Comments on: The Internet, Ole Shep’s Best Friend http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/current-collie-articles/the-internet-ole-sheps-best-friend/ "Of all the canine race, the Scotch Colley is the most intelligent. The herder's help-mate and friend, and gentleman's pet." Poultry Monthly, 1881 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shep http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/current-collie-articles/the-internet-ole-sheps-best-friend/#comment-414 Shep Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:52 +0000 http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/?p=603#comment-414 Thanks Christopher, great information. Another nice online registry is the English Shepherd Club registry at <a href="http://www.esc-registry.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.esc-registry.org/</a> (another one you will need to register for) I'm probably a bit biased, but mine is light-years ahead of most of these other online registries. However I am taking a bit different approach than these, they all require changes to be sent in and added by the database administrator while I plan on using more of a Wikipedia type of approach of user edited content. I'm not entirely sure how well this will work, but I think if I can make it work it will be very low maintenance and help keep costs down to nothing. Thanks Christopher, great information.

Another nice online registry is the English Shepherd Club registry at http://www.esc-registry.org/ (another one you will need to register for)

I’m probably a bit biased, but mine is light-years ahead of most of these other online registries. However I am taking a bit different approach than these, they all require changes to be sent in and added by the database administrator while I plan on using more of a Wikipedia type of approach of user edited content. I’m not entirely sure how well this will work, but I think if I can make it work it will be very low maintenance and help keep costs down to nothing.

]]> By: Christopher@BorderWars http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/current-collie-articles/the-internet-ole-sheps-best-friend/#comment-413 Christopher@BorderWars Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:24:41 +0000 http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/?p=603#comment-413 I'm a proponent of separating record keeping from dogma. Many lessons can be learned from the Border Collie registries in this regard. (1) Published Stud Books are better than unpublished books. Ths ISDS publishes their books. Even though they themselves haven't joined the digital revolution, one devoted BC person scanned them all in, recreated the database, and ran BRILLIANT and informative analysis on them. http://www.palado.demon.nl/bcdb/ (2) Unpublished stud books are stupid. The information about many American Border Collies is essentially lost as at least two of the more popular registries shut down without transferring their books and a hurricane wiped out a database. (3) The registries with agendas to push charge the most money and provide the least information. (4) There are some similar efforts to what you're doing. Perhaps you can get ideas from them: http://db.kennel.dk/ http://www.anadune.com/abcd.php (Join to use) http://usfdr.com/search.html I’m a proponent of separating record keeping from dogma. Many lessons can be learned from the Border Collie registries in this regard. (1) Published Stud Books are better than unpublished books.

Ths ISDS publishes their books. Even though they themselves haven’t joined the digital revolution, one devoted BC person scanned them all in, recreated the database, and ran BRILLIANT and informative analysis on them.

http://www.palado.demon.nl/bcdb/

(2) Unpublished stud books are stupid. The information about many American Border Collies is essentially lost as at least two of the more popular registries shut down without transferring their books and a hurricane wiped out a database.

(3) The registries with agendas to push charge the most money and provide the least information.

(4) There are some similar efforts to what you’re doing. Perhaps you can get ideas from them:

http://db.kennel.dk/
http://www.anadune.com/abcd.php (Join to use)
http://usfdr.com/search.html

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