Archive of the Ukrainian Free University as a source for studying Ukrainian scientific life in displaced persons camps (1945-1952)
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Abstract
The goal of the research. The research aim is to provide a general overview of significant unpublished sources based on the analysis of the archival funds of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. These sources enable the exploration of the development of Ukrainian scientific life in displaced persons camps in the Western occupation zones of Germany and Austria. Additionally, they allow for the reconstruction of unknown facts from the biographies of prominent Ukrainian scholars, primarily historians, who lived and worked during this period. The research methodology is based on the utilization of interdisciplinary methods of source analysis and synthesis, including critical analysis, typologization, and verification. Historical analysis, employing chronological methods, is also employed, alongside both quantitative and qualitative analysis of documents. The scientific novelty of our research lies in the identification of the potential of the archive of the Ukrainian Free University for researchers of the history of science during the years 1945-1952. Conclusions. A significant body of unpublished sources preserved in the archive of the Ukrainian Free University provides an opportunity to investigate Ukrainian scientific life in Displaced Persons Camps (DPCs). This includes examining the main directions of functioning, the results of work, implemented and unrealized projects of organizations such as the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the German-Ukrainian Society, the Ukrainian Free University, the Theological-Pedagogical Academy, as well as the intellectual legacy of leading Ukrainian historians such as B. Krupnytskyi, P. Kurinnyi, D. Olianchyn, N. Polonska-Vasylenko, and V. Shcherbakivskyi, all of which is housed in one of the prominent centers of Ukrainian archival materials in Europe - Ukrainian Free University. Statistical sources stored in the archive allow determining the number of Ukrainian scientists who lived in and around the American, British, and French occupation zones, as well as the dynamics of emigration of Ukrainian intellectuals from Germany and Austria to the USA, Canada, the UK, France, and other countries. The comprehensive personal archive of historian D. Olianchyn enables the reconstruction of his life and activities, which have not yet received adequate coverage in Ukrainian historiography. Periodicals and the press from 1945-1952 allow for a deeper analysis of the influence of the socio-cultural environment on Ukrainian science and the intellectual legacy of the DPCs.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".