National Information System on Animal Experiments (NISAE)

1. National Information System on Animal Experiments (NISAE)

2. To develop data structure and the mechanism of data flow for the creation of Animal Experiments Information System To develop relevant software for the generation of the information system and selective retrieval of information, and To implement, maintain and update the information system Objectives

3. Population statistics of animal wealth in India Source: Livestock Census, 1997, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of agriculture, Govt. of India

4. Why this system? • A large number of animal experiments in various disciplines of animal sciences are being conducted at different ICAR Institutes and Agricultural Universities. • Information on the data and the results of these experiments is not available in compatible form at one place to the scientific community. Contd...

5. Under this project a computer based National Information System for animal experiments has been developed. Information related to significant findings from the experiments are being stored in the system. It will act as a centralized information system for the scientific community involved in the research/development activities in the field of animal sciences. Serve as an important tool in planning and monitoring of research.

6. The experiments in various disciplines of animal sciences are being undertaken at various ICAR institutes dealing with Animal Sciences, Agricultural/Veterinary Universities, etc. The key source of information under the project has been the annual reports published by these organizations. From these reports it is seen that research in NARS is conducted through formation of projects and sub-projects with experiments planned under these projects/sub-projects. At present we are in the process of obtaining the information on different projects classified in 23 disciplines, undertaken at twenty one research organizations during the period 1997 & onwards. Source and Data Availability

7. (i) List of Institutes:

9. (ii) List of Subjects:

10. Feature of the System The information system has been designed keeping in view that the system is user friendly and can be used by individuals having no knowledge of computer based information system and/or computer software background. Therefore it is a computer-based record keeping system related to animal research experiments conducted in the country where overall purpose is to record, maintain and retrieve the information.

11. NISAE has been developed as a web-based application using JAVA technology. Therefore, it is platform independent and can be connected from any computer connected to the Internet. The user only has to confirm that computer has a Web-browser. The architecture using three-layered structure is: Client Side Interface layer (CSIL) Server Side Application layer (SSAL) Database layer (DBL) Architecture of NISAE

12. Architecture of NISAE

13. The client side interface layer has been developed by using HTML, JavaScript using browser as front-end. This interface enables incorporating the validation checks in data entry forms. NISAE runs at any node of the network through browser. To run the NISAE with full functionality one must have internet explorer 5.0 or Netscape Navigator pre-installed. Client Side Interface Layer (CSIL)

14. Server side application layer is implemented using Java Server Pages (JSP). These JSP generate HTML pages according to the users' action and request. Server Side Application Layer (SSAL)

15. Database used for the development of NISAE has been structured using Microsoft Access 2000. The tables with their respective content fields and other specifications are designed using the relational database approach and proper normalization. Data Base Layer (DBL)