EUDAT Porto Conference 2018

1. A BONSAI at EUDAT
summer-school
EUDAT Conference Jan 24th 2018
Michele De Rosa

2. BONSAI: Data for Industrial Ecology
Industrial Ecology: Study of material and energy flows
through industrial systems
OPEN ACCESS database and OPEN SOURCE software
www.bonsai.uno
Industrial economy seen as a network of industrial
processes
Objective: to evaluate the environmental impacts of
such networks: resource extraction, emissions, carbon
footprint, etc.
Interdisciplinary field: engineers, economists,
toxicology, sociologists, natural scientists…

3. The summer school experience
Competence, completeness, cooperative.
Better definition of the target audience
Distribute reading material in advance
Focus the school more on hands-on (with more
time)
The services shall be operational

4. Industrial Ecology’s bottleneck
Multiple commercial databases with
linked unit process data
Study
Data not consistent, not free,
not interoperable

5. Industrial Ecology’s bottleneck
Each unit process the result of an
individual project
Built ad hoc by
experts
Costly
Become outdated
quickly

6. BONSAI wish-list for EOSC
Allowing crowd-based data reviewing
Harmonization of ontologies and metadata
Embedding a rewarding mechanism for data
sharing
User-friendly semantic web apps (B2NOTE)
Organizing communities (data users, data
suppliers and domain-specific experts)

7. Thank you for your attention
Email:
michele.derosa@bonsai.uno