External & Upstream Vocabularies

The extensions don't invent terms in isolation — they anchor to a layered stack of foundational, community, and sectoral vocabularies. This page lists the vocabularies referenced across the project; open any one to see exactly which OpenEPCIS terms map to it and how.

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Layer 1 — Foundational vocabularies

The peer triumvirate the extensions build on: GS1 first, then the EU SEMICeu Core Vocabularies, then schema.org as a universal-web fallback.

GS1423 terms

GS1 Web Vocabulary

Imported foundation — supply-chain identifiers (GTIN, GLN) and most product attributes.

https://ref.gs1.org/voc/

SEMICeu44 terms

EU SEMICeu Core Vocabularies

EU public-sector canonical vocabularies — conformity, legal entities, addresses, identifier schemes (CCCEV, CPOV, Core Location, ADMS).

http://data.europa.eu/m8g/

Schema.org247 terms

Schema.org

Universal web fallback — ratings, observations and generic metadata.

https://schema.org/

Layer 2 — Community DPP profiles

Upstream Digital Product Passport profiles our terms anchor to via graded SKOS mappings.

UNTP64 terms

UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP)

UN/CEFACT product-transparency protocol — DPP-specific conformity and traceability detail.

https://vocabulary.uncefact.org/untp/

DPP Keystone245 terms

DPP Keystone

Peer DPP profile (v2) — iron & steel, EPD, textile and construction terms.

https://dpp-keystone.org/spec/v2/terms#

CIRPASS-2339 terms

CIRPASS-2 pilot programme

EU DPP pilot — requirements feeding CEN/CENELEC JTC 24. The EUDPP Core Ontology (v2.0.5) is mirrored as the browsable upstream module extensions/upstream/cirpass2-eudpp.

https://w3id.org/eudpp#

Sectoral (Layer 1 peer)

Domain-specific upstream vocabularies mirrored as cross-sector peers.

GS1 Rail24 terms

GS1 Rail Vocabulary

GS1 AISBL / GS1 Switzerland railway vocabulary — sensor metadata and EPCIS Registry shapes.

https://gs1-epcis-reg.org/rail/voc/data#

Conformance bridges

Mapping / conformance targets rather than property-by-property term sources — described here for traceability.

JTC 24 conformance bridge

CEN/CENELEC JTC 24

EN 18216–18223 (+ prEN 18239/18246) — harmonised DPP standards; clause-by-clause conformance mapping.

BatteryPass SAMM218 terms

BatteryPass Consortium (SAMM)

BatteryPass Consortium SAMM aspect models (v1.2.0; Performance 1.2.1) — the semantic battery DPP data model our terms align to.

urn:samm:io.BatteryPass

BatteryPass-Ready7 terms

GEFEG BatteryPass-Ready

GEFEG BatteryPass-Ready v1.3 longlist-only attributes (DPP-information group + lossless-carrier keys) — the few attributes with no SAMM equivalent. GEFEG is the Battery Pass Consortium's publication and validation channel; the full model is the Consortium SAMM vocabulary.

https://ref.openepcis.io/vocab/batterypass-ready/1.3#

EC BP Guidance86 terms

EC Battery Passport guidance (data points)

European Commission guidance 'Digital Batteries Passport — data points by category' (v1.0, July 2026, Ares(2026)7579758) — the official 71-data-point list with per-category applicability as of February 2027 (OpenEPCIS-hosted RDF reference; the Commission publishes no IRIs).

https://ref.openepcis.io/vocab/ec-battery-passport-guidance/1.0#