ISDATA.ORGInformation Symbiosis

DATABASE COMMITTEE ORGANIZER: The Eco-Industrial Development Council (EIDC) Section of the International Society of Industrial Ecology COMMITTEE PARTNERS:-The National Technical University of Athens, Greece -The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden-Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Structure data relevant to industrial symbiosis into a central data store.

Allow for and enable the construction of varied end-use applications for the research of and

facilitation of industrial symbiosis.

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Relevant Datasets: For Dataplumbing - DATASYMBIOSIS

Material Flows/Waste/Industrial/Symbiosis Specific/Thesauri

Grant, Gabriel B., Thomas P. Seager, Guillaume Massard, and Loring Nies. “Information and Communication Technology for Industrial Symbiosis.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 14, no. 5 (2010): 740–753.

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To begin with, work has commenced on :

• Creating a common namespace

• Expanding upon and standardizing the information available from IS case studies

• Collecting and creating data describing materials according to their key properties

Examples of data – Material Flow

IS Data @ IE.TUDELFT.NL

Property Data

Waste Data

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Examples of Potential End Uses:

-Web based matching tools-Consultant tools for enabling strategic facilitation-Plugins for popular web business platforms to actively promote new symbiosis-Research tools for comparing symbiosis scenarios-National potential analysis applications-EIP Support applications

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