| 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. |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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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. |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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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 |
Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||
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Architectural infrastructure For example, buildings, labs, rooms |
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Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 6 | 4 | 8 | |||
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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 |
Faculty computer (MacBook Pro) | 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 |
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Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 7 | 10 | 10 | |||
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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 | 7 | 6 | 6 | |||
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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 | 7 | 6 | 6 | |||
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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) |
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Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 6 | 4 | 3 | |||
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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 | Existentiell infrastructure: academic job that justifies and in fact necessitates spending time, energy, and other resources on the production of writing that is itself not directly remunerative; primarily a cognitive schema (of sort what work can, should, and must be done, and how much of it) but supported by external systems and artifacts—for example, annual “PTR” (Promotion, Tenure, and Reappointment) reviews and the attendant documents in which the applicant for reappointment lists forthcoming and completed publications. | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 10 | 9 | 5 |
This infrastructure manifest was completed by Kyle Booten and reports on Chapter 19, “Subjective Functions: How Should Humanistic Research Be Quantified?”