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Museum Rhetoric as Nation-Building

2024· article· en· W4405681815 on OpenAlex
Amanda H. Sorensen

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.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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

VenueCanadian Journal of Information and Library Science · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMuseums and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Museum of Natural HistorySmithsonian Institution
KeywordsRhetoricPolitical scienceSociologyAestheticsArchitectural engineeringMedia studiesArtLinguisticsPhilosophyEngineering

Abstract

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This paper examines analog records, ledger book pages and catalog cards, at the Smithsonian Institution (SI) National Museum of Natural History within the anthropology collections, examining how these documents advance an information infrastructure categorizing the Pacific Northwest materials making up accession 000051. Within this case study and textual analysis, I found that using a nation-building lens elucidated knowledge organization (KO) logics at play with these records. My critical reading outlines the ways these records firmly place Indigenous materials and belongings under SI and broader Euro-American knowledge systems via language use and place names, rhetorically furthering land dispossession and functioning to realize the US as a nation. This paper positions KO and associated rhetoric and language use as a tool of nation building, and museum records as a process, a genre of writing that have been honed, remade, and reinscribed over time within institutions toward political and national ends. I end this paper describing ongoing projects supporting and furthering Indigenous sovereignty via KO work in relation to cultural heritage collections, illustrating responses to the nation-building rhetoric within the SI records I analyze.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.013
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.183 · 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