Mapping the Strata of the Strasbourg-Kehl Border
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Abstract
In October 2023, as part of the conference Borders in the English-Speaking World: Mapping & Counter-Mapping, two artist-researcher collectives (the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit or HPU, and In/Terminus) held a "walkshop" across the Rhine River, the border between Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany.In her introduction to the workbook of maps and prompts given to each participant, Gwen Cressman, co-organizer of the conference, writes thusly about this border: Moving and complex, the border between Kehl and Strasbourg has changed national affiliations twelve times since Louis XIV conquered Strasbourg in 1681.Whereas the space is marked by successive wars and frequent political change, Karen Denni also shows that border practices and the human relations it entails have been slower to evolve (Denni, 2012).Despite the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, which initiated the construction of a political and economic Europe, it would take many years for the project to overcome the borders that history had erected between France and Germany.Efforts to erase the border have recently culminated with the inauguration of the Passerelle des Deux Rives in 2004, the effective disappearance of the border post on the Pont de l'Europe in 2009, and the re-establishment of the streetcar line from the center of Strasbourg to Kehl in 2017, 73 years after its closure at the end of the Second World War.While there are no physical obstacles to the crossing of the Rhine, differences in language, signage, architecture, legislation and lifestyles continue to exert "their separating effects."(Denni, 23)
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 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".