Bitterli, Dieter, project dir. emblemata.ch: An Inventory of Applied Emblems in Switzerland. Other
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Abstract
Although core research on emblematics is still focused on printed books, the last 20 years have seen a growing interest in the use of emblems in material culture, known as applied emblematics (angewandte Emblematik).Such emblems were present on the walls of churches and secular buildings, furniture, and textiles, and they comprised important elements of various types of festivals.These material emblematic realizations still await further study.Most freely accessible online projects are associated with libraries and give access to select emblem books from that particular library's collection.Against this backdrop, projects that aim to inventory and provide photographic identification of non-book emblematic compositions are particularly appreciated.Dieter Bitterli's project, entitled emblemata.ch:An Inventory of Applied Emblems in Switzerland, aims to list objects with applied emblems located in Switzerland and created between 1600 and 1780.During the nine years of the project (2012-21), 28 objects were inventoried and described.The author emphasizes that the project constitutes a "scholarly website" rather than a database.Despite not meeting database standards for several reasons, it nevertheless represents a useful collection of architectural objects constructed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that were decorated with emblems.Objects in the inventory include painted emblems on church altars and panelled ceilings, decorated faades and walls, stucco emblems as a part of a scheme of interior ornamentation, emblems on stained glass windows, and so on.It is worth noting that the author also prepared the associated website for the Pilgrimage Church in Hergiswald, the building mostly richly decorated with emblems in Switzerland (bilderhimmel-hergiswald.ch).In conjunction with this research, he also published the monograph Der Bilderhimmel von Hergiswald in 2017.The website contains six main subsections: "Home, " "The Project, " "Objects & Emblems, " "References, " "Indices, " and "More." Browsing begins on the "Objects & Emblems" page with a list of locations, arranged in alphabetical order, where applied emblems are found.Each location is accompanied by
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 | 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