Dear all- The 2021 General Assembly will be held on June 18, 16:00 CEST, on Zoom at https://psich.zoom.us/j/9208408267. The general assembly is open to all dues-paying BONSAI NGO members. There is a r

A new poll has been created: Please indicate your preferences for the BONSAI General Assembly 2021 by Friday, June 4. You can vote for more than one option. Times are in Central European Summer Time (

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+1 to waiting for consensus and tooling to make this trivial on existing repos. I will make a proposal to switch to main as the default branch name to the GA, and post an update when a decision is mad

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Here are my personal thoughts: There is a lot of work being done in the USA by various federal agencies, coordinated by the US EPA and supported by GreenDelta. This includes reproducible inventory bui

#dataliberation #communication

Dear BONSAI community- The 2020 general assembly will be held on Thursday, and is open to all paid members of BONSAI. Remember, active members qualify for a reduced enrollment rate of €50 - it isn't t

#dataliberation #communication

First draft is finished. I will be sending this to potential granting agencies/people on Friday, March 6; please provide comments (if any) before that, either on the mailing list, or by editing the te

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First rough draft of Spring 2020 proposal is here: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/hackathons/blob/master/2020-spring/proposal.md. Please provide feedback on mailing list or by editing the proposal tex

#communication

To be pedantic (but, you know, it is literally in the BEP that we are discussing), BEP0002 is accepted because one half of the active participants in BONSAI (defined as posting to the mailing list or

#bep0002

Dear all- I will be on the Slack channel #relational-db all day tomorrow, happy to discuss / answer questions / provide suggestions on what people can get started on. If you aren't on the BONSAI slack

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I have started a repo with the Bonsai ontology (to the best of my understanding) as a relational database schema here: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/schema (just a beginning, there are still issues!)

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YES

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Here are the slides from yesterday.

My notes from today's discussion, please respond with any points I missed! - Trase data is available already, should be examined by bonsai team - Trase tools should be open access (commitment exists)

I would like to propose we open a second work track for BONSAI: data liberation. The goal is to allow for more work to be done on interesting research questions and practical challenges in a distribut

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Time: Feb 21, 2020 03:00 PM Copenhagen Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/942489554 Meeting ID: 942 489 554 Agenda: TRASE presentation (Michael Lathuillière): 30 mins BONSAI presentation (Chris Mutel

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