Historic Past, Promising Future: An Archival Research Project on Tourism and Identity in the Limestone City
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Abstract
1973: The City of Kingston holds a year-long birthday celebration in honour of its 300th called Tercentenary. Planning for this event takes three years and ongoing consultation with major stakeholders in the city and its residents. This archival research presentation discusses the original motives behind the Tercentenary Committee and its members, the key events in both planning and execution of Tercentenary, and major festivities throughout the year and their impact on the Kingston community and the image of Kingston as a historic city. As with many other heritage tourism events, the City uses Tercentenary to solidify community identity and civic pride in order to further promote tourism and profits from visitors. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities theory informs the project, alongside other Canadian examples of heritage tourism that shaped regional identity over the past century. Using these secondary sources, I will argue that the Committee(s) desire to tie the City’s Historic Past to its Promising Future shaped their perspectives on marketing Tercentenary to residents and Kingston stakeholders as much as to visitors. This project is one of the first in a new course offered in the History Department titled HIST 501: History/Queen’s Archives Internship. Students complete archival tasks such as indexing and minor preservation and can choose to partake in a personal research project.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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".