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Semantic Data Integration for Digital Product Passports

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents an approach to facilitating semantic interoperability in Digital Product Passports (DPPs) through the use of Semantic Integration Patterns (SIPs). In the context of Industrie 4.0 and the transition to a Circular Economy, DPPs serve as digital representations of physical products, enabling traceability, compliance, and lifecycle data sharing across diverse and decentralized supply networks. The proposed SIP framework provides reusable communication patterns for structured data exchange between heterogeneous systems, ensuring syntactic and semantic consistency. Leveraging standards such as the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) and various domain-specific ontologies, the paper details how SIPs abstract application functionality and minimize integration complexity. A real-world use case in ski equipment lifecycle monitoring illustrates the practical implementation of SIPs, showing how maintenance data can be securely and semantically shared using predefined templates and data dictionaries. The approach supports machine-readable, scalable, and policy-compliant data exchange in DPP ecosystems.

Source: Procedia Computer Science

DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2026.02.353

Authors: Dietmar Glachs, Jonas Wohnig, Felix Strohmeier

Institution: Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Austria)

Language: English

Topic: Semantic Web and Ontologies

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft