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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Life Cycle Assess. 2017 Jul 1;2017:01–13. doi: 10.1007/s11367-017-1354-3

Table 1.

Flow data and metadata fields collected for analysis

Classification Examples
Data Flow Flowable (flow name), flow unit (kg), flow property (mass)
Metadata Flow clarifiers CAS, formula and synonym
Flow context (up to three fields) Flow directionality (input/output) and compartment
Flow identifiers Flowable ID, flow unit ID, flow property ID and context IDs
Flow general information Source, description, version