GoKawiilThe Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) defines a shared approach towards collecting and sharing repair data about small electricals and electronics. The goal of this standard is to make it easy to combine open data on electronics repair that has been collected by many different groups.
Following a common standard helps us to identify trends and patterns globally, and also within countries and regions, by combining data from local community repair events. For example, when we combine our data, we could identify the most recurrent failures and fixes of blenders brought to community repair events in the UK, across Europe and even globally.
The definition of the standard is an ongoing process, with version 0.3 the latest released version as of December 2021. If you would like to contribute to future discussions of ORDS, please get in touch with us.
Our data available for download is combined using ORDS.
ORDS v0.3
Read the full ORDS v0.3 document.
In version 0.1 we concentrated on standardising elements already captured by most members, prioritising areas where there was already convergence, while leaving out other areas where more work was needed.
Version 0.2 updated the standard based on insights learned from the first data aggregations. The main changes were
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