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Public repository documenting the development of open science procedures and structures for industrial ecology, loosely connected to the Data Transparency Task Force (DTTF) of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
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Nomenclature for IO (and MFA/LCA?) #4

Open konstantinstadler opened 6 years ago

konstantinstadler commented 6 years ago

Hi Richard just asked me if we are discussing terminology in our group. After a short discussion, I am quite convinced that we should also make an effort to recommend a common nomenclature for variables commonly used in IndEcol. For example, currently L or B are used for the Leontief, S or F for the satellite accounts, ... I am not quite sure about the experiences in LCA/MFA but I suspect the same problems are present there.

For MRIO, I tried to summarize my understanding of the variable names here http://pymrio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/terminology.html

We can not enforce a specific nomenclature (its not biology...), but we can give strong recommendations. I know, that the whole matter is quite confusing for students and it would also help to quicker grasp algorithm in papers (and in code). Probably its also a good first starting point towards an ontology. Richard had/will also bring it up in the EEIO section of ISIE.

stefanpauliuk commented 6 years ago

Hi Konstantin,

I use exactly the same terminology, except for SY, what is that? FY per unit of Y?

konstantinstadler commented 6 years ago

Exactly, needed if you change the demand in the model