ECOSYSTEM
LCA Collaboration Server
Seamless data exchange for LCA
All products, all standards, widest choice of data and methods.
More and more LCA and sustainability projects are performed in collaboration, be it:
- within a company in one team, on one location
- within one company, across different departments, and potentially in various locations
- in research projects, with several collaborating entities, companies and universities and consultancies, with potential worldwide distribution
- as consultancy, in collaboration with clients who co-develop a case study.
While these layouts call for a smooth, fluent data exchange, they are also challenging. Data may change in different locations simultaneously, and various, distributed life cycle models need to be synchronised – or rather, the synchronization needs to be managed, since sometimes it is good not to synchronise, but instead continue working with a local version. Since each dataset and life cycle model is carefully developed, it is essential to understand differences and changes before accepting a modified version to override an own model.
The LCA Collaboration Server, now in version 2.2, is developed to provide a solution for exactly this. It consists of a server application and additions in openLCA as LCA modeling software; both together allow a distributed, parallel collaboration for LCA and sustainability data set and model creation and management..
Working with the Collaboration Server
All products, all standards, widest choice of data and methods.
Distributed Workgroup
With one central collaboration server, two or more users can use the server to synchronise their local databases; user 1 commits, user 2 fetches (downloads) the changes, compares and merges with own data, commits (submits) merged data again to the server, where user 1 can obtain the changed data.
Publication Pipeline
onlineLCA allows literally hundreds of people to connect and perform specific LCA calculations, in line with premodeled LCAs, giving different persons different roles, with different privileges. Premodeled LCAs are done on openLCA, by a small expert group. Company information sources can be added, openLCA’s API and broad support for different data formats help to do this efficiently.
Download and Hosting
The LCA Collaboration Server is available for free via the download button in the top-right corner of this website. Additional hosting is offered by GreenDelta
Development
For requesting new features or reporting bugs please refer to our LCA Collaboration Server GitHub log.
Manual
For further information you can check out the LCA Collaboration Server Manual.
