Is data sharing in LCA FAIR

Data for Setac Abstract - 

In the light of rising awareness, and growing need of better data management across disciplines, it is pertinent to investigate how the FAIR principles are utilized in the LCA domain. The purpose of this research is to investigate the status quo of data sharing by LCA practitioners. This study will look into data shared in relation to research outputs (e.g. peer reviewed articles). The life cycle inventory (LCI) is the most common data that is re-used, hence this study investigates how the LCI is shared in peer reviewed articles. A review of the findability, accessibility, interoperability and re-usability of the LCI data of 25 peer reviewed articles was performed. This study highlights although there is growing awareness on the importance of data sharing , the lack of a clear guidelines within the LCA domain as well as limited infrastructure is a major barrier in implementing FAIR principles. Research data sharing is beyond the sole responsibility of individual researchers. The overall research and funding infrastructure must consider the diversity of practices, differences in fields, facilitate the sharing of a broad range of research outputs. Current gaps in academic data sharing can be seen as opportunities to build a common framework