OpenMI

CEH played a leading role in the development of the international OpenMI Association, an independent, non-profitmaking organisation, first under the HarmonIT project and then OpenMI-LIFE project. Funded until January 2010 by the EU's LIFE programme, the Association's primary objectives were to develop, maintain and promote the OpenMI.

Open Modelling Interface 

The Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) provides a standard which facilitates the linking of simulation models of environmental and socio-economic processes.

A software development kit is provided to simplify the process of making models OpenMI compliant, linking and running them.

The driver for the OpenMI was the increasing need to understand how processes interact, thus enabling the wider impacts of policies and events to be predicted more accurately.

Project report

The OpenMI-Life project was concluded successfully on January 31st, 2010. It was deemed to be one of the nine "Best LIFE Environment Projects 2010". Please click here to see a publication which celebrates those achievements.

To read about the proceedings of the project's final workshop, please click here.

More information

For more information about the OpenMI Association and its activities, please visit www.OpenMI.org.