Openpeer-reviewedversioned
Stable, citable identifiers for failure modes, assets, and standards — in a form that stays stable across hosting, versioning, and organisational change.
The AO Foundation solved an analogous problem in orthopedic trauma. The diffuse mass of complex surgical cases became a structured, citable, community-maintained reference every surgeon, institution, and medical-device vendor could build on. The surgery moved forward together because the substrate was published.
Rail asset reliability has never had an AO Foundation equivalent. The Open Rail Corpus is the first step toward one. It does not claim to be complete, ratified, or certified — it claims to be real, traceable, and licensed under CC BY 4.0 for free use and adaptation.
Open by default. Community-reviewed. Versioned deliberately, so references made today still resolve ten years from now. Canonical identifiers live at kerne.systems; this host (openrxm.org) is the active resolver.