CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Submit inventory data

Share your life cycle inventories for community review and reuse.

Start with your inventory files

Brightway Excel/CSV/TSV, openLCA JSON-LD ZIP packages, or SimaPro CSV. Up to 5 MB per file.

Only upload data you have the right to share, with credentials and confidential information removed.

Your submission stays private until an editor publishes an accepted version.

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Submission guide

Before you start
  • Export your inventories in one of the supported formats above.
  • Have a source note and the intended background database, version, and system model ready.
  • Choose a license and confirm your sharing rights.
  • Check files for credentials and unnecessary personal or confidential data.

See the license guidance and privacy notice.

From upload to publication
  1. Upload and validate. Fix blocking errors in your source files and upload again. Review warnings; they remain visible during review.
  2. Prepare drafts. Once blocking errors are resolved, generate drafts and complete their metadata.
  3. Submit for review. An editor assigns reviewers. Respond to their feedback before the editor makes a decision.

Editors and assigned reviewers can access submitted material during review. It becomes public only when an editor publishes an accepted version.

CLIC is a non-commercial platform run by researchers, with inventory validation, background linking, and exports for common LCA tools.

Quality checklist before review
  • Resolve blocking errors and review validation warnings.
  • Describe technology, geography, time period, data quality, methods, and system boundary.
  • Include relevant product properties: LHV, density, moisture basis, carbon content, or CAS number.
  • Cite references and explain data origins and modelling assumptions.
  • Check relevant material balances, such as carbon or water.

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Exporting a SimaPro CSV
  1. Select the processes, then choose File → Export (not “Export SimaPro database”).
  2. Export CSV with Convert expressions to constants.
  3. Use a period (.) as the decimal separator.

Check the CSV before upload and retain the original export as your source record.