Data Quality Guidelines
This new report contains the adapted and extended quality guidelines, established in order to ensure also in the new ecoinvent v3 database a coherent data acquisition and reporting across the various activity areas and data providers involved.
This encompasses definitions of the different types of datasets, the level of detail required, how completeness is ensured, good practice for documentation, naming conventions, and rules for the reporting of uncertainty. Furthermore, this document covers also the procedures for validation, review, and embedding new datasets into the database as well as the calculation procedures for attributional and consequential models, and for arriving at the accumulated results for product systems.
--> A second DRAFT version of this new report can be found here.