OpenExerciseBase
An open, evolving infrastructure for structured exercise knowledge.
OpenExerciseBase supports the contribution, revision, professional validation, and reuse of machine-readable exercise knowledge across research, rehabilitation, digital health, and other applications.
A collaborative, structured, and extendable exercise repository for everyone!
What is OpenExerciseBase?
OpenExerciseBase is an open and extensible knowledge infrastructure for individual physical exercises. It represents exercises in a consistent, machine-readable format and provides mechanisms for their continued contribution, revision, versioning, professional review, and reuse. Rather than treating exercise data as a fixed collection, OpenExerciseBase is designed as an evolving resource that can grow and change over time while preserving provenance and validation status.
Learn moreStructured and machine-readable
Exercises are represented using a consistent JSON-based structure that supports computational access, exchange, and reuse.
Open and extensible
The data model can evolve as new exercise characteristics, relationships, and representation requirements emerge.
Versioned and traceable
Changes are maintained through version control, preserving the history and provenance of exercise entries.
Community contribution with professional validation
New exercises and improvements can be contributed openly, while professional review remains a separate process and is explicitly reflected in the validation status of each entry.
Validation and governance
To balance openness with data quality, OpenExerciseBase maintains two clearly separated tracks.
Community exercises
Exercises contributed by the community that follow the shared structure but have not yet undergone professional validation. These entries remain openly visible and versioned.
Validated exercises
Exercises that have undergone professional review and have been approved according to the OpenExerciseBase review process. Their validated status is recorded explicitly and remains distinct from their provenance or method of creation.
Both tracks are publicly accessible and maintained with full transparency.
How contributions work
Submit an exercise
Contributors propose a new exercise or improvement using a shared structured format.
Community collection
The exercise is added to the community collection and becomes openly visible.
Professional review
Selected entries are reviewed by professionals for accuracy, safety, and clarity.
Validated promotion
Approved exercises are promoted to the validated collection.