Bibliographical database applied to ruminant nutrition

摘要

Animal nutrition calls upon various fields of knowledge (animal production, nutrition, metabolism). In these various fields, researchers need references and increasingly need to integrate the available knowledge. It is thus necessary to gather the published and available data in databases before analyzing them by meta-analyses or using them in mathematical modelling. To date, an operational database exists under Access which gathers the published results on nutrient exchanges between organs and tissues in Ruminants (FLORA, Fluxes of nutrients through ORgans and tissues in Ruminant Animals, (Vernet and Ortigues-Marty, 2006). The objectives of the present work were to develop a new database tool to face new stakes such as a generalisation and wideningto other fields of knowledge, data sharing between more numerous and distant users, easiness of use for an exploitation on a larger scale. Consequently, the present paper presents the specifications and the preliminary steps of the construction of the new database.