A Symbolic Return of Communitas William MacDonnellâs Modernizing Mostar
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Abstract
William MacDonnell's Modernizing Mostar, painted in 2001, is a potent metaphor for the wars of ethnicity and culture that swept much of the former Yugoslavia in the immediate post-Cold War years.A relatively recent addition to the Canadian War Museum's collection of war art, it depicts a temporary metal footbridge, a potential aid to reconciliation and healing, which was erected on the same spot where the Old Bridge once stood.Completed in 1566, the latter structure connected the different peoples of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, until it was destroyed in 1993 as a result of civil war.Resume: L 'wuvre de William MacDonnell intitulee Modernizing Mostar, creee en 2001, est une metaphore puissante des guerres ethniques et culturelles qui ont devaste une grande partie de l 'ex-Yougoslavie dans les annees qui ont suivi la Guerre froide.Recemment ajoute a la collection d'art militaire du Musee canadien de la guerre, ce tableau represente une passerelle metallique temporaire, une aide potentielle a la reconciliation et a la guerison, qui fut erigee a l'endroit ou se tenait l 'ancien pont.Ce pont, termine en 1556, reliait les differents peuples de Mostar, en Bosnie-Herzegivine, jusqu'a sa destruction en 1993 pendant la guerre.A t f i r s t g l a n c e , the reason behind the inclusion of William MacDonnell's 2001 painting Modernizing Mostar (c w m 20110001-001) in the Canadian War Museum's (c w m ) collection of war art is not readily apparent.It does not include standard Canadian military iconography or easily identifiable individuals, it does not
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".