Digital Product Passport Information Ontology
type: Ontology
version IRI: http://w3id.org/dppo/ontology/dpp-info/0.1/
imports: dpp-odp
contributor: Eva Blomqvist
contributor: Huanyu Li
contributor: Robin Keskisärkkä
created: 2023-10-30
creator: Maike Jansen
description: This is a minimal core ontology describing DPP information types.
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
preferred namespace prefix: dpp-info
version info: 0.1

certificate document
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: external document
domain: CertificateInformation
comment: A relation pointing out a document representing a certificate related to the product described by the DPP.

characteristic
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Product characteristic
comment: The characteristic that the piece of information is about.

contains information
type: ObjectProperty
domain: DPP
range: DPP information
comment: Relating a DPP to the pieces of information it contains.

directly superseded by
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: superseded by
inverse of: directly supersedes
comment: A relation connecting a piece of information to the piece of information directly superseding it.

directly supersedes
type: ObjectProperty
comment: A relation connecting a piece of information to another piece of information that directly replaces the first one, i.e. when a DPP is updated.

disassembly instructions document
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: external document
domain: Disassembly information
comment: A relation pointing out a document with disassembly instructions for the product.

external document
type: ObjectProperty
comment: A relation for pointing to external documentation, that is not explicitly represented inside the DPP but instead as a related document, e.g. documents with various kinds of instructions, certificates, or furhter information about the product.

has composition information
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Product
comment: A piece of information about the composition of a product.

is about
type: ObjectProperty
comment: Relating a piece of information to the thing the information is about, i.e. describes.

quality
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Product quality
comment: A relation pointing at the quality that the piece of information describes.

repair instrucitons document
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: external document
domain: Repair instruction
comment: A relation pointing out a document containing repair instructions for the product.

superseded by
type: ObjectProperty
type: TransitiveProperty
domain: DPP information
range: DPP information
comment: A transitive relation that relates a piece of information to the pieces of information that supersedes it.

unit
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Class
  union of: Composition information
  union of: Product characteristic
  union of: Product quality
comment: Relation between a concept with a value, associating it to a unit of measure.

end time
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The end of a time interval.

start time
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The start of a time interval.

value
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The value of a characterisitc or a quality.

CertificateInformation
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
comment: A piece of information about some certificate that concerns the product.
comment: Certificate information

Composition information
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
comment: A piece of information about the composition of a product, i.e. a relation between a product and its part, potentially with more details of the composition included.

DPP information
type: Class
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: is about
  some values from: Thing
comment: A pice of information contained in a DPP, which is about some product.

Disassembly information
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
comment: A piece of information about how to disassemble the product, e.g. linking to some disassembly instructions.

Legal guarantee
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
subclass of: Class
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: end time
    cardinality: 1
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: start time
    cardinality: 1
comment: A piece of information that described the legal guarantee of the product, with its time interval of validity.

Product characteristic
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
subclass of: Class
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: characteristic
    some values from: Thing
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: value
    some values from: Literal
comment: A piece of information that describes a product characteristic.

Product quality
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
subclass of: Class
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: quality
    some values from: Thing
  intersection of: Restriction
    on property: value
    some values from: Literal
comment: A piece of information about the quality of of a product.

Repair instruction
type: Class
subclass of: DPP information
comment: A piece of information about how to repair a product.

Unit
type: Class
comment: A unit of measure.