Modular Ontology Design Approach for an ESPR Compliant Digital Product Passport Core Ontology

Poster for the paper: Modular Ontology Design Approach for an ESPR Compliant Digital Product Passport Core Ontology

Presented at the: 17th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2026)

ABSTRACT:

In the nearest future, digital product passports (DPP) will be enforced on products put on the EU market. Similar initiatives are taking place in other parts of the world as well. Ontologies are seen as a solution to capture the knowledge of the complex DPP ecosystem domain to provide unambiguous interpretation and semantic interoperability. However, building such ontologies remains a challenge due to the domain complexity and involvement of various stakeholders. In this paper, we aim to solve this problem by providing an ontology design approach for developing the DPP core ontology, targeting cross-sectorial information needs. For this, we explore and combine different ontology engineering methods, to allow engineering of a modular core ontology for an ESPR compliant digital product passport. 

CITE AS:

@inproceedings{maigre:2026,
  author    = {Maigre, Riina and Robal, Tarmo and Haav, Hele-Mai},
  title     = {Modular Ontology Design Approach for an ESPR Compliant Digital Product Passport Core Ontology},
  booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of Baltic DB{\&}IS Conference Forum and Doctoral Consortium 2026 co-located with 17th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems (Baltic DB{\&}IS 2026)},
  series    = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  volume    = {4211},
  pages     = {115--126},
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Tartu, Estonia},
  issn      = {1613-0073},
  url       = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4211/paper11.pdf},
}

Conference paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4211/paper11.pdf