Hi all, I'm back from ESWC'19 in Portorož, Slovenia. The conference is a well known venue for Semantic Web researchers and practitioners. I've presented our work with the poster and we were lucky enou

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

Dear all A couple of months ago I went to the openmod workshop in Aarhus. One of the “do-a-thons” was a discussion about the ontology of scenarios. They are trying to find common ways to express scena

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

For the first time, sustainable development, broadly defined and all-encompassing, has been enshrined in international policy discussions and quickly adopted by national governments, NGOs and the glob

Dear all, the Denmark-based Bonsamurais have thought to arrange a 2 days in-person workshop to follow-up on some of the open issues left after the hackathon. The idea is to refresh our memories and ho

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- 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- 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

Hi all, as mentioned already to some of you, I'm working on a tool that helps people without SPARQL know-how to explore large RDF data (like our Bonsai triplestore) This tool works best when the objec

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Hi everyone Stefano and I were having a discussion on the current and prospective conversion of Exiobase to RDF. Last week we concluded that we will not include the location on flowobject in the exiob

Hello at All, My Name is Matthias Dollfuss (27), I’m from Austria studying Eco-Design (Ecological Product-Development) at the University of Applied Science in Wieselburg. Before studying Eco-Design I

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

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

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

Hi BONSAI, I know that you have actively been working on data source metadata descriptions. I’ve been wanting to improve this for some of the tools in our ecosystem as well. Has anyone looked into usi

Dear all There have been several concerns about multiple communication channels in BONSAI which make it challenging to follow on what's going on and how to contribute. To resolve this issue, I suggest

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 would like to introduce Emil Riis Hansen to the Bonsai community. He has been recently employed as a research assistant with the computer science department at Aalborg University. Emil is i