[Design of] Airgeadóir: four centuries of Cork silver and gold
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As part of the European Capital of Culture 2005 celebrations for Cork, the exhibition (budget £350,000) showcased work of Cork’s silversmiths and goldsmiths over four centuries. It contained over 165 pieces some of which came from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Breaking the rules of conventional exhibition methods for silver and gold, the showcase materials, artefact organisation and lighting were reanalysed as a part of the design process. The cabinets, 47 in total and varied in size and shape, were all free-standing, to allow for the mobility requested in the brief. They were constructed from untreated Corten steel to amplify the spectacle of the objects, by providing them with a contemporary counterpoint. Traditionally blue-toned light is used to display silver but, with the development and availability of new lighting, the opportunity to innovate resulted in the use of white light, a first in the displaying of precious metals. Fluorescent tubes (with colour designation ‘white light’ and a correlated colour temperature of 4000 Kelvin) combined with PMMA fibre optics tailed from a halogen light generator (white light - 4200 Kelvin) were combined within the cabinets behind a pearl acrylic to generate a ‘pure white’ environment for the silver and gold to be viewed. Received the highest number of visitors to the Crawford Gallery for any single exhibition. Moved to the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland in April 2007. Credited as exhibition designer in catalogue: Cork Silver and Gold: Four Centuries of Craftsmanship ISBN: 1903464951 Invited contribution to book Space, Architecture for Art ISBN: 0955031907 to discuss exhibition design. Contribution sub-titled Barbara Griffin. Page 139, Chapter: The good, the bad and the ugly. What works for art and is there such a thing as the ideal space? Reviewed in Architecture Ireland RIAI – article title, Airgeadoir Exhibition ISSN 1469-5152
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.005 |
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".