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Can we use data from intermediary databases? #15

Closed teixeirak closed 3 years ago

teixeirak commented 3 years ago

Question to Vaalentyna, 5/3:

Can you use data from synthetic publications/ intermediary databases (a couple examples attached), or does each record need to be tracked to the original source? A lot of the records in ForC come from this type of source, and we can provide data much more efficiently if you can accept records from this sort of source.

teixeirak commented 3 years ago

from Valentyna:

  1. One of criteria for emission factor to be accepted by the Editorial Board members for further uploading to the EFDB is documentation. If synthetic publications/ intermediary databases have transparent description on the methodology applied to derive EFs (or have a brief description and a reference to the original source) and these EFs are actually present (not modified/rounded) in such data sources, it is ok for being further considered at the EFDB meeting.
teixeirak commented 3 years ago

This effectively means that we can't use intermediary databases, although there may be some exceptions. I have noted this in the draft manuscript.