Circular Economy Ontology Network (CEON)

The Circular Economy Ontology Network (CEON) provides a shared vocabulary for representing information about circular economies in the form of a network of ontology modules.

The figure below shows an overview of the topics covered. The lines between the boxes represent some common-sense relations between the topics, which are represented as formal relations within the actual modules, such as owl:imports or specific object properties connecting concepts inside the modules.

Core Modules

The set of core modules that are in this release of CEON forms a set of generic reusable ontology building blocks and include Actor, Process, Resource, and Circular Value Network.

Actor

Ontology	Version	Docs
actor (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.4	html, pdf
actorODP (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.4	html, pdf

Process

Ontology	Version	Docs
plan (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.1	html, pdf
process (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.5	html, pdf
processODP (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.5	html, pdf

Resource

Ontology	Version	Docs
energy (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf
material (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.4	html, pdf
product (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.5	html, pdf
resourceODP (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.5	html, pdf

CVN

Ontology	Version	Docs
cvn (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.3	html, pdf
value (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.3	html, pdf

Supplementary

The following modules are supplemental to the core modules as shown in Figure 1.

Ontology	Version	Docs
datasheet (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.3	html, pdf
location (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf
quantity (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf
statement (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf

Use Case Ontologies

The use case ontologies reuse the core modules of CEON and focus on representing use case data about products' lifecycle operations.

Ontology	Version	Docs
construction (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf
electronics (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf
textile (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf

Other Reused Ontologies

The following ontologies are not included directly in CEON, but are reused or referenced. For instance, the Building Topology Ontology (BOT) is used in the construction use case, and the QUDT ontology is referred to in the Quantity module.

Ontology	Version	Docs
bot (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.3.2	html, pdf
qudt (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	2.1	html, pdf
qudtunit (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	2.1	html, pdf

Full Imported Version

The following ontology file is the complete version of CEON, including both core and supplementary modules.

Ontology	Version	Docs
full (ttl, rdf, json-ld)	0.2	html, pdf

Alignment Module

The alignment module contains results aligning CEON with relevant ontologies in the domains of circular economy (CE), sustainability, materials, manufacturing, product, logistics, and with two general ontologies.

CE related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	BCAO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	BiOnto	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	CAMO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	CEO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	DPPO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

Sustainability related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	BiOnto	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	BonsaiCore	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	ENVO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SAREF4ENVI	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SAREF4ENVR	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SDGIO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

Materials related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	BUILDMAT	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	BWMDDomain	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	DEB	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	IOFcore	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MAMBO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MATONTO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MDO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MECH	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MPO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MSEO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MTO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MWO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	PMDco	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

Manufacturing related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	BWMDDomain	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	Composition	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	GPO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	GRACE	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	IOFCore	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MSDL	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MSOOFM	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	ManuService	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	PSS	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SAREF4INMA	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

Product related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	BPO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	BonsaiCore	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	GRACE	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	ManuService	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	PSS	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	UNSPSC	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

Logistics related ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	Composition	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	GPO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	IMAMO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	MSOOFM	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	ManuService	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	ROMAIN	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SCOPRO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	SCOR	(rdf, ttl, tsv)

General (Top) level ontologies

Source Ontology	Target Ontology	Alignment
CEON	EMMO	(rdf, ttl, tsv)
CEON	EPCIS	(rdf, ttl, tsv)