Open Repair Data Standard

https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/

by cassepipe • 2 months ago

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cassepipe• 2 months ago

Wasn't sure what was best to post the actual spec lives there: https://standard.openrepair.org/standard.html

memco• 2 months ago

The product related info feels a bit anemic. Surprised things like "model" aren't in there.

FixStuff4• 2 months ago

It used to publish the `model` values but found that so few repair events collected `model` values and the scant values that did turn up were not very useful. The data is compiled and published on a shoestring budget, so resources are very limited.

The purpose of the data has evolved over years as a response to and a source for various investigations and campaigns that feed into the European Right To Repair campaign. It is also used by individual repair groups and networks to demonstrate their work and achievements - both environmental and social - in order to garner support and funding. The main use of the dataset is as an overview of a glimpse of community repair activity worldwide.

https://metabase.openrepair.org/dashboard/97-ora-data-overvi...

orangewindies• 2 months ago

They specifically mention that:

    Removal of model field due to problems with data collection and quality

kensai• 2 months ago

Is this abandoned? No major change since 2024 or so.

opengears• 2 months ago

what would you improve?

FixStuff4• 2 months ago

The standard doesn't change often but the data is published annually.

https://github.com/openrepair/data

Arodex2• 2 months ago

Is there already a website to explore the dataset? I am starting out repairing old film cameras and there is documentation and tutorials, but it is very spread out between forums/reddit, how-tos in Flickr albums and a few websites who managed to grab a copy of official maintenance manuals

fuzzfactor• 2 months ago

The more that changes are absent for loger periods of time, the better the documentation works as a standard.

That's why it's called a standard, and nothing less.

Otherwise it's always not quite ready for adoption.

1970-01-01• 2 months ago

Why?

The things everyone wants:

1. A service manual or other doc showing all the parts and their specs.

2. The full repair process, including how to do teardown and reassembly.

3. All the tools required to do the job correctly.

The data seems quite useless to both owner and repairman. You would have much better data by mining it from comments in YouTube repair videos.

FixStuff4• 2 months ago

The data is collected from and reports on the activities of community repair events - Repair Cafes. It does not comprise any sort of guide to repairing devices. That is in the domain of iFixit. This dataset provides data points that feed into the European Right To Repair campaign. https://metabase.openrepair.org/dashboard/97-ora-data-overvi...

Open Repair Data Standard

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