Infrastructure Manifest (v. 1.0)—Maya Dodd—Chapter 10—“What’s Missing: Studying DH and Critical Infrastructure in India”
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.

Land for FLAME University, Pune (place of work) FLAME University Not Applicable Yes 7 9 9 Environmental impacts

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

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.

Transportation infrastructure

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

Personal vehicle Self Not Applicable Yes 9 9 9

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

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

Institutional infrastructure

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

Not Applicable Not Applicable

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

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

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
  • Paper
  • Pens
  • Pencils
Computers
  • Personal laptop
    • How heavily used: 10
    • Reliability: 9
    • Satisfaction: 7
Operating system
  • Windows 11
    • How heavily used: 10
    • Reliability: 8
    • Satisfaction: 7
Principal software tools
  • Bibliography Tool
    • Zotero
      • Use level: 7
      • Reliability: 10
      • Satisfaction: 9
  • Word Processors
    • Word
    • Google Doc
      • How heavily used: 10
      • Reliability: 9
      • Satisfaction: 7
  • Email tool
    • Gmail
      • How heavily used: 8
      • Reliability: 9
      • Satisfaction: 9
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

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

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.”