"Much Material of 1821 Not Listed": Troubling Christina Colvin's Calendar of Maria Edgeworth's Correspondence with Digital Analysis
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Abstract
The Edgeworth family have been the subject of much scholarly research in terms of literature, science, and education over the past thirty years. This large family—the patriarch, Richard Lovell, had twenty-two children—participated in cultural, political, and scientific networks across Ireland, Britain, and Europe during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and corresponded with several notable writers, thinkers, scientists, and politicians, which has resulted in a large manuscript archive housed in institutions across the world. Though selections of correspondence were made available in print during the twentieth century, now digital tools are being used to create a global "virtual" collection and online, searchable catalogues of their extant correspondence, while digital research is making newly visible, and visible in new ways, the nature of their network and the collaborative nature of the ways it made and circulated knowledge. This article offers a new perspective on the extant Edgeworth correspondence, and the way it has been understood for the past half-century, made possible by reassessing the network data (including correspondents, dates, and location of letters) as presented in library catalogues. La famille Edgeworth a fait l'objet de nombreuses recherches scientifiques en termes de littérature, de science et d'éducation au cours des trente dernières années. Cette famille nombreuse—le patriarche, Richard Lovell, a eu vingt-deux enfants—a participé à des réseaux culturels, politiques et scientifiques en Irlande, en Grande-Bretagne et en Europe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle et a correspondu avec plusieurs écrivains, penseurs, scientifiques et hommes politiques de renom, ce qui a donné lieu à d'importantes archives manuscrites conservées dans des institutions à travers le monde. Bien que des sélections de correspondances aient été rendues disponibles sous forme imprimée au cours du XXe siècle, les outils numériques sont aujourd'hui utilisés pour créer une collection « virtuelle » mondiale et des catalogues consultables en ligne de leur correspondance existante, tandis que la recherche numérique rend nouvellement visible, et de manière inédite, la nature de leur réseau et la nature collaborative de ses modes d'élaboration et de circulation des connaissances. Cet article offre une nouvelle perspective sur la correspondance Edgeworth existante et sur la manière dont elle a été comprise au cours des cinquante dernières années, rendue possible par la réévaluation des données du réseau (y compris les correspondants, les dates et l'emplacement des lettres) telles qu'elles sont présentées dans les catalogues des bibliothèques.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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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