The origins & early development of the Nova Scotia Museum, 1868-1940
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Abstract
The Nova Scotia Provincial Museum was founded in 11368.In 1994, 126 years later, the heritage community of Nova Scotia is reeling as this Museum undergoes, what some have called, its most radical reorganization.The Museum's management structure, funding structure, and branch support networks have all been reviewed, revised and reorganized.Is this due to the "tough economic times" of the 1990's?Or is this part of a pattern which repeats itself as a periodic response of a socially sensitive and public-serving institution?The Nova Scotia Museum has been growing for the last 126 years, its growth has required it to stay abreast of changing social needs, public expectations and the government's financial capabilities.Nova Scotians have supported museums individually and collectively through government for over a century.But, it is only recently that researchers have begun to look, assess and challenge the role these institutions play in society.Museums are often regarded as virtuous institutions dedicated to the preservation of natural and human history which is then interpreted and exhibited for the public.The tools of interpretation and exhibition are powerful mediums and therefore analysis and critique are essential in order to fully comprehend the museum's role in relation to the contemporary needs of the public it serves.This thesis will examine the origins and early development of the Nova Scotia Museum and its development from 1868-1940.It will examine how the Museum, through its collection, responded to the needs of the Nova Scotian public and how these needs affected the evolution of the Museum as an institution.could not have been completed.I especially would like to thank my thesis advisor Dr James Morrison for his guidance and wisdom.To all the stêiff of the Atlantic Canada Studies program who through their course-work help prepare students for the thesis, thank-you.I would like to acknowledge the
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".