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Record W4386520346 · doi:10.1515/9780796926074-006

Acknowledgements

2020· book-chapter· en· W4386520346 on OpenAlex
Iain Edwards, Marc Epprecht

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueLynne Rienner Publishers eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceInyuvesi Yakwazulu-NataliReed CollegeMichigan State University
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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In October 1995, the first South African colloquium on gay and lesbian studies in southern Africa was held at the University of Cape Town.In November that same year, the annual conference of the African Studies Association (ASA), a body of mostly American and Canadian scholars and professionals, hosted the founding business meeting of the Gays and Lesbians in African Studies (GLAS) caucus.During that conference, GLAS convened the first-ever ASA-authorised round-table discussion on homosexuality in Africa, entitled 'Homosexuality in Africa and African Studies: does it exist and why does it matter?'The quest to develop a gay history and archive of and in southern Africa itself goes back to the formative 'Gay and lesbian social history workshop' organised by Mr Graeme Reid, held in 1997 at the University of the Witwatersrand.Iain Edwards was a presenting participant, providing a spoken outline of the Izingqingili zaseMkhumbane project.Edwards remembers that during the closing forward-looking session some envisioned, in Edwards' words, a 'footless past for a queer future' and Mr Zackie Achmat's presciently persuasive call for engaged historical research and archival collection covering the wider southern African region.Herein lay the origins of the Gay and Lesbian Archive (GALA).The organisation is now called Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, whilst retaining the GALA acronym, and, as its twentieth-anniversary approaches, is re-considering its name and purpose.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.330
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it