| 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. |
Most of the research and writing took place at Seoul National University’s Gwanak Campus and the University of Hong Kong’s Centennial Campus. | Both are public universities. | Yes | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | I have not encountered any ethical concerns. | |
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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. |
MacBook Pro (M1 Max 16 inch) and multiple LG 4k monitors. They use rare-earth elements that may produce radioactive pollutants similar to the materials identified in Alan Liu’s manifest for the introductory chapter. In my case, I don’t use neodymium and dysprosium, as I have stopped using HDDs regularly since 2009. | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 10 | 10 | Rare-earth minerals used in my laptop battery and monitors creating radioactive pollutants during the extraction process. | ||
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Energy infrastructure For example, principal energy sources and infrastructure used in research, production, and communication |
Electricity and internet access provided by Seoul National University and Honk Kong University IT Services. | Available to all university staff members | Yes | Not Applicable | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
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Transportation infrastructure For example, private or public transportation needed for daily or research trips |
Cathay Pacific international return flight between Hong Kong and Frankfurt, as well as intra-European SAS connecting flights to and from Oslo and Longyearbyen. | Not Applicable | Yes | 9 | 9 | Environmental damage due to jet fuel burned during flights. | |||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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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 |
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 |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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Research-content infrastructure For example, physical libraries and archives, online research materials, shadow libraries, etc. |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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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) |
Microsoft Word to create and edit the manuscripts at various stages. Microsoft Excel to organize the HDD and SSD benchmark data and generate charts. | Not Applicable | Yes | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||
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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) |
Collaboration with co-author Ian M. Miller using Google Docs and Zoom. | Not Applicable | Yes | 6 | 9 | 10 | |||
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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 Martin Javier Cha and reports on Chapter 7, “Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data.”