Infrastructure Manifest (v. 1.0)—Paul Spence—Chapter 9—“Understanding Multilingualism in Digital Humanities Infrastructures”
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

Land infrastructure

For example, properties ceded, unceded, public, private, etc.

Include only principal land infrastructures.

  • Private land for home
  • Office space
Author Not Applicable Yes 7 7 7

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.

Computing equipment, including silicon, aluminum, gold, antimony, arsenic, beryllium, copper, cobalt, gallium, iron, lead, mercury, palladium, silver, zinc Author Not Applicable Yes 7 7 7

Energy infrastructure

For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication

Electricity and natural gas Author Not Applicable Yes 7 7 7

Transportation infrastructure

For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips

Occasional bus transport Transport companies Yes Yes 5 6 7

Architectural infrastructure

For example, buildings, labs, rooms

  • Home office space
  • College building
Author Yes Yes 7 7 7

Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure

For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc.

Broadband Government Not Applicable Yes 8 6 7

Institutional infrastructure

For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities

Library services and digital access University Yes Yes 7 7 7

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

Author’s time (compensated by university) University Yes Not Applicable 8 8 8

Research-content infrastructure

For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc.

  • Physical and online libraries
  • Research networks
University Yes Yes 8 7 8

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)

  • Microsoft Word
  • OneNote
  • Zoom
  • MS Teams
  • Zotero
  • Firefox
  • Notepad ++
University Yes Yes 8 7 7

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)

Zotero cloud storage, Google Drive, MS sharepoint/OneDrive provided by university. University Yes Yes 8 7 7

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.

Not Applicable Not Applicable
Other infrastructure Not Applicable Not Applicable

This infrastructure manifest was completed by Paul Spence and reports on Chapter 9, “Understanding Multilingualism in Digital Humanities Infrastructures.”