Weblog PedigreeTipsEN

"Dear Mr Bez, please find attached some scanned pedigrees, pictures and some dog show results. Thank you for your efforts." - We like to help, but unfortunately we can not spend the effort to extract the data of single dogs from pedigrees and enter them in the Database. There are about 60.000 Briards in this Database and every year 5.000 new are added. If it took us only one minute per entry, this would be more than four days work around the clock...

For this reason we equipped the Database with tools that allow you to prepare all changes on your own. We just have to review and to release them. (But please note: All changes will undergo a plausibility check before they are published.)

1. Add an entry: On the Database portal page, under the headline "Submit your information", you find a button "Create new entry". When you press this you are forwarded to a data entry form. Please double check the digits you entered as spam protection key before you finish your input.
2. Add a new kennel entry: On the Database portal page, under the headline "Submit your information", you find a button "Create new kennel entry". You are forwarded to the respective entry form.
3. Change an entry: Search for the dog you want to change, for example by entering a significant part of its name in the input field under the headline "Search". When you found the pedigree page for the dog, press the button "Edit entry" in the upper right of the screen. You will see a pre-filled input form where you can add, change or delete as desired.
4. Change a kennel entry: In a similar way you get to the kennel detail page. In the upper right of the screen you see a button "Change entry".
5. Add or change a picture: On the pedigree page, press "Add picture" or "Change picture", respectively. You can then upload a picture from your computer.
6. Please read here how you can add dog show results to the Database.

It is a different thing when you provide a printed stud book volume. In this case we do of course the electronic data acquisition. Stud books are organised in a way that we can extract the relevant data of complete litters easily and efficiently.

As of December 2007, the Database has several hundred of registered users and countless guest visitors. As much as 30.000 enquiries per month show that this information resource is valuable and enjoyable for many Briard fanciers. We want to keep this up.

The breed of the German clubs BCD and CfH is regularly registered in the Database as the stud books arrive. The breed outside Germany is somewhat falling behind. Therefore we want to invest more time in future to intensify the registration of the European and world-wide breed.

It would be a very valuable help for us if you could provide us with current information about the Briard breed outside Germany. This could be electronic or paper copies of stud books, lists of litters or any other relevant documents.

At least following information has to be included:

• name of bith and stud dog
• kennel name (as registered with the F.C.I.)
• names, gender and colour of the puppies

Following information is usually available, too, and will be recognised:

• day of birth
• stud book numbers of the puppies and issuing breeding club
• HD results of the parents

You can send us information in the following ways:
1. email to bez@tedesca.net
2. facsimile to +49 (30) 944 19353
3. letter to Thomas Bez, Bochumer Strasse 6, 16341 Schwanebeck, Germany

When you send us paper copies, please let is know if you want to have them back.

If you agree we would like to mention you with a link to your Internet pages to thank you for your support.

If you lost your password you can go to dieser Seite. There you can enter your user name. If you do not know your user name you can also enter your registered email address. The password will be sent to you by email immediately.

You can also navigate to the password request page by clicking on Help! in the page header and search for the question "I forgot my password". The Help! page will give you assistance also in many other cases. If you get stuck with some problem you can send us a message with the message form at the bottom of the Help! page. We will try to solve your problem soon.

It may happen that the email with your password is eliminated by a spam filter. If you have this suspicion please contact us with the message form.

When you start a "What if" simulation it may happen that

• dog or bitch are not in the database,
• dog or bitch are in the database without any ancestors, or
• both are in the database but the gender is incorrect for one of them or both.

In this case we appreciate if you take the initiative and supply the missing information. You could also ask the breeder to do so. We are really delighted if a breeder proactively registers a complete litter - this does not happen very often.

If you find only name and gender in the database for some dog this may arise from participation in a dog show which is stored in the database. In this case a minimal entry with just name and gender will be created if not yet existing.

Over 10.000 results and placements from the years since 2001 for 3.000 Briards are now assigned to the data base entries. Follow in addition the reference of "Dog show results" on the respective pedigree tree page. (The information is accessible only for registered visitors after login.)

This has been made possible by the Briards von den Seebären (http://www.seebaeren.de.vu), who regularly collect and publish exhibition results. This covers mainly exhibitions and selections in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Benelux, Denmark, Czech Republic and Slowakia.

Gaps can not be avoided, nnot even for Germany, given the multitude of events taking place. We cannot accept single individual results for inclusion in the database, but the assessment and placement results from a complete exhibition are highly welcome. Please send respective information to the Briards von den Seebären or to us. Error notes are also always appreciated.

In headlines and list views, kennel names show without articles and prepositions. This conduces to legibility of the lists and better visual design of the pages. (See http://www.barnim.net/pedigree/klist.html for an example.)

Eamples of omitted text elements are:

• de, de la, du, des
• von, aus
• of
• van
• z

Dog names are always shown with their complete and correct kennel name. On the kennel deteil pages (e.g. http://www.barnim.net/pedigree/kennel/2005.html) also the complete name is shown under "Kennel:".

The database is designed in a multi-lingual way. An arbitrary number of languages is possible but currently the database is is only available in English, French and German.

If your language settings have already been stored, your selected language will be shown in the headline of the window.

1. Languages already supported by the database will be indicated by their country flag.
2. Languages not supported will be indicated by a language tag (e.g. SE for Swedish, RU for Russian etc.) Instead of the not supported language, English will be used.
3. If no language setting has been stored yet, the databased will be displayed bilingual in German and English.

If you want to change the database language please click on the flag or the language tag in the headline.

If you could volunteer to translate the database to other languages please send a message to bez@tedesca.net.

The quality of the data is crucial for the usability of the data base. That means for example:

• material correctness
• no duplication of entries
• uniform ways of writing
• use of the official spellings
• uniform use of abbreviations
• etc.

Therefore all changes to the data base are examined manually before release. This can take some hours, usually however not more than three days.

Each data base entry can have a picture added. The picture is shown both in the pedigree view and in the detail view. By clicking on the picture it can be downloaded in full resolution.

If several pictures are assigned to an entry, only the last one uploaded will be displayed. You can update in this way an existing picture.

Navigate to the pedigree view and select the button "Add picture" or "Change picture" on the top right of the window.

Please do only upload pictures if you are the copyright owner or if you have the consent of the copyright owner that you may publish the picture.

With this search form you can accomplish complex data base inquiries. Criteria for which you can look thereby are for example:

• components of the name
• date of birth (before a date, afterwards, accurately the date)
• name of the sire or the dam
• a component of the stud book number (e.g. "BCD")
• kennel name
• and further criteria
• as well as "and" combinations of different criteria.

The search result is offered to you for download. You can store it on your hard disk in a so-called CSV file. This type of file can be opened and processed with Microsoft Excel.

This function is available only for registered and logged-in users.