| 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 for FLAME University, Pune (place of work) | FLAME University | Not Applicable | Yes | 7 | 9 | 9 | Environmental impacts | |
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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. |
Deskptop computer, laptop, mobile phone, paper, pens | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 10 | Environmental impacts | ||
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Energy infrastructure For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication |
Electricity | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 9 | 10 | Potential environmental impacts based on how it is produced. | ||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
Personal vehicle | Self | Not Applicable | Yes | 9 | 9 | 9 | ||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
Personal residence and office at FLAME University were my main workspaces | Self, Residence Welfare Association, and FLAME University | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 9 | ||
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Civic, community, national, or regional infrastructure For example, provided by cities, communities, governments, etc. |
Roads used for transportation | Maharashtra State Government | Yes | Not Applicable | 9 | 7 | 7 | ||
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Institutional infrastructure For example, equipment, services, and “overhead” or “indirect cost recovery” items for grants to universities |
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 nature of this labor market is very unstructured so getting appropriate staff and offering stability are challenges. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
Most of our library resources are found online, and through networked collections, often discovered through social media. In India generally also we are heavy users of shadow libraries and indeed grateful to pirate infrastructures. | Yes | Yes | 10 | 9 | 9 | |||
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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) |
The tools used for working on this chapter are as follows: Analog Tools
Computers
Operating system
Principal software tools
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Local point of access is personal but some tools like gmail and google docs are network or cloud based. | Not Applicable | Yes | 9 | 9 | 8 | ||
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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) |
Google Drive | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 9 | 8 | |||
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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 | ||||||||
| Other infrastructure |
This infrastructure manifest was completed by Maya Dodd and reports on Chapter 10, “What’s Missing: Studying DH and Critical Infrastructure in India.”