DHSI 2022 Conference & Colloquium Special Issue of IDEAH: Introduction

chaired by Caroline Winter (U Victoria).It was one of seven aligned conferences or events.As in the previous two years, the 2022 iteration of the Conference emphasis added).Chan's statement might conjure up images of precarious human pyramids or other acrobatic formations; more helpfully, and perhaps more to his point, we would argue that it serves as a helpful and necessary reminder of the human ingenuity, expertise, labour, and relationships that go into the creation and maintenance of digital infrastructure of any kind-of the tendency of infrastructure to be reliant on human factors.Chan illustrated this point with an image that, he noted, would likely resonate with many of us; indeed, some of us may identify with the lone researcher whose legacy project supports shaky digital infrastructure (Figure 1).For better or worse, then, we would echo Chan in asserting that if "infrastructure is people," it is also true that "infrastructure is relational."The question, perhaps, is how one can foster and maintain the human relationships that comprise digital infrastructure, ideally ensuring the long-term health and positive evolution of each.