| 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 in the United Kingdom (London) contributed to concept development and writing the chapter/introduction to the book. Discussions between authors were conducted both online and in-person in the Virginia Woolf Building on Kingsway, at King’s College London on the Strand campus in central London. | King’s College London located in the City of Westminster, the city and borough of the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament and large portions of the British government. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
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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. |
Devices: personal laptop (MacBook), iPad, iPhone | MacBook was owned by King’s College London | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | Ethnographic data including interviews had to be carefully transferred to a new MacBook once it was returned to KCL. | |
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Energy infrastructure For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
London underground and buses used for a daily commute in London. | Easy access, although most of the work was conducted while working remotely from home. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 6 | 8 | 8 | ||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
Campus department buildings and offices at the King’s College London and living areas in London | University and department | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 6 | 10 | 10 | ||
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Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc. |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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Institutional infrastructure For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities |
Equipment, such as MacBook was provided by King’s College London and overheads were covered by the MSCA Horizon 2020, Europan Commission grant. | University and department | Not Applicable | 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 |
The member of King’s Digital Lab contributed to revising the list of tools and software. This was conducted over a couple of the lab’s meetings and a total of twelve people contributed to this process. | Easy, as it was carried out as part of the lab’s meetings. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 5 | 10 | 10 | ||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
Common materials, such as digital and print literature sources. | Some were purchased and some were publicly available online. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
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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) |
Python and Observable tool | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | ||||||
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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) |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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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 Ursula Pawlick-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel Vieira, and reports on Chapter 5 “Critical Studies of Tech Stacks: What Can Technologies Tell Us About a Lab Culture?”