The 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.
Summary
- The standard focuses on repairs of small electrical and electronic products.
- It focuses on collecting information about 3 main areas: Product Related; Repair Related; and Session Related.
- For each primary module, it explains what they are and identifies the data we collect for them.
- For each field, the standard explains how to collect data in ways that make it easy to aggregate and compare.
- Data collected is shared with an open Creative Commons license.
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