Toward an ontology‐driven blockchain design for supply‐chain provenance
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Summary An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods (e.g., tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods) has often not been possible with today's items that are produced and transported in complex, interorganizational, often internationally spanning supply chains. Recent adoptions of the Internet of Things and blockchain technologies give promise at better supply‐chain provenance. We are particularly interested in the blockchain, as many favored use cases of blockchain are for provenance tracking. We are also interested in applying ontologies, as there has been some work done on knowledge provenance, traceability, and food provenance using ontologies. In this paper, we make a case for why ontologies can contribute to blockchain design. To support this case, we analyze a traceability ontology and translate some of its representations to smart contracts that execute a provenance trace and enforce traceability constraints on the Ethereum blockchain platform.
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Three other contributions in the first cluster concern traceability in more general supply chain terms.
“Three other contributions concern the concept of traceability, but in more general terms refer to the supply chain [76,79,80].”
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Other works in macro-cluster C1 propose a proof of concept based on Ethereum [79], Matlab [81], and an experimental blockchain based on three nodes [76].
“Other works in macro-cluster C 1 propose a proof of concept based on Ethereum [79], Matlab [81], and an experimental blockchain based on three nodes [76].”
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Some documents in macro-clusters C1 and C2 present proofs of their concepts.
“Some of them propose new platforms just at a concept level [45,51,52,75,77,83,84,88,89,91], some of them present proofs of their concepts [76,79,81], and only three of them present a real implementation based on real blockchains: [78,80,82].”
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[79] has a proof of concept based on Ethereum.
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Background
- Authors
- Kim, H. M., & Laskowski, M.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Kim, Henry M.
- ORCID
- Kim, Henry M.
- Venue
- Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 18-27
- ISSN
- 1055-615X (ISSN-L)
- 1550-1949
- 2160-0074
- OpenAlex
- W3123722958
- Cited by
- 652
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 64 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 77 · 2022: 105 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 111 · 2019: 79 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 133.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Intelligent systems in accounting, finance and management/Intelligent systems in accounting, finance & management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Keywords
- blockchain design, ontology (information science), smart contracts, Ethereum, provenance tracking, Internet of Things, knowledge provenance, food origin
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