Infrastructure Manifest (v. 1.0)—Martin Paul Eve—Chapter 6—“Shadow Libraries and Pirate 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 and office space Author Not Applicable Yes 10 10 10

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 10 9 10

Energy infrastructure

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

Electricity (green source) and natural gas Author Not Applicable Yes 10 9 10

Transportation infrastructure

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

Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable

Architectural infrastructure

For example, buildings, labs, rooms

Home and office space Author Not Applicable Yes 10 10 10

Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure

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

  • National health service
  • Dialysis/kidney service
  • Broadband
Government Yes Not Applicable 8 9 8

Institutional infrastructure

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

Library services and digital access University Not Applicable Yes 9 7 6

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)
  • Spousal support regarding domestic tasks (unpaid)
  • University
  • Author
  • Wife
Not Applicable Yes 10 8 10

Research-content infrastructure

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

See Institutional Infrastructure Not Applicable Not Applicable

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)

  • Libreoffice
  • Zotero
  • Linux
  • Firefox
  • Rsync
  • Unison
Yes Not Applicable 10 7 9

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)

Not Applicable Yes 5 9 9

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 Martin Paul Eve and reports on Chapter 6, “Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures.”