Wade, Mara R., PI, Timothy W. Cole, co-PI, and Myung-Ja K. Han, co-PI; Thomas Stäcker, German PI, and Andrea Opitz, co-PI. Emblematica Online. Other
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When I first learned about the existence of Emblematica Online, I was reminded of the concept of a "total" library that Jorge Luis Borges advanced in "The Library of Babel." In the story, the narrator guides the reader through a library-a metonym for the universe-made of hexagonal bookshelves.Within the logic of the story, a combinatory algorithm registers not only every book ever written but also "all the possible combinations of the twenty-odd orthographical symbols." 1 The library stands out as the repository of all past, present, and future books destined to exist.Borges did not have the chance to search the Internet or live in the days of Wikipedia, a Borgean fantasy par excellence.Still, the tantalizing thought that by means of combinatory algorithms it would be possible to search a finite, and yet potentially growing, number of volumes is at the core of the story.In a similar vein, but limited to emblem books, Emblematica Online is an excellent digital project that provides a comprehensive and user-friendly tool for the study of early modern texts and images.It is both a curated digital library of facsimiles of emblem books and a portal for searching across individual emblems, that is, bimedial compositions that through the interplay of images and texts often convey allegorical meanings.Broad in scope and academically curated, Emblematica Online is an indispensable point of reference for scholars interested in the cultural heritage of the Renaissance and the Baroque period.When it was first conceived, the site was responding to the need to preserve and at the same time provide remote access to emblem books, which are generally housed in the special collections of select libraries.The project was initially proposed by Mara Wade at an emblem conference in Glasgow in 2001.It was further developed between 2003 and 2006 when Mara Wade and Thomas Stcker collaborated on the German Emblem Project, a pilot program that paved the way to Emblematica 1. Borges, "Library of Babel, " 115.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".