The Aalborg BONSAI contingent and visitors are running a mini-hack-a-thon Jan. 20 & 21 to make progress on finalizing the Exiobase import into the BONSAI ontology. During this time, we have prepared t

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Dear all- Bo noticed that the Yale MFA database has finally been publicly released. This is a very nice opportunity to apply our tools and ontology, as it will both require us to get a specific implem

Dear all- After a successful introduction to the work being done by the US EPA, we will have two more presentations from projects where there could be exchanges of data and ideas. On January 10, 2020,

Dear all- I have reached out to the TRASE project (https://trase.earth/), and they would be interested in presenting their project to us and getting some idea of how we could work together. They have

Dear all- PSI and LIST are part of a consortium of research groups trying to make prospective LCA better. To accomplish this, we have decided to create a standard implementation merging LCI databases

Reminder that Wes will be presenting today in one hour. Here are the connection data: Time: Nov 22, 2019 03:00 PM Copenhagen Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/799298250 Meeting ID: 799 298 250 Find

Dear all- I would like to invite Wes Ingwersen to present the work that the US EPA is doing on open data infrastructure and associated efforts to the BONSAI group. We have had a "hang out" on Friday a

Thanks Bo, this is clear and (at least in my opinion) completely consistent with all group decisions. Maybe I just missed it - entirely possible! - but the issue discussions did not seem to have this

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Please see https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/EXIOBASE-conversion-software/issues/5, and add your input (or reply to this email).

Sorry, I don't want to be a pain in the ass, but I think we are going a bit down the raod of Stalin's ideological purity here... In an ideal world, we would have separate sources of trade data, and co

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Indeed, this was not clear. Sorry. I was referring to https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/data-package/ and https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/tabular-data-resource/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tid

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OK, but we can just... ignore... this location? Each national S or U table by definition only has one location anyway. In any case, I don't think there needs to be a discussion here, as our ontology d

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Sorry for chiming in late here. +1 to the idea of only using the publicly available data, it seems to me a very unnecessary and dangerous step to start using private (and unlicensed!) data at the begi

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Dear all- Disclaimer: The following could all be incorrect, it's late, I'm tired, people make mistakes, etc. As far as I know, there are currently three initiatives started recently to build large, op

Dear all- I recently had the pleasure of getting to know Thomas Maël, and exchanging messages on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186182). Thomas is the author of https://futur.eco/

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

Dear fellow Bonsamurais- Just a quick note to let you know that I am currently at the International Emissions Inventory conference (agenda here) hosted by the US EPA. I will be presenting BONSAI, and

Dear all- I just had a productive conversation with Javier Godar and Michael Lathuillière from the TRASE project (https://trase.earth/). They are doing some really nice work (and already have some nic

After a community vote on nomenclature, we are essentially tied between the following options: "flow object", "item", "flow item." This vote was announced as informative and non-binding, so it is up t

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FYI: 1. The vote on BEP 1 is trending towards acceptance; the voting will stop if two more people participate and approve. 2. We currently have 5 votes in our nomenclature discussion. Here are the ave