| 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. |
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Yes | Yes | 4 | 7 | 7 | The university campus is shared with different protagonists, question of jurisdiction is unclear, e.g. for police deployment on site. | |
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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. |
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Not Applicable | Yes | 9 | 9 | 6 | ||
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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 | 6 | 8 | 7 | ||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
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Yes | Not Applicable | 5 | 8 | 8 | |||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
Critical Media Lab and IXDM Research office at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW | University, heads of IXDM Research and Critical Media Lab. | Yes | Not Applicable | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
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Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc. |
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Yes | Yes | 8 | 8 | 7 | |||
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Institutional infrastructure For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities |
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Yes | Not Applicable | ||||||
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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 |
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Not Applicable | Yes | Ethical concerns regarding research on community and collective work. | |||||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
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Not Applicable | Yes | ||||||
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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) |
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Not Applicable | Yes | ||||||
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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) |
Cryptpad, Microsoft OneDrive, and Teams provided by university. | Not Applicable | Yes | ||||||
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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 | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | ||||||
| Other infrastructure | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
This infrastructure manifest was completed by Lucie Kolb and reports on Chapter 15, “Making Infrastructure Writable.”