IntroductionNew platforms are emerging that enable more data providers to publish life cycle inventory data.BackgroundProviding datasets that are not complete LCA models results in fragments that are difficult for practitioners to integrate and use for LCA modeling. Additionally, when proxies are used to provide a technosphere input to a process that was not originally intended by the process authors, in most LCA software, this requires modifying the original process.ResultsThe use of a bridge process, which is a process created to link two existing processes, is proposed as a solution.DiscussionBenefits to bridge processes include increasing model transparency, facilitating dataset sharing and integration without compromising original dataset integrity and independence, providing a structure with which to make the data quality associated with process linkages explicit, and increasing model flexibility in the case that multiple bridges are provided. A drawback is that they add additional processes to existing LCA models which will increase their size.ConclusionsBridge processes can be an enabler in allowing users to integrate new datasets without modifying them to link to background databases or other processes they have available. They may not be the ideal long-term solution but provide a solution that works within the existing LCA data model.

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桥接流程：独立于后台数据库的 LCI 数据集解决方案

简介新平台的不断涌现，使更多数据提供商能够发布生命周期库存数据。背景提供不完整的 LCA 模型数据集会导致从业者难以集成和用于 LCA 建模的碎片。此外，当代理用于向流程作者提供并非最初意图的流程输入时，在大多数 LCA 软件中，这需要修改原始流程。结果使用桥接流程，这是为链接而创建的流程提出了两个现有流程作为解决方案。讨论桥接流程的好处包括提高模型透明度，促进数据集共享和集成，而不损害原始数据集的完整性和独立性，提供一种结构，使与流程链接相关的数据质量明确，并增加在提供多个桥的情况下模型的灵活性。缺点是它们向现有 LCA 模型添加了额外的流程，这将增加其规模。ConclusionsBridge 流程可以成为允许用户集成新数据集的推动者，而无需修改它们以链接到后台数据库或可用的其他流程。它们可能不是理想的长期解决方案，但提供了在现有 LCA 数据模型中工作的解决方案。