Udomprasert P, Williamson N B
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108.
Vet Rec. 1990 Sep 8;127(10):256-62.
The DairyCHAMP program is an animal health and management software program that helps daily animal management, herd performance monitoring and problem analysis. Data entry to the program uses a data dictionary and includes an error-checking system that ensures the consistency and appropriateness of data entered. DairyCHAMP performs health management functions, provides a convenient user interface, ensures uniform data across farms by using a standard data dictionary, can be fully integrated with decision-making software programs like DairyORACLE, and is flexible enough to be useful for many types of dairy facilities. Data are entered via a menu-based system. Animal events are organised around reproduction and lactation cycles and health records. Farm records include inventories for drug, feed and semen. Farm parameters can be established which customize the program for an individual farm. The database system is an integration of three schemas: the individual user's view, the community view and the storage system. The individual user's view must be easy to use, while the storage system must be compact enough to fit within the disc storage space on a microcomputer. This conflict requires a translation from one schema to another. The DairyCHAMP program accomplishes this through a coding system which assigns a code number to each event. The program can add synonyms to this event dictionary by assigning the same code number to the synonym the user chooses. The DairyCHAMP program provides access to the large amounts of data required to aid in daily animal management, allow performance monitoring and analyse problems. Its highly integrated system is efficient and easy to use and maintain.
DairyCHAMP程序是一款动物健康与管理软件程序，可协助日常动物管理、畜群生产性能监测及问题分析。该程序的数据录入采用数据字典，并包含一个错误检查系统，以确保录入数据的一致性和恰当性。DairyCHAMP具备健康管理功能，提供便捷的用户界面，通过使用标准数据字典确保各农场数据的统一性，能与DairyORACLE等决策软件程序完全集成，并且灵活性高，适用于多种类型的奶牛场设施。数据通过基于菜单的系统录入。动物事件围绕繁殖、泌乳周期及健康记录进行组织。农场记录包括药品、饲料和精液的库存。可设置农场参数，以便为单个农场定制该程序。数据库系统是三种模式的集成：个人用户视图、公共视图和存储系统。个人用户视图必须易于使用，而存储系统必须足够紧凑，以适配微型计算机的磁盘存储空间。这种冲突需要在一种模式到另一种模式之间进行转换。DairyCHAMP程序通过一个编码系统来完成此项工作，该系统为每个事件分配一个代码编号。程序可通过为用户选择的同义词分配相同的代码编号，将其添加到该事件字典中。DairyCHAMP程序提供对大量数据的访问，以辅助日常动物管理、进行生产性能监测及分析问题。其高度集成的系统高效且易于使用和维护。
