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A document that contains all the changes made to the standard.

2.1.3 August 15, 2024

Documents

  • Updated homepage to answer some of the frequency questions asked about Open 3P.
  • Updated descriptions for Material Purpose controlled list.
  • Updated description for Recycled Content Evidence Type controlled list.

2.1.2 August 09, 2024

Documents

  • Updated licence

2.1.1 August 07, 2024

Documents

  • Added Open 3P logo
  • Added author into meta data
  • Updated site name
  • Updated repository name and url

July 11, 2024

Documents

  • Added cork-cork explanation to data flow
  • Added milk bottle example to data flow

May 08, 2024

Data fields

  • Changed recyclability source in recyclability claims to mandatory
  • Changed complete packaging end Of life route in complete packaging end of life routes to mandatory
  • Changed recycled content evidence type in recycled content evidence type to mandatory
  • Changed component disruptors in component end of life routes to optional
  • Changed materialCombinationIdentifier to componentCombinationIdentifier in Component Constituents

Documents

  • Changed wording for weight tolerance in components
  • Changed multipack constitutents introduction text
  • Changed load identifiers to from catalogue to constituents in description
  • Changed load combination identifier description in load consitutents
  • Removed load_constituents joins in the erds for base materials and materials

April 30, 2024

Model

  • Moved identicalQuantity from Multipacks to Multipack Constituents

Data fields

  • Changed following fields within load from mandatory to optional
    • startDate
    • endDate
    • destinationAddressStreet
    • destinationAddressCountry
    • destinationPostalCode
    • timesSent
  • Changed description on baseMaterial type

Documents

  • Updated homepage up more cards and relevant icons
  • Removed excel workbook download
  • Removed data templates:
    • Base Materials
    • Materials
    • Components
    • Complete Packaging
    • Multipacks
    • Loads
    • Material Constituents
    • Component Constituents
    • Complete Packaging Constituents
    • Multipack Constituents
  • Added data flow examples:
    • Loads
    • Material Constituents
    • Component Constituents
    • Complete Packaging Constituents
    • Multipack Constituents
    • Load Constituent
  • Added XML examples:
    • Base Materials
    • Materials
    • Components
    • Complete Packaging
    • Multipacks
    • Loads
    • Material Constituents
    • Component Constituents
    • Complete Packaging Constituents
    • Multipack Constituents
    • Load Constituent
  • Improved ERDs
  • Moved glossary from start here to it’s own folder
  • Removed entries from glossary that did not directly link to Open 3P.
  • Tweaked description for weight
    • Components
    • Complete Packaging

January 31, 2024

Documents

  • Updated JSON examples to match data flow page. This includes:
    • Base materials
    • Materials
    • Components
    • Complete Packages
    • Multipacks
  • Added data flow charts to help with visualising the flow of the different schema through the standard. This includes:
    • Base materials
    • Materials
    • Components
    • Complete Packages
    • Multipacks

January 29, 2024

Documents

  • Changed the wording from required to mandatory. Changed the wording recommended to optional. Added asterisk to diagram to signify mandatory. This includes:
    • Complete Packaging
    • Multipack
    • Load
    • Material Constituents
    • Component Constituents
    • Complete Packaging Constituents
    • Multipack Constituents
    • Certificate Claims
    • Recyclability Claims
    • Component End of Life Routes
    • Complete Packaging End of Life Routes
    • Recycled Content Claims
    • Organisation
    • Load Constituents

January 26, 2024

Documents

  • Base Materials, changed required to mandatory. Changed recommended to optional. Added asterisk to diagram
  • Materials, changed required to mandatory. Changed recommended to optional. Added asterisk to diagram
  • Components, changed required to mandatory. Changed recommended to optional. Added asterisk to diagram
  • Tweaked the README to be more relative for users accessing the GitHub repo
  • Create Core Schema definition page and added to the side bar

Data Fields

  • recycledContentClaims changed from mandatory to optional

January 5, 2024

Documents

  • Fixed typo in sidebar to Governance
  • Added FAQ to base materials page
  • Remove definitions from Key Concepts
  • Create Glossary page
  • Improved Data Flow page

