Hysen LabsODYM
Open Dynamic Material Systems Model
ODYM, a library for dynamic material flow analysis
ODYM, the Open Dynamic Material Systems Model, is a software library for dynamic material flow analysis, described as a framework for modeling biophysical stock-flow relations.
What ODYM is
ODYM stands for Open Dynamic Material Systems Model, and the README calls it a software library for dynamic material flow analysis, or MFA. The fuller description is a framework for modeling biophysical stock-flow relations in socioeconomic metabolism. That places it in industrial ecology, modeling how materials move through economies over time, and the name itself spells out the scope: open, dynamic, and built around material systems. The framework description shows up in both the name and the README's own wording.
Installing it
Installation is brief: download the repository, navigate to the main directory with your environment of choice activated, and run the install command. The environment activation step is left to your own Python setup, and the README does not specify which environment tool to use. That one command is the only installation step the README documents, so getting the library ready is a short process. Nothing about it is elaborate, which suits a Python library install. Download, activate an environment, run the install command, and the library is ready to use.
The scope of the README
The README covers the framework description and installation, and stops there. There is no API walkthrough and no worked model example. The repository is presented as a library release, and the documentation stays minimal, so what the project does is captured in those two short descriptions. The framework line and the installation line are the complete picture the README offers, and everything else is left to the code itself.
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