Digital Product Passport for Circular Economy: A Review of Semantic Web Vocabularies and Requirements for Interoperability

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Semantic Web vocabularies (RDF/OWL) can enable interoperability across supply chains, yet the landscape of ontologies covering DPP, after-sales service, and warranty remains scattered and not systematically compared. This review presents a systematic survey of such vocabularies: we define a reproducible methodology (Linked Open Vocabularies, literature, standards), inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a multi-dimensional comparison grid. We analyse coverage of product lifecycle, DPP/ESPR alignment, warranty and return workflows, and adoption. Our findings indicate that product identification and lifecycle stages are well covered by several ontologies, whereas machine-readable warranty payment rules and standardised return/workflow models are largely absent. We discuss implications for DPP deployment in the circular economy and recommendations for standardisation. JEL codes: O33 (Technological Change; R&D); Q55 (Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation); L86 (Information and Internet Services) Environmental Economics Digital Product Passport Circular economy Semantic Web Interoperability Warranty RDF/OWL Full Text Additional Declarations The authors declare no competing interests. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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