Data fields

  • Renamed baseMaterialName to name
  • Renamed baseMaterialType to type
  • Renamed materialName to name

November 30, 2023

Documents

  • Changed ALL date related fields to ISO 8601 standard, changed the format to Date
  • Updated ALL JSON dates to read as yyyy-mm-dd
  • Changed appropriate identifier fields to UUID from string
  • Changed Boolean values in JSON examples to true and false rather than "TRUE" and "FALSE"
  • Change manufactedCountry format to string, and improved description to indicate that the numeric value should be used from ISO 3166
  • Changed Numeric format to either Decimal or Integer
    • Materials
      • areaDensity -> Decimal
      • areaDensityTolerance -> Decimal
    • Components
      • height -> Decimal
      • width -> Decimal
      • depth -> Decimal
      • volume -> Decimal
      • weight -> Decimal
      • weightTolerance -> Decimal
      • recycledContent -> Decimal
    • Complete Packaging
      • height -> Decimal
      • width -> Decimal
      • depth -> Decimal
      • volume -> Decimal
      • weight -> Decimal
      • weightTolerance -> Decimal
      • servingCapacity -> Integer
    • Multipacks
      • identicalQuantity -> Integer
    • Loads
      • timesSent -> Integer
    • Material Constituents
      • virginMaterial -> Decimal
      • layer -> Integer
      • materialPercentage -> Decimal
    • Component End of Life Routes
      • orderOfPrecedence -> Integer
    • Complete Packaging End of Life Routes
      • orderOfPrecedence -> Integer
    • Load Constituent
      • quantityInLoad -> Integer

November 23, 2023

Documents

  • Reworked data diagrams to show the constituents lists as the edges between the tables
  • Updated data diagrams to remove obsolete Load_Catalogue

November 17, 2023

Data fields

  • Added areaDensity, areaDensityUnit, areaDensityTolerance, areaDensityToleranceType, areaDensityDate to Materials core schema

October 12, 2023

Model

  • Added Organisations relationships list
  • Removed Load Catalogue
  • Added Load Consitutuents relationship list

Data fields

  • Added manufacturers to all core schemas
  • Added manufacturing country to complete packaging, multipack and load
  • Removed componentContactWithProduct from Complete Packaging
  • Added contactWithProduct to Complete Packaging Constituents

Documents

  • Updated homepage for v2.1

September 29, 2023

Documents

  • Reworked data formats page to include various worked examples

September 22, 2023

Documents

  • Added blank Excel workbook to supporting files page
  • Added blank csvs for all core schema and all relationship lists to supporting files page and each schema page

September 7, 2023

Documents

  • Added example for Recycled Content Claims
  • Added example for Recyclability Claims
  • Added example for Certification Claims
  • Added example for Components
  • Added example for Complete Packaging End of Life
  • Added example for Complete Packaging

August 11, 2023

Documents

  • Added licence page so that users don’t need to navigate to Github
  • Improved homepage text regarding licencing
  • Improved sidebar navigation
  • Added licence to the footer
  • Added Relationship list, UUID and Single Source of Truth to Key Concepts page
  • Improved reability of Start Here Introduction
  • Fixed comestics typo to cosmetics in products types
  • Added product type descriptions
  • Various other typos

Data Fields

  • Harmonised all boolean field descriptions so that they all stated “Answer as: ‘TRUE’ for yes and ‘FALSE’ for no.”

July 14, 2023

Documents

  • Removed catalogue from the introduction area
  • Improved working about packaging levels
  • Reworked introduction
  • Improved key concepts page
  • Updated data flow
  • Improved Complete Packaging End of Life Route Relationship List
  • Added Controlled List information page
  • Improved the Goverance Page
  • Improved the branding to fit with the Open 3P brand guidelines

July 5, 2023

Documents

  • Removed banner detailing that the standard is about plastic packaging.
  • Added Apache Licence to homepage

July 4, 2023

Documents, Model, Data Fields

March 17, 2023

Documents

  • General improvements

March 10, 2023

Documents

  • Added versioning control so that there can be parrellell versions
  • Updated Identifiers page to include information regarding UUID

