| Infrastructure Type | Descriptiona |
Control point for access to or useb For example, identify the owner, regulator, manager, etc. as appropriate |
Open Source, Open Access, or Public Resource/Utilityc | Proprietaryc | How heavily used?d | Reliabilityd | Satisfaction for Userd | Ethical concerns (known or possible) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Land infrastructure For example, properties ceded, unceded, public, private, etc. Include only principal land infrastructures. |
Land for FLAME University, Pune (space of both work and residence) | FLAME University | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 9 | ||
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Materials infrastructure For example, notable common or rare extracted or other materials used in research, production, and communication. Break down by notable materials used in devices or tools if appropriate. |
Laptop, mobile phone, paper, pens | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 10 | Environmental impacts | ||
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Energy infrastructure For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication |
Electricity | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 9 | 10 | Environmental impacts | ||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
Public transportation | University and self | Yes | Not Applicable | 6 | 9 | 8 | ||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
My place of residence within the FLAME University campus was my main workspace. | FLAME University | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 8 | 8 | ||
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Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc. |
Roads used for transportation | Maharashtra State Government | Yes | Not Applicable | 6 | 7 | 7 | ||
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Institutional infrastructure For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities |
Residence on campus | FLAME University | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 8 | 8 | ||
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Labor infrastructure For example, type and amount of labor from collaborators, staff, research assistants; include any attributes that seem important, such as unrecognized, unpaid, low-paid, outsourced, or other attributes of labor |
Exchanges with co-author to ideate, shape and revise the chapter; FLAME University maintenance staff for help in regular upkeep of workspace | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 9 | 9 | |||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
FLAME University Library (physcial and online linked collections and subscriptions) | Yes | Yes | 10 | 9 | 9 | |||
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Tools infrastructure For example, principal analog tools and digital tools, scripts, or protocols used for research, writing, communication, production (excluding high-performance computing, for which see below) |
The tools used for working on this chapter are as follows: Analog Tools
Computers
Operating system
Principal software tools
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Local point of access is personal but some tools like gmail and google docs are network or cloud based. | Not Applicable | Yes | 9 | 9 | 8 | ||
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Networked Platforms infrastructure For example, major networked or cloud platforms used for research, storage, analysis, sharing, communication, publication—Google Drive, Dropbox, AWS, etc. (excluding high-performance computing, for which see below) |
Google Drive | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 8 | |||
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High-performance computing infrastructure Here defined expansively to include the use not just of supercomputers and computer clusters or grids but any high-performance computing infrastructure or special GPU and other processors exceeding the capabilities of an individual workstation, laptop, or server. |
None | ||||||||
| Other infrastructure |
This infrastructure manifest was completed by Sharika Parmar and reports on Chapter 10, “What’s Missing: Studying DH and Critical Infrastructure in India.”