Databases in veterinary medicine: validation, harmonisation and application. Proceedings of the 24th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)

Databases in veterinary medicine – validation, harmonisation and application: introduction

Authors: Hans Houe, Agneta Egenvall, Anna-Maija Virtala, Thorstein Olafsson and Olav Østerås

Organizing research data

Research relies on ever larger amounts of data from experiments, automated production equipment, questionnaries, times series such as weather records, and so on. A major task in science is to combine, process ...

Authors: Peter Sestoft

Data warehouse for assessing animal health, welfare, risk management and –communication

The objective of this paper is to give an overview of existing databases in Denmark and describe some of the most important of these in relation to establishment of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administratio...

Authors: Annette Cleveland Nielsen

Integrating databases for research on health and performance in small animals and horses in the Nordic countries

In a world of limited resources, using existing databases in research is a potentially cost-effective way to increase knowledge, given that correct and meaningful results are gained.

Authors: Agneta Egenvall, Ane Nødtvedt, Lars Roepstorff and Brenda Bonnett

WorldFengur - the studbook of origin for the Icelandic horse

WorldFengur is the database that contains and functions as the studbook of origin of the Icelandic horse. Only pure-bred Icelandic horses, whose ancestry can be traced back to Iceland entirely, may be register...

Authors: Jón Baldur Lorange

When counting cattle is not enough: multiple perspectives in agricultural and veterinary research

A traditional approach in agricultural and veterinary research is focussing on the biological perspective where large cattle-databases are used to analyse the dairy herd. This approach has yielded valuable ins...

Authors: Bjørn Gunnar Hansen, Vidar Schei and Arent Greve

Use of information on disease diagnoses from databases for animal health economic, welfare and food safety purposes: strengths and limitations of recordings

Many animal health, welfare and food safety databases include data on clinical and test-based disease diagnoses. However, the circumstances and constraints for establishing the diagnoses vary considerably amon...

Authors: Hans Houe, Ian Andrew Gardner and Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen

Can pre-collected register data be used to identify dairy herds with good cattle welfare?

Pre-recorded register data from dairy herds are available in almost all Nordic countries. These databases can be used for research purposes, and one of the research areas is animal welfare. The aim of this stu...

Authors: Ann-Kristin Nyman, Ann Lindberg and Charlotte Hallén Sandgren