Resources & download
Knowledge Base, Java Doc
The javadoc documentation of the converter API, the first Java documentation we built for the openLCA project, is available here.
Resources
This section contains documents ready to download and links to useful information. It will expand with project progress.
Ecoinvent licences for openLCA
The ecoinvent Centre, home of the famous ecoinvent database, has granted GreenDeltaTC an ecoinvent reseller status (thanks!); we are proud to offer ecoinvent licences that allow you to integrate all the ecoinvent data in openLCA. Please find fax order forms (in German and English) below.
ecoinvent LCIA methods for openLCA
With permission of the ecoinvent centre, we post here the most recent LCIA methods that fit to the ecoinvent database. Please download the file from here:
impact-methods.zipImport the LCIA methods into openLCA as one archive, as EcoSpold file.
Newsletter
3rd Newsletter, November 2007: Format converter schedule, examples for the LCA application and openLCA Framework, including screenshots from Windows and Linux, and: website (!)
User manuals and technical documents
Software requirements specify how the software will look like that we have committed to create. Requirements will be modified and become more specific in the course of the project, also as a result of input from the Funding Consortium. This is the actual version.
NEW: The converter mapping documentation for the EcoSpold and ELCD format. This documentation shows in detail how both formats are converted from one into the other, from EcoSpold to ECLD and from ELCD to EcoSpold. The conversion is evaluated in each case, according to four criteria, requirement, occurence, nomenclature/pattern and data type. It is available as a zip file below, and also on the web: EcoSpold to ECLD mapping here, and ELCD to EcoSpold mapping here.
NEW, 2: FINALLY, there is some training material available for openLCA, see the link below - and you can book us for a qualified training, remotely, in your offices, in our offices in Berlin, Germany, or at another convenient location. If you are interested, contact us via the contact form. Thanks!
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How to install and use the source code
Since there were some questions we have written a short doc that explains how to import the sources (available from our sourceforge site) into Eclipse.
Additionally we have put together various plugins that you need in your Eclipse version to work with the source code (and that you would have to pull together from different sources otherwise).
Both the compressed "additional libraries" folder and the documentation are available below:
http://openlca.org/uploads/media/additionallibraries.zip
http://openlca.org/uploads/media/how_to_import_the_openLCA_source_code_into_Eclipse.pdf
Case studies
Please find below case study examples, to be imported in the openLCA LCA application.
The first one is a photovoltaic case study, conducted by ECN in the Netherlands. Thanks to Mariska and colleagues for the permission to use this interesting case! The archive contains EcoSpold files that can be imported in both versions of openLCA, 1 and 1.1.
The short documentation explains necessary steps.
Licenses
GNU General Public Licence (GPL) and Mozilla Public Licence (MPL 1.1), both in full text and as they are reflected in the software. The license section explains their use.
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Our Sourceforge Site
Sourceforge.net is one of the largest and most known hosts for open source code. Hosting on sourceforge means that the source code is available also independent from this project.
The openLCA project has been granted webspace at sourceforge.net.
Our site "there" is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openlca.
We will put stable releases on this site, and will anounce it here and also in our newsletter.
Project presentations, announcements
| General project presentation, March 2007 | 2.6 M |
| Project presentation International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, edition June 2007 | 143 K |