Celebration or manufacturing nostalgia : constructing histories of World Expo '88
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Abstract
World Expo '88, also widely known as 'Expo '88' and locally simply as 'Expo', was held in Brisbane from April to October 1988, as a key event of the national Bicentennial celebrations commemorating the 200 years of European settlement of Australia. Other major components of the Bicentennial year - such as the symbolic re-enactment of the voyage of the First Fleet that culminated in the Parade of Tall Ships sailing into Sydney Harbour on Australia Day - together with other significant national events such as the 1956 and 2000 Olympic Games, have generated historically focused interest, which has been manifested and disseminated in the usual way in articles, books and museum exhibitions. Brisbane's World Expo '88, however, appears to be one of the few Australian so-called 'signature' events that has also generated its own long-lived series of commemorative memorials and festivals. World Expo '88 marked Australia's first staging of an international exposition-type event in almost a century, and one of the few instances in the twentieth century of a world's fair being held in the Southern Hemisphere. The first world exposition (also known as universal or international expositions and world fairs), the spectacularly successful Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of Nations, was held in 1851, when 25 countries exhibited produce, manufactures and other fruits of progress in Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park. Expositions have since been staged around the world, including in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, South Korea, Japan and Haiti, with Australia hosting four expositions in the nineteenth century: the Sydney International Exhibition (1879-80), Melbourne International Exhibition (1880-81), Centennial International Exhibition (1888-89) (also held in Melbourne) and the Queensland International Exhibition (1897). Today, the history of world fairs occupies a special place in public memory globally, with a number of online collections of site and memorabilia imagery, event information and records of visitor memories. Within this memorialising context, however, the ongoing commemoration of Brisbane's World Expo '88 over more than two decades in public, on-site festivals is unusual and worthy of consideration.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".