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 preliminary results aligning CEON with relevant ontologies in the domains of circular economy (CE) and materials.

CE related ontologies

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

Materials related ontologies

Source Ontology Target Ontology Alignment
CEON BUILDMAT (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)

General (Top) level ontologies

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