In conversation with Vincent Giard: A decade taking care of a little colossus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter covers the decade in which the Canadian alternative BD gravitated around the figure of Vincent Giard, with the invaluable help of a direct dialogue with the author/publisher himself. As locomotive, he moved through several tiers: Colosse, a self-federated zine label; La Mauvaise Tête, first a collective, then a traditional publishing house; la Maison de la Bande Dessinée, a workshop that becomes a focal point of the (g)local scene; Les 48 Heures de la BD, a festival; even through the organized political activism. For most people involved, starting with Giard himself, this is a finished story or at least a closed chapter. After seven years, on May 29, 2019, the publishing house La Mauvaise Tête closed down. For a time, it ran in parallel with Colosse, an experiment of “nanotirages introuvables” (impossible to find nano-editions).
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
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".