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Yes, though it may be best to think of it as scaffolding rather than creating a public.  There are a few.  The project should scaffold and animate-- the intergenerational group of researchers working on the project (mostly co-located at UCI)-- a network of environmental justice educators and researchers (linked through the Beyond Environmental Injustice Research and Teaching Collective)-- MPNA-GREEN, the community-based, place-focused environmental organization

I have done extensive field research in India and the United States, and have active collaborations in East Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Cambodia) -- mostly focused on people and places dealing with significant environmental vulnerability and harms. I've worked ethnographically with many environmental activists and health scientists who do very impressive data work -- that has inspired by investment in digital research infrastructure and archive ethnography.  

For about a decade, I'll been very involved in the development of the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), open source  software supporting virtual research environments. PECE  is now freely available as a Drupal distro on GitHub.

This archive is hosted by the disasterSTS-PECE, which is run by the PECE Design Group on servers at University of California Irvine. 

We have begun to think about a few user groups that need to be connected:-- involved researchers.  This is harder than it would seem: researchers in a small group can add content to the archive and others in the group not know about it.

-- The archive is designed to support teaching -- in university and K-12 classroom, and in the community (though workshops, etc), drawing students in as researchers and archive content creators. -- The archive should also support, preserve and share the toxic tours run by MPNA-GREEN.

From my narrative bio: "A recurrent focus of my  research has been on ways knowledge infrastructure subtends both environmental vulnerability and capacity to recognize and address such vulnerability. I have thus become increasingly invested in understanding and helping build knowledge infrastructure (including innovative educational programs at all levels, supporting technical infrastructure, public data resources, analytic and visualization capabilities, and the organizational forms needed to support and connect these).

We've used artifact bundles-- to collect material related to events where we do participant observation. See, for example, the artifact bundle associated with the Santa Ana City Council Meeting (4-19-2022).-- to collect material relevant to organizational profiles that we are building for the project.

This collection of differently  themed oral histories -- in the South Asian American Digital Archive that Gina pointed us to -- gives good ideas for how oral histories could be collected and presented in communities where we are working on environmental injustice -- community members and research interns could propose themes then lead collaborative development of a thematic collection. 

I see this archive as potentially being of interest to a number of groups: