Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast
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Abstract
Powerful prosthetic memories of the Titanic story have circulated in popular culture for more than a century and have become the focus of several experiential museums and Titanic-focused heritage sites on both sides of the Atlantic, most notably in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the doomed liner was built. Drawing on recent field work, this article analyses the ways in which a series of engaging, multisensory and three-dimensional spatial narratives have been deployed within the new Titanic Belfast signature attraction and the surrounding memoryscape to make the absent ship present for visitors once more. These spatial narratives inform an affective heritage approach that focuses, not on the tragedy of Titanic’s sinking, but on feelings of awe and wonder at the scale and grandeur of the great ship, allowing memory managers to tell a celebratory, Belfast-focused origin story for this internationally renowned ‘ship of dreams’.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".