| 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. |
I am work flexibly. Most of my teaching is done at three campuses of Nanjing University in Nanjing, three pieces of lands owned by the government. I do not read or write at my office because it is shared with another associate professor. I have my own working studio near the main campus, which was rented from its owner during the Covid quarantine period as the campus was closed and I had to meet with my collaborators from time to time. I also work at home, a property owned by myself. I finished the revision of this paper at a King’s College London dormitory on Great Dover street when I was a visiting scholar of King’s College London. |
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Yes | Yes | 10 | 10 | 7 | Ethical considerations are the legitimacy of issues raised by the use of school assets, such as laptops and projectors, in different locations, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. | |
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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. |
Major parts of my car, laptop, and mobile phones are manufactured in China but labeled with foreign brands. | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 8 | 8 | The main ethical concern is environmental impact. | ||
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Energy infrastructure For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication |
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Yes | Yes | 10 | 8 | 7 | The main ethical concern is environmental impact. | ||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
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The high speed train is owned by the state. | Yes | Yes | 10 | 9 | 9 | High speed train speeds up our daily life. | |
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
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Yes | Not Applicable | 10 | 9 | 7 | How to evaluate the activities conducted at the different locations. | |
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Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc. |
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Yes | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||
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Institutional infrastructure For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities |
My iMac computer is sponsored by school. There is no specific labor support from my institutes. | University | Yes | Not Applicable | 10 | 8 | 6 | ||
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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 |
I deeply appreciate my co-author and book editors for their efforts and time. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
I stopped visiting the university libraries a couple of years ago because the books and artworks I require cannot be found at the NJU libraries. I mostly rely on my own book collection and online resources.
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The most of them are owned by the commercial company or NGO and vendor of internet services. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 8 | Shadow library has ethical and legal issues, as does VPN software. | |
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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) |
Analog tools (for team discussion)
Computers
Operating system
Principal software tool
Bibliography tool
Notes tool
Word processors (from most to least used)
Spreadsheet tools
Image and graphics editing/creation tools
Email tool
Collaboration platform/chat tool
Writing aids tools
Coding tools
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Yes | Yes | 10 | 9 | 8 | The copyright issue of open source code. | ||
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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) |
Storage
Productivity software in cloud
Collaboration platforms and services
Social media
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Yes | Yes | 10 | 8 | 7 | Privacy of the data uploaded to cloud storage and social media, especially when social media became the primary platform for working information exchange. | ||
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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. |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
| Other infrastructure | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
This infrastructure manifest was completed by Jing Chen and reports on Chapter 11, “Connecting Digital Systems by Whom and for Whom? Taking Stock of the Digital Humanities Infrastructures in China.”