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

Maybe easier to split it up into actual URLs: Note that the following is just one possibility, and will be changed now and in the future. Our aim is to make such changes easy. bonsai.uno Homepage Visi

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Next catch-up meeting We will have another catch-up meeting on 12.4.19 at 15:00 CEST, and then skip the next week (19.4.19) due to Easter holidays. 5.4.19 Catch-up meeting minutes Correspondence table

Dear all- 1. If you haven't voted for or against BEP 1, please do it now! If not enough people participate, the proposal will automatically fail. 2. We have had a lively discussion on the terminology

I have created a bonsai.uno repo, which we need to fill out, to eventually replace the existing content of the website (this is included in BEP 4). The current website structure looks like: Homepage C

I added a table with what I could make of the existing systems, and the possible alternatives we have discussed, here: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/BONSAI-ontology-RDF-framework/blob/master/Terminol

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