Bibliographic record
Abstract
A WOMAN WHO KNEW HER OWN MIND and possessed a razor-sharp wit.Her philosophy of history and research were summed up by a statement she gave in a 1968 interview: "The most important things are the people, what they did and how they lived, where they came from." 1 Archivists are strange characters as we often pick up the remnants of people's lives.Esther willed "all files, notes and manuscripts in my possession at the time of my death to the Acadia University Library for its Archives."Shortly after her death in June 1990 Barry Moody and I went to her home on Hillside Avenue in Wolfville to see what was there.This initial trip was followed by several more to pack and pick up the many boxes and the many shoeboxes.It appeared that she never threw anything out, or perhaps very little, and for an archivist this is always wonderful!Dr. Wright's papers are a goldmine for the study of the Planters, the Loyalists, and the rivers of New Brunswick to name but a few areas.Esther Isabell Clark entered Acadia University in September of 1912.For the next 46 years she wrote a weekly letter to her mother Harriet Hannah Richardson Clark until Mrs. Clark's death in 1958.These letters provide a rich insight into the development of Esther Clark Wright as a researcher and an historian of the Maritimes.A prolific author, Dr. Wright began her writing career as a young woman."Public Opinion" (1916) and "The Challenge to Canadian Womanhood" (1919) were her first published works.The author of 15 books and numerous articles, she is best known for her pioneering studies The Loyalists of New Brunswick (1955) and Planters and Pioneers (1978). 2 What got Esther interested in the Loyalists in the first place?Esther's father William George Clark, a direct descendant of Alexander Clark, a New Jersey Loyalist who settled in New Brunswick, was born 1 October 1865.A prominent merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, he celebrated his 75th birthday on 1 October 1940.Esther's first book related to the Loyalists -Alexander Clark, Loyalist: A Contribution to the History of New Brunswick -was published in September 1940.3 There is evidence in her papers to suggest that this book, and of course all of the research that went into it, was a birthday present for her father.She was "Clarking" as she put it in letters to her mother and to her husband Conrad.The publication of the "birthday book" merely whetted her appetite.As she stated in 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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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".