Re: Collaboration between US EPA and BONSAI
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Ingwersen, Wesley
Dear Chris and BONSAI group,
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This is a great suggestion to put some effort into briefing each other on our activities in building open data and models for LCA and brainstorm about how we and where we might collaborate. Chris I will work with you to try to schedule meetings to get this started. Regards, Wes Wesley W. Ingwersen, Ph.D. Environmental Decision Analytics Branch/Land Remediation and Technology Division Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response (CESER) US EPA Office of Research and Development 61 Forsyth Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30303
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From: Christopher Mutel <cmutel@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 5:03 PM To: Ingwersen, Wesley <ingwersen.wesley@epa.gov>; main@bonsai.groups.io Subject: Collaboration between US EPA and BONSAI Dear all- Though you might not have heard about it, the US EPA has made a major commitment towards building an open data and open source toolchain for LCA, primarily for supporting projects by federal agencies in the US. This includes: * Almost 10.000 activities provided as open linked data (in JSON-LD) format via lcacommons.gov * Very active Github repos on elementary flows lists (https://github.com/USEPA/Federal-LCA-Commons-Elementary-Flow-List), standardizing, processing, and releasing electricity inventories (https://github.com/USEPA/ElectricityLCI), a detailed EEIO table for the US (https://github.com/USEPA/USEEIO), and standardizing and working with LCIA method implementations (https://github.com/USEPA/LCIAformatter). I think BONSAI both has a lot to learn from, and a lot to contribute to, this effort. As such, I think we urgently should get to know each other a bit. One possibility would be a 1-2 hour teleconference, where we each present our work, and discuss practical steps towards how we can help each other. Wes, please let us know if you would be interested (BONSAI is an open organization, you join by posting to the mailing list). To everyone else, please think a bit about a) where people who have to produce a complete working LCA system are choosing to invest their time, and whether there are any lessons for BONSAI, and b) why we have not been invited to be a part of this effort so far (what have been our weaknesses?). BONSAI is both a concrete set of source code repositories and a network of experts who are passionate about changing the status quo, we need to do a better job of helping people down productive paths and benefiting from our experience (see also a few more mails coming from me this evening :) -Chris -- ############################ Chris Mutel Technology Assessment Group, LEA Paul Scherrer Institut OHSA D22 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland http://chris.mutel.org Telefon: +41 56 310 5787 ############################
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