Antelope core implementation

This package includes the reference version of Antelope life cycle assessment (LCA) software.
Antelope simplifies the practice of LCA by creating different interfaces that handle different parts of the computational problem.

Conceptual Overview

The antelope_interface declares a set of interfaces and creates a set of EntityRef catalog-reference classes for referring to LCA data objects. It is up to an implementation (i.e. this repo) to create working code for those objects.

The present package provides a reference implementation for quantities, flows, and processes, which are the essential data types or "entities" for LCA computation. It includes a set of providers, which translate different data sources (ecospold and ecospold2, ILCD, OpenLCA) into antelope entities. Each provider class may include custom implementations of the different interfaces.

implements the [quantity] interface for performing LCIA operations. It also creates an LciaResult object that provides sophisticated capabilities for reviewing and analyzing LCIA computations. The core package also implements the [exchange] interface, which is

The antelope_background package performs Tarjan Ordering of data sources

The antelope_foreground package provides the ability to construct dynamic, modular life cycle models that make reference to datasets from different origins.

Other implementations can be created independently as long as they inherit from the interface.