The creation, management, and use of data quality information for life cycle assessment
The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentPublished 10 July 2017Open access
Ashley Edelen, Wesley W. Ingwersen
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This discussion paper addresses revisions to assessing data quality captured in a new US Environmental Protection Agency guidance document as well as additional recommendations on data quality creation, management, and use in LCA databases and studies.
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Additional ways in which data quality assessment might be improved and expanded are described. Interoperability efforts in LCA data should focus on descriptors to enable user scoring of data quality rather than translation of existing scores. Developing and using data quality indicators for additional dimensions of LCA data, and automation of data quality scoring through metadata extraction and comparison to goal and scope are needed.
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