LCAnet is a modular ontology for representing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) knowledge, including activities, flows, actors, spatiotemporal aspects, properties, and impact assessment results.
core/— core ontology concepts and cross-module relationsactivity/— activities, processes, and flow relationsactor/— agents and organizational entitiesst/— spatiotemporal concepts and scalesproperty/— properties for quantity and quality valuesia/— impact assessment concepts and resultsICdata/— populated use case and example dataLCAnet-architecture.svg— ontology architecture diagramCQs.md— competency questions and SPARQL validation queries
The competency questions (CQs) used to validate the ontology and their corresponding SPARQL queries are available in:
The ontology modules can be imported into RDF/OWL tools such as:
- Protégé
- GraphDB
SPARQL queries can be executed on the populated dataset provided in ICdata/.
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