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Appendix E: The Federal Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) Digital Commons
Pages 61-62

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... This project adopts an open source, open standard, and open access approach for system development. Stated deliverables from the federal LCA Digital Commons include: • Peer-reviewed LCA data, which ensures validity and reliability for analyses by providing reliable and comprehensive data made available through open database access • Data preservation • Standards and protocols, which are open, practical, and matured standards to represent and exchange LCA data and models 1www.lcacommons.gov/ 61
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... 62 SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT CONSIDERATIONS • Nomenclatures, which provide a shared vocabulary and naming convention to represent LCA data and model LCA methods and practices • Tools to collect, organize, validate, analyze, and visualize LCA data and models, and services to facilitate activities in the LCA community
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