File Format 709
for Data Delivery to the Interbull Centre for the International Genomic Evaluation
FILE FOR ORIGINAL BRAUNVIEH STATUS
Starting Position |
Field Description |
Format |
Example |
1 |
Record type 1 |
integer 3 |
709 |
4 |
Country sending this information 2 |
character 3 |
AUS |
7 |
Breed of evaluation 3 |
character 3 |
BSW |
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Animal international identification 4 |
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11 |
Breed of animal 5 |
character 3 |
BSW |
14 |
Country of first registration of animal 2 |
character 3 |
AUS |
17 |
Sex |
character 1 |
M |
18 |
ID number of animal 6 |
character 12 |
000000A12345 |
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31 |
Bull's status as being original Braunvieh (Y/N) |
character 1 |
Y |
- 1 Record type is always 709 for this File Format
- 2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes (3 characters, capital letters)
- 3 Breed of evaluation (3 characters, capital letters, BSW, GUE, HOL, JER, RDC, SIM)
- 4 Please see Interbull Bulletin 28.
- 5 Breed of animal (3 characters, capital letters)
- 6 Alpha-numerical, always 12 characters long
OBS: All character variables should be left adjusted, and all integer variables right adjusted.
File Format 709 XML
All files uploaed to IDEA AnimInfo must be presented in an xml-format. A python-program converting the above described flat file format to the correct xml-format is available in the software-section of IDEA.
The xml file format is made up by one section representing the animal section. The animal section consists of a sequence of "a" nodes (short for animal), each containing the header id to report the animal's AID and a subnode reporting:
- The TYPE of information (i.e. BULL_OB_STATUS)
- The BREED
- The COUNTRY (for the country sending the information)
- The OB_STATUS (i.e. the bull's status as being original Braunvieh, accepted values Y/N).
<interbull type="animinfo" version="1.0">
<animals>
<a id="BSWITAM003006216853"><BULL_OB_STATUS breed="BSW" country="ITA" ob_status="N" /></a>
<a id="BSWITAM000074226306"><BULL_OB_STATUS breed="BSW" country="ITA" ob_status="N" /></a>
<a id="BSWITAM000074300946"><BULL_OB_STATUS breed="BSW" country="ITA" ob_status="Y" /></a>
<a id="BSWITAM000470210596"><BULL_OB_STATUS breed="BSW" country="ITA" ob_status="N" /></a>
</animals>
</interbull>