Session 20: How to contribute to the Industrial Ecology Data Commons - Critical Mass Sprint 2025
2025 is the year when we move the industrial ecology data commons prototype (IEDC), launched in 2018, into a functional and helpful data archiving and retrieval tool for the entire industrial ecology community! You can access the database via https://www.database.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de/
Our goal is that by the end of 2025, the IEDC contains enough product and material-related data that searching the IEDC becomes a useful screening step and first iteration for data collection for MFA and LCA researchers, consultants, and students alike. With its focus on products and commodities, the IEDC could even become an ‘LCA foreground database’, next to serving socio-metabolic and industrial ecology research in general.
Why should you contribute? Submitting your data to the IEDC is free advertisement for your research and data! Most datasets are searchable by the name of the first author of the corresponding publication. Submitting your data to the IEDC increases the visibility of your research, and it helps others build on your work in their own research. A strong community database increases the visibility of the entire field and leads to better research output via the use of more comprehensive and up-to-date data.
How can I contribute? This will be explained during this webinar. Looking forward to see you there!
Details can also be found here: https://www.blog.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de/index.php/2025/03/03/2025-iedc-critical-mass-sprint/
Zoom link:
https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/bHr8TJdJSEudZ5-XkKc7AA
Host:
Stefan Pauliuk, University of Freiburg, Germany