Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance
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- The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) is a shared approach for collecting and sharing repair data on small electricals and electronics to facilitate combining open data from various groups globally.
- ORDS version 0.3 is the latest as of December 2021, with the standard evolving through updates like version 0.2 that added fields such as repair_status options and repair_barrier, while removing the model field due to quality issues.
- The standard focuses on three main areas: Product Related (e.g., category, brand, year), Repair Related (e.g., problem, status, barrier), and Session Related (e.g., ID, group, date), with data compiled and published every six months under open licenses.
- The Open Repair Alliance maintains and publishes datasets in ORDS format on its website, enabling trend analysis across regions, such as identifying common failures in devices like blenders in the UK, Europe, and globally.
- Future discussions for ORDS may include defining fault types for problem fields and exploring UNU-keys for product categorization, with contributions invited from interested parties.