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Notes from the OpenEPCIS team on GS1 standards, DPP, EPCIS and the agent-facing web.

Your ERP Already Knows: OpenEPCIS for Odoo
Seven open-source addons publish Odoo's products, contacts, lots and serial numbers to a GS1 Digital Link and report what happens to them as EPCIS 2.0 events. Nobody types a passport field twice, and the warehouse never waits for a repository.
· Sven Böckelmann#odoo#erp#connectors#epcis#digital-link#dpp#gs1#open-source
Prove It: DPP Conformance Testing Is Live on the EU Test Bed
The European Commission now hosts a public validator for OpenEPCIS DPP-Ready passports. Free, no account, no vendor in the middle, and we would like to hear where the shapes get it wrong.
· Sven Böckelmann#dpp#conformance#shacl#testing#espr#gs1#ontology#itb
Fascinating in Theory. It Just Doesn't Work in Practice.
Why blockchain is the wrong answer to traceability, and why it refuses to die anyway.
· Sven Böckelmann#blockchain#traceability#dpp#epcis#verifiable-credentials#gs1#supply-chain#iot
The Web-based DPP doesn't need new infrastructure
Three GS1 standards — Digital Link, Web Vocabulary, Conformant Resolver — plus EPCIS 2.0 already cover the agent-facing layer of the Digital Product Passport.
· Sven Böckelmann#dpp#gs1#epcis#digital-link#agentic-ai#linked-data#ontology#jsonld