Canada entre les annes 1960 et les annes 1980, partir des tout premiers essais de cration d'instruments de recherche informatiss et l'tablissement de la Division des archives ordinolingues aux Archives publiques du Canada.Je me penche surtout sur les tendances dans le dveloppement des technologies de l'informatique et sur leur utilisation par les employs de bureau.Il s'agit souvent de voix qu'on avait marginalises, notamment lors des premires phases.Un des premiers gestionnaires de la Division des archives ordinolingues, Michael Carroll, caractrisait l'archivage numrique comme une spcialisation lie un support documentaire, une variation des archives textuelles, sur papier.Malgr l'appui de personnes trs influentes comme Jay Atherton et Hugh Taylor, le courant dominant en archivistique canadienne est rest fix sur les documents sur papier et sur les pratiques archivistiques qui leur sont propres, en dpit du fait que des ordinateurs de bureau peu coteux et conviviaux ont commenc faire leur apparition dans des environnements de travail, y inclus dans les centres d'archives, au courant des annes 1980.Dans un second article dans The American Archivist 79, numro 2 (automne 2016), je poursuis cet examen pour la priode entre les annes 1980 et 2011.ABSTRACT Drawing largely, but not exclusively, on The Canadian Archivist and Archivaria, I trace the development of digital archival practice and thinking in Canada from the 1960s to the 1980s, starting with early experiments in computerized finding-aid creation and the establishment of the Public Archives of Canada's Machine Readable Archives (MRA) Division.I pay particular attention to trends in the development of computing technologies and their use by office workers.Particularly in its early phases, this is often a story of voices from the margins.Early MRA Division manager Michael Carroll characterized digital archiving as a media specialization, a variation on textual, paper archives.Despite high-profile boosters such as Jay Atherton and Hugh Taylor, the Canadian archival mainstream remained focused on paper-based records and archival practices, even as inexpensive and userfriendly desktop-computing systems began to appear in contemporary office environments, including archives, during the 1980s.In a second article in The American Archivist 79, no. 2 (Fall 2016), I take the story from the 1980s to 2011.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it