We’re all set for a great weekend and London’s largest ever sustainability hack event – The London Green Hackathon!

Over 120 participants

10 Fantastic Sponsors

Over 20 participating organizations

And Great prizes!

This will be the cleanweb London event of the year! Beyond the fun and learning our sponsors are also making it well worth your while by providing cash prizes!

• Best Hack – £500
• Innovation – £200
• Built Environment – £200
• Transparency – £200
• Behavior Change – £200
• Transport – £200
• Visualisation – £200
• PeopleFundIt – Free listing on crowdfunding site PeopleFundIt

If you haven’t grabbed you ticket yet get them while they last – only 29 left! We also have just released an additional 50 tickets for the presentation session only starting at 2:30 PM Sunday.

Make sure to visit the Hackathon website for more details and get ready for and exciting weekend of hacking for climate change, sustainability, energy and resources.

In the previous post I outlined how standards publish at present and how AMEE represents them. In this post I’ll concentrate more on how AMEE can be used and how we approach updating AMEE.

How can I access standards in AMEE?

AMEEconnect allows software to interact with the AMEE platform over the web using a secure connection. This can be used to extract data or text, store all kinds of information and retrieve calculation results, including time series data. This information can then be presented to the user on a variety of clients, from phones to tablets, from desktop applications to web pages.

AMEEapps also provides a number of web applications than you can use or customize and also open source tools to speed up development of software with AMEE.

AMEEdiscover provides a human readable interface for AMEEconnect, allowing any user to search, browse and even perform calculations with AMEE’s content. It also serves as a good source of documentation for all the world’s standards that AMEE represents, even if you have no need of AMEEconnect itself.

Behind the scenes, AMEEdiscover uses AMEEconnect, so all content that you can see including all text documentation, is available for extraction via the AMEE API.

How does AMEE decide what standards to include?

Ultimately, AMEE’s goal is to include all relevant standards, but this of course takes time, particularly to ensure quality. We choose to bring a standard into AMEE if one or more of the following is true:

• there is a clear demand from multiple AMEE users that it’s needed
• we feel the information is likely to be useful once AMEE gives it greater exposure
• the information will add unique value when combined with other standards AMEE holds
• a single user sees significant value in it

AMEE’s platform, through AMEEconnect and AMEEdiscover products, offers online services that help make environmental information and data more accessible. Many standards come from governments or NGOs and are available freely and no license is required for them. Because AMEE’s business model is centred on providing online services around data and not selling the data itself, we can readily accomodate proprietary data sets which require the purchase of a specific license, such as the vast ecoinvent database used for Life Cycle Analysis (LCA).

AMEE’s remit extends beyond greenhouse gas emissions data and closely related energy efficiency data. With the inclusion of ecoinvent and other datasets, AMEE covers all kinds of environmental information, including land use, air pollution, land and water contamination amongst many others.