‘What belongs to the Czechoslovak nation’: geographers’ and mapmakers’ visions of Czechoslovakia before the Paris Peace Conference
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the lives and works of four mapmakers – Viktor Dvorský, Lubor Niederle, Jaroslav Pantoflíček, and Jan Kapras – before the creation of Czechoslovakia. In 1917 and 1918, nationalist thought became more prominent in the works of the Czechoslovak geographers and mapmakers who aided the delegation at the Peace Conference after the war. The work that mapmakers and geographers produced during this period would directly impact the roles they played in creating their state. While each of these mapmakers based their claims on scientific principles, their unique academic training, professional experiences, and their nationalism all influenced the work they produced. In the immediate post-war period, then, these geographers and mapmakers seized the opportunity to use their geography credentials to gain political influence and achieve national aspirations for their state. These four mapmakers were essential for creating Czechoslovakia’s borders after the First World War and they played a pivotal role in shaping the borders of interwar Europe.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".