1. «Data exchange in bovine identification database BOVEX»
Technical Workshop
«Data exchange in bovine identification database BOVEX»
Rome – Teramo June 2015

2. The National Centre for Animal Identification and Registration Luigi Possenti – Diana Palma - Cesare Di Francesco Teramo CIFIV - 12 June 2015

3. The National Centre for Animal Identification and Registration
The “National Center for Animal Identification and Registration” (CSN) was instituted on March 2, 2001, as an operative agency of the Ministry of Health, at “IZSAM" in Teramo, where it can have benefits from the experience of the “National Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology, Planning and Information” (COVEPI), already activated there.
On behalf of the “Department for Veterinary Public Health, Nutrition and Food Safety” of the Ministry of Health, the CSN took charge of the design, implementation and management of the National Database (BDN) of the farms and animals, starting from Bovine species.

4. The CSN in IZSAM
The CSN is a department of the “Information Technology Laboratory” (CED) of IZSAM and its staff works in close collaboration with other departments, especially:
“Software Development” and “Telematics” (CED);
“Risk Analysis National Reference Centre”, “Epidemiology”, “Statistics and GIS” (COVEPI)

5. The Staff of CSN The staff of CSN consists of 36 people:
20 Information Technology specialists as:
IT managers
Project Managers
Analysts
Software and Database Developers
Web Designers
4 administrative clerks
12 operators for Help Desk e Customer Application Support.
They have support of DBAs, GIS experts, Network Administrators, Security Administrators, employed in different departments of IZSAM.
The staff is involved also as teachers in training sessions about Animal Identification and Registration System and practical use of related web applications.

6. Italian National Database (BDN)
The BDN is operative since 2000 and collects, in accordance with Reg. EC 1720/2000, the data of all holdings and animals present on the national territory, starting from bovines.
In following years BDN included at first small ruminants (Reg. EC 21/2004) and then porcine (Dir. 2008/71/EC), poultry, equines, bees and aquaculture establishments.
EC recognized the fully operational character of the Italian database for bovine animals with Decision of 13 February 2006.

7. Software Applications for BDN
Software applications developed by CSN are Web and Mobile Applications in Internet
Information are recorded in BDN in real time
The breeder is responsible of all registration related to his own herd (births, movements, deaths and so on) and he can update BDN by himself, using web applications, or delegate another person to do it;
BDN information are supplied to different Information Systems, via Web Services
BDN
BDR
BDR users
BDN users
HTML
SOAP

8. The BDN and others Applications
CSN designs, implements and manages others Web Applications in order to collect data about Animal Helth; all information are related to herd and animals data, registered only into BDN.
WAHID
ADNS

9.
All applications are accessible from Veterinary Information System web portal after user authentication.

10. What type of users? Breeders and their delegates
Veterinary Services of Local Health Units (ASL) and Regions
Owners of slaughterhouses
Producers of ear tags and means for animal identification
Public Veterinary Laboratories (IIZZSS)
Ministry of Health (Public Veterinary Health Department)

11. User authentication Digital certificate
Every person who enters or changes data in BDN should be recognized by the system.
Authentication is based on the technology of digital certificate.
Each user must be equipped with a valid digital certificate issued by a Certificate Authority

12. Digital certificates provided
Since BDN was first activated, CSN has provided more than smart cards carrying digital certificates.

13. BDN users (november 2014)
Breeders: 7.599
Vet. Services LHU : 6.601
Private breeders associations: 2.628
Slaugtherhouses: 913
Ear tags producers: 482
Private Veterinaries: 125
Others: 2.293
In a working day more then different users access to the BDN system

14. Istituto G. Caporale - Teramo
User assistance
For all CSN's software applications, users can obtain a competent support calling Help Desk via a toll free number
The service is avaiable from 8:00 to 20:00 from Monday to Friday and on Saturday from 8:00 to 14:00.
Istituto G. Caporale - Teramo

15. Information collected in BDN
BDN is the Official National Registry for:
farms (identified by unique national farm code, address, geographical coordinates);
owners and breeders;
herds of Cattle and Buffaloes, Sheep and Goats, Equine, Pigs and wild boars
Poultry, Bees
Aquaculture estabilishment

16. Information collected in BDN
In addition BDN collects:
Information about single animals (Cattle, Buffaloes, Sheep and Goats)
Movements of animals , with origin, destination and date
Each other main event in animal life, as death, loss or theft
Periodic census of herd (sheeps and goats, pigs and wild boars)
Also information about slaugtherhouses are recorded in BDN and all slaughters of animals, with date and origin.

17. Some Data stored in BDN on 12/31/2014
Number of farm with animals:
Number of animals:
Number of movements between national farms in the year:
Number of imported animals in the year:
Number of slaughters in the year:
Bovines
Monthly summary reports are supplied in free access web pages.
Also an annual Cattle Book is downloadable from public home page.

18. BDN data on GIS
Data from BDN are basic for data analysis and statistics for epidemiological purpose; such information can be viewed and queried on maps and GIS.

19. Thank you for your kind attention!
Teramo – Gran Sasso
Teramo - IZSAM