How can I pass on my work within openLCA to someone else without including the entire database?

Question

Hello,

I would like to pass on the work I did with openLCA to another person. However, I would like to not send the entire database as it is quite large and as I also imported several other databases for my work. So is there a way to only pass on the important things I did myself like processes, global parameters, product systems and results?

thank you very much in advance

Answer 1

Yes, sure, you can select the product systems and processes etc. you did and export these as JSON-LD. This can be nicely imported by others. The product system contains all the processes included, and their flows, units, etc..

Be aware to not breach database license conditions, if you have ecoinvent or other licensed database processes in your product system, they will also be exported, so best is if the recipient of your data has the database license as well.

In openLCA version 2, this will be more structured, with libraries.