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Record W4404670578 · doi:10.1093/hwj/dbae029

Archivists and historians: Alan Betteridge (1942–2024)

2024· article· en· W4404670578 on OpenAlex
Jill Liddington

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Bibliographic record

VenueHistory Workshop Journal · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIrish and British Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLibrary scienceHistoryArtClassicsArt historyComputer science

Abstract

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Dr Alan Betteridge, who died on 7 July 2024, developed extraordinarily wide intellectual interests. The philosophy he lived by was rooted in three traditions: existentialism, ecology and humanism; and his funeral, held on 28 July, was conducted beautifully by a humanist celebrant – just as Alan would have wanted. As the Halifax Archivist, Alan brought to this post both his deep knowledge of West Yorkshire history and up-to-date professional policies and practices. I worked with Alan in many contexts. But probably his greatest contribution for me was his conservation of the Anne Lister diaries (1791–1840), stored within the extensive Shibden Hall papers. Her journals came to international attention and acclaim in 2019 with Sally Wainwright’s TV drama series ‘Gentleman Jack’ (BBC1/HBO). Alan had an impressively mobile academic journey. He was born on 1 November 1942 in the West Yorkshire pit village of Ferry Fryston. His father, a jazz drummer, left the family during Alan’s childhood. An only child, he was brought up by his mother. Always quietly studious, Alan went from grammar school to King’s College London, where he studied French and German. After two years in Germany and a spell teaching in a secondary modern school in Wakefield, he decided it would suit him better to do a postgraduate degree in librarianship at Leeds University.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.593
Threshold uncertainty score0.745

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.258 · 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