Template for Infrastructure Manifest v1.0 (PDF format)

This is the template in .pdf spreadsheet format for an infrastructure manifest. (See also the same template in Excel .xlxsformat.) The 18-row by 10-column spreadsheet is pre-structured with suggestions to authors of the chapters in this book about what kinds of infrastructure to declare. ROWS: there are rows for infrastructures under the following labels: “land,” “materials,” “energy,” “transportation,” “architectural,” “civic, community, national, or regional,” “institutional” “labor,” “research content,” “tools,” “networked platforms,” and “high-performance computing”). But the spreadsheet also allows authors to add other categories and to use free-form text in naming and describing infrastructure. The spreadsheet asks primarily for qualitative information and only some approximate quantitative data. COLUMNS: columns in the template ask for a description of each kind of infrastructure and also inquires about attributes of that infrastructure using true/false checkboxes or simple quantification on a Likert scale. (True/false attributes include “control point for access to or use,” “open source, open access, or public resource/utility,” and “proprietary.” Attributes to be scored on a 1 to 10 Likert scale include: “how heavily used?,” “reliability,” and “satisfaction for user.”) Other columns allow authors to register “ethical concerns” and add “comments.”