Improving Access to the Records of Landed Estates: Balancing Archival and User Perspectives
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper draws on the findings of doctoral research that surveyed and evaluated from the perspective of the user past and current archival cataloguing methodologies for the records of longlasting landed estates in the UK. It reports on the findings of focus groups that explored users’ opinions of a sample set of descriptive paper and electronic finding aids of various depths and levels. The results reflect user views that are important to current professional practice. These range from heavy reliance on assistance from archivists to lack of awareness or very limited use of key online archival finding aids and related resources. Just as important was the strong desire for access to paper finding aids as well as electronic ones for research purposes. Convincing arguments were made for retaining both formats at a time when professional efforts have focused more on online delivery. RESUME Cet article est fonde sur les resultats d’une recherche doctorale qui a examine et evalue les methodologies de catalogage archivistique anciennes et courantes appliquees aux documents relatifs aux proprietes foncieres de longue date en Grande-Bretagne, du point de vue des utilisateurs de ces documents d’archives. Il rapporte les conclusions de panels qui ont explore l’opinion des utilisateurs par rapport a un echantillonnage d’instruments de recherche papier et numeriques de divers niveaux de description et de divers degres d’elaboration. Les resultats refletent des points de vue des utilisateurs qui sont importants a la pratique professionnelle courante. Ils se situent entre une forte dependance sur l’aide offerte par les archivistes et un manque de sensibilisation ou une utilisation peu frequente des instruments de recherche numeriques en ligne et du materiel connexe cles. Un constat tout aussi important est le desir des utilisateurs de pouvoir acceder aussi bien aux instruments de recherche papier qu’a ceux disponibles en format numerique, pour fins de recherche. Ils ont apporte des arguments convaincants pour la retention des deux formats alors que les efforts professionnels se sont surtout concentres sur la distribution en ligne.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".