Dictagon
Dictagon provides a data dictionary layer that transforms construction product declarations—DoPs, EPDs, datasheets, and spreadsheets—into machine-readable, standardized data referenced by URIs from its PDTs.pt platform. The company builds directly to the published EU Digital Product Passport standards family (EN 18216 through EN 18246), including a live read API for EN 18222 that lets systems fetch passports by identifier with attached documents and authenticity blocks.
- Construction Technology
- Software Only
Funding
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Product
Problem
Construction product data exists across heterogeneous document formats—DoPs, EPDs, datasheets, spreadsheets, ERP/PIM systems, and BIM objects—but none of these formats allow another system to read property values without human mediation. A property like "reaction to fire" is expressed differently across languages and systems, and without standardized machine-readable references, data cannot be exchanged or compared automatically, blocking interoperability required for digital product passports.
Solution
Dictagon provides a data dictionary layer that transforms construction product declarations into machine-readable, standardized data. The company assesses existing documents, structures free text into typed values (numbers, units, enumerations, classes), and references each value with a URI from its PDTs.pt dictionary, which implements ISO 23386 and ISO 23387. This approach ensures that identical properties expressed differently across systems resolve to a single, unambiguous definition. Dictagon's foundation enables digital product passports and aligns with the EU's published DPP standards family (EN 18216, EN 18219, EN 18220, EN 18221, EN 18222, EN 18223, EN 18239, EN 18246), including the common information model required by EN 18223. The company reads standards directly from CEN working groups and collaborates with EPD specialists for environmental data.
Target Audience
Manufacturers of construction products (geotechnical products, materials, precast elements, ceramics) that must create interoperable digital product passports and EPD declarations; also standards bodies and software platforms working with product data templates.
Features
- PDTs.pt: a live, open, standards-compliant product data template platform implementing ISO 23386/ISO 23387, with an open API used by industry
- Data dictionary references, where each property resolves to a URI from pdts.pt that specifies a single definition, data type, and unit
- Conversion of free-text declarations into typed values (numbers, units, enumerations, classes) that systems can act on
- Building to published EU DPP standards: EN 18216:2026 (data exchange protocols), EN 18219:2026 (unique identifiers), EN 18220:2026 (data carriers), EN 18221:2026 (data storage/archiving), EN 18222:2026 (APIs), EN 18223:2026 (system interoperability), EN 18239:2026 (access rights), EN 18246:2026 (data authentication/integrity)
- Read API for EN 18222 live with an OpenAPI description generated directly from endpoints; supports fetching passports by identifier, data element collections, attached documents, and authenticity blocks