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Yes - hosted at the Disaster STS Network https://disaster-sts-network.org/content/urequ%C3%ADo-infrastructure-ar…

At the moment, I have been taking fieldnotes by hand but once I begin to transition away from regularly scheduled interviews & begin more deliberate and structured data analysis, I can see myself using these as a place to publically share some fieldnotes.

Images, videos, text, PDFs

I’ve used artifact bundles to gather newspaper articles and reports regarding environmental issues in Southern California, particularly Wilmington and Long Beach. At first, this was a separate PECE essay but I found the bundles a much better use of space & easier to visualize.

As I continue to gather more photos and images, I think one photo essay could be on current photos of Urequio’s natural wells, which are all named and had a use (most have dried up, some have been blocked up, and one or two are being restored). Another idea is for a photo essay representing irrigation of the agricultural fields, and another for the infrastructure for running water. Together, I think these can represent the multiplicity of Urequio’s water infrastructure histories.

A timeline of infrastructure projects in Urequio could be really interesting to develop. I have some of this information already through interviews, but for many keystone events I only have approximate dates or a year range. Additionally, I am still missing images and videos to encapsulate those events.

I’ve built the Urequio Infrastructure Archive PECE essay page, and through trial and error have at this stage build several other PECE essays that I’ve linked to in the primary Urequio Infrastructure Archive page. These are a page for videos of Urequio, photos of Urequio, and key infrastructure events (such as the building of the potable water system).

I previously used analytics for the literature review in my documents to advance to candidacy; although I didn’t upload a large part of my notes to PECE, I can see the utility in the practice and I think I would do it differently next time. I also currently have the following analytic for analyzing my fieldnotes - https://disaster-sts-network.org/structured-analytics-questions-set/urequ%C3%ADola-fieldnotes 

At the moment, the lead curator is myself, Gina Hakim (ghakim@uci.edu). In the future, as I gather more materials, I can imagine this expanding as it connects to the work of other people working on infrastructure archives and community members.

Currently, it’s articulated in the following way on the archive PECE essay: “What are the ways to tell a community's infrastructural history? This section contains experimentations with the features of the PECE platform to communicate the histories of public goods infrastructure in Urequío.”