March 9, 2023

Documents

  • Variours changes to files for added function for versioning

February 7, 2023

Model

  • Changed component catologue to components

Documents

  • Added additional examples
  • Updated all data schema to based on changes

Data Fields

  • Changed tags to external identifiers

February 3, 2023

Model

  • Changed materials catologue to base materials
  • Added country to base materials

Documents

  • Added examples to base materials

January 20, 2023

Documents

  • Added schema images to all Data Specification pages
  • Added JSON example to all Data Specification pages
  • Added CSV examples
  • Added CSV templates

Data Fields

  • Fixed Complete Packaging Recycling Disruptor List

January 06, 2023

Documents

  • Neaten up tables so that the status column doesn’t go over multiple lines.
  • Updated schema image.
  • Fixed naming for material and material catalogue pages.
  • Added favicon.

December 20, 2022

Model

  • separate out materials and material catalogue -> move to the front of the process

Data Fields

  • Component Catalogue: add identifier to link materials

November 25, 2022

Documentation

  • Add definitions of recycling and reuse
  • Bug fixes, typos and tweaks throughout

Data Fields

  • Component Catalogue: branding added due to updated epr
  • Component Catalogue: loaned added due to epr
  • Multipack: outsideTier removed because encoded with tier level

Controlled Lists

  • add none option to drs

November 18, 2022

Documents

  • Complete Packaging: reformat component catalogue references by replacing independentComponent, previouslyAssembledComponent and allComponent with
  • Component Catalogue: created previouslyAssembledComponent as boolean and componentLink for addressing which components are attached when created.
  • Upload Schema

November 11, 2022

Documents

  • Component Catalogue: Update measurement guidelines.
  • Complete Packaging: Update measurement guidelines.

October 21, 2022

Documents

  • Complete Packaging: householdWaste turned into required field - representing the updated EPR

Controlled Lists

  • Completed Definitions for shapes
  • Completed Definitions for opacity
  • Completed Definitions for level
  • Removed tertiary and replaced with ‘shipment’ and ‘transit’ to reflect updated EPR for level

September 30, 2022

Documents

  • Fix typo in Key Concepts, Multipack
  • For measurements: Add rounding rule.
  • Change volume measurement to millilitres
  • For measurements: clarify why component measurements are slightly different to GS1’s complete packaging measurement guidance.

Data Fields

  • Complete Packaging: Added weightTolerance to the complete packaging

September 26, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Controlled list material function -> material purpose

Data Fields

  • Component Catalgoue: Moved level from component catalogue to load catalogue
  • Component Catalgoue: Removed importedUK since manufacturedCountry codes the same information
  • Component Catalogue: recycledContent description updated - Recycled Content as the minimum allowable recycled content
  • Component Catalogue: Added weightTolerance - definition to be updated.
  • Component Catalogue Materials: virginMaterial description updated - virigin material as the maximum allowable created for the component
  • Load: add the field loadIdentifier to link to the load catalogue

September 9, 2022

Data Fields

  • required fields updated
  • All:uploaded changed to update
  • All: update added
  • All: discontinued changed to discontinue
  • Component Catalogue Materials: added materialName
  • Component Catalgoue: added partOfMultipack
  • Multipack: packagingItems replaced completePackaging and component

Structural/Model Changes

  • Added downloadable csv files to Supporting Files

September 5, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Data Flow created
  • Introduction changed to Start Here; Key Concepts moved into Start Here and files updated to reflect these changes

Data Fields

  • required fields updated (still in process)

September 2, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

  • Removal of Unique Components (fields moved to Component Catalogue or Complete Packaging)
  • Addition of Load Catalogue: load split into load and load catalogue

Data Fields

  • Component Catalgoue: format split into shape and function
  • Component Catalogue: Addition of level, reuseSystem, importedUK, and manufacturedCountry from unique components
  • Component Catalogue Materials: materialFunction turned into materialPurpose
  • Complete Packaging: Addition of componentContactWithProduct coverted from directContactWithProduct from unique components
  • All: tags converted into a dictionary; height, weight, depth, volume, and weight converted into numeric