Harmonized set of semantic standards, ontologies, nomenclatures
Creators: name: Ciaccio, Gessica
name: De Sabbata, Piero
name: Fantin, Valentina
name: Scalbi, Simona
name: Massa, Gilda
name: Brutti, Arianna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Interoperability
standard
data model
ontologies
PEF
enivironmental impact

description: The deliverable D1.4 addresses two aspects of the TRICK project: the flows of the data among the actors of TRICK use cases and the preliminary phase (including operative guidelines) of the PEF studies.This activity resulted a bit more complex than foreseen, firstly because of the emerging complexity of the services and the need for deepening the services mechanisms. 

The second hampering aspect was the stage of partial development or completeness of the existing standards relevant for TRICK at the time of this work: UNECE UN/CEFACT final specifications for fashion supply chains are still to be published; draft PEFCR specifications for apparel and footwear cover only some of the products used in TRICK and are still incomplete; CEN CWA eBIZ is not covering sustainability aspects.

Thirdly the activities of alignment between the parallel tasks of WP1 were relevant and made more complex by the pandemic situation that reduced the possibility of physical meetings in general. These constraints affected especially the analysis of the FOOD pilot, since the food chain partners in the project are very few and the partner in charge for data flows identification is only one partner with several external actors to involve. 

This document in the first part (chapter 1) presents the methodology followed to collect the information and to interact with the most relevant partners for each service. In the following chapter 2 the data sharing models and interoperability state of art are addressed. In this chapter the analysis starts from the eBusiness Interoperability Stack of technologies and motivates the choice of working with the UNECE methodology for the “sustainable and transparent fashion value chains” and with the eBIZ supply chain representation and data formats for the semantic and data transactions. Finally, a focus is open on the potentiality of the data space paradigm in the framework of TRICK next activities.

Chapter 3 reports how the UNECE methodology to set up a Traceability system has been implemented in TRICK, starting from the identification of the ‘claims’ of the companies that TRICK platform will support.

The detailed analysis of the services implemented by TRICK is in chapter 4: starting from the ‘as-is’ photography of the scenario, the ‘to be’ picture of the TRICK one is provided, identifying both the flows of data and the most relevant documents and information for each service. This activity required a huge effort both for coordinating the action with the other tasks and for designing new flows of data that are not in place and are not easy to activate, for reasons that span from normative regulation tovalidation/certification rules.It is the case, for example, of the flows of data for PEF studies along the supply chain: the present validation rules do not fit well in a multi sided environment where different steps of the production are strongly split between different actors with their own exclusive know-how.The second objective of the document is tackled by chapter 5, with a preliminary definition of operative guidelines for the execution of the PEF studies of the categories of products of the TRICK textile pilots (since the food sector will not be subject to a PEF study in TRICK project). Part of the relevant effort for the production of this deliverable was spent in the creation of a common understanding between the participants, thanks to a very short crash course and further interactions; secondly the analysis of theexisting PEFCR specifications for apparel and footwear was performed although they are still under discussion and not finalised. The efforts required to decide how to overcome the gaps and this work will be the basis for the contribution of the project to the fora active for collecting comments and suggestions.

The chapters addressing the potential contribution to policies (chapter 7) and the conclusions (chapter 8) conclude this deliverable.

The quantity of documentation needed to represent the achievements and the specifications arising from this work has led to reduce the details and adopt as much as possible references to external documentations in order to do not lose the thread of the work. For this reason, for example, already existing specifications and standards are not reported extensively within this document. The final concrete outcome of the deliverable, useful for the next design and development steps (WP2, WP3 and WP4) of the projects are 1) the identification of the standardised resources (transactional standards, nomenclatures, ontologies) and their need for extensions/customisation, 2) the description of the expected flows of information for the six services and 3) the general settings for the PEF studies on the textile products of the pilots.