Building Digital Product Passports: EPCIS 2.0 Meets Knowledge Graphs
Abstract
The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation mandates robust product traceability to support sustainability reporting and regulatory compliance. However, the inherent complexity of global supply chains, marked by frequent changes in product ownership, transformations, and aggregations, poses significant challenges. While GS1 EPCIS 2.0 offers a standardized framework for capturing and sharing product visibility data, querying traceability information becomes inefficient and cumbersome, particularly in scenarios involving multilevel transformations and aggregations. This paper proposes an integrated architecture that combines EPCIS 2.0 with a knowledge graph to address these challenges. By linking traceability events using GS1 keys, the system constructs a graph-based model that enables the retrieval of complete product histories with a single query, regardless of the complexity of the supply chain. The platform ingests visibility events in real time from distributed sources, enhancing scalability, interoperability, and traceability accuracy.
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- Authors
- Tolcha, Y. K., Park, G., & Kim, D.
- Affiliations
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- Venue
- 2025 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2025-04-22
- Pages
- 1-6
- ISSN
- 2374-0221 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4410809972
- Semantic Scholar
- c1119396c5e1d71a3275713b15d1ff7e9d2e4973
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 27.57
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE International Conference on RFID (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (RS-202500573160)
- Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Keywords
- digital product passport, knowledge graphs, product traceability, supply chain visibility, sustainability reporting, regulatory compliance, real-time data ingestion, interoperability
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