Bibliographic record
Abstract
In November 2023, the Central Archives of Gaza was bombed during Israel’s ongoing incursion in the strip, reducing 150 years of the cultural record to ash. This attack is but one moment in the long history of archival theft and destruction in Palestine, the culmination of a sphere of colonial epistemicide. Palestinian ways of knowing face a constant threat of annihilation, and Palestinian archives are built under the looming peril of physical destruction. Palestinian archives struggle to appraise for the future and engage instead in massified forms of appraisal and digitization in efforts to preserve everything they can in the face of these threats. Taking stock of some current prominent instances of archival projects in Palestine, this article thinks through some current approaches to appraisal, wondering if they apply here and whether they can be expanded to account for the particularities of this environment. It then attempts to reimagine what a liberatory appraisal might look like, thinking about the Palestinian archive as a counter to epistemic violence and exploring the processes through which appraisal methods and categories might be gleaned by anticipating liberated futures.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".