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ecoinvent v3

ecoEditor for version 3

The freeware "ecoEditor for ecoinvent version 3" is the tool to create, edit, review and upload datasets for the future versions of the ecoinvent database (i.e. currently for version 3). It replaces the old (only internally used) ecoEditor 1 and the spreadsheet-based ecoSpoldAccess. The ecoEditor is free to use.

An introduction document is installed on your computer as part of this freeware tool; or you can download this document separately here. Additional instructions can be won from the following instructive videos that introduce the ecoEditor:

  

Correspondence documents: In addition, you can download here a report documenting the centrally implemented changes from ecoinvent v2.2 to version 3, with accompanying correspondence files for names and ID-numbers of activities and exchanges resp. of elementary exchanges from ecoinvent v2.2 to v3.

More information around this tool can be found also on our information notes concerning the WHY, the HOW as well as in the FAQ.

The ecoEditor also gives you access to the development version of the ecoinvent database version 3; in other words you have access to the latest accepted status of all unlinked datasets of the future version 3 of the ecoinvent database. With the ecoEditor tool you can download these datasets (e.g. in order to prepare a corrected version of these data or to establish a new dataset on the basis of one of the existing datasets) . The download requires a data provider account, for which you can apply directly from the software, and is limited to 10 datasets per day.

Please consider that currently the datasets in this development version are incomplete and only available for use in projects aiming to update these datasets specifically. They are not a valid template for new datasets, as they would not pass validation, and they should not be considered an example of how datasets will look like in version 3. Ecoinvent is processing the existing ecoinvent database internally and will release it in the new format with the release of version 3.

We hope that you will enjoy working with the ecoEditor tool and are looking forward to your contributions for the improvement and expansion of our unique database.

In case that you find a bug, or if you have comments/suggestions for improvements, please report this directly to our general manager, Bo Weidema.