Exotic disease preparedness for livestock ships

The livestock export industry is increasingly collecting data to meet regulatory obligations, support research projects and allow analysis and decision making to drive animal welfare gains and commercial outcomes. Technology innovation, adoption and data sharing are increasing in speed and importance. With the livestock export supply chain still relatively new in the collection, storage and sharing of data, there is a need and an opportunity to create data standards to ensure this is done in a conscious and standardised manner. Data standards govern how data is managed, used, represented, formatted, defined, transmitted, structured, and tagged. They refer to technical specifications or recorded agreements that describe how data should be stored or exchanged across different systems. There are two primary audiences: Supply chain participants and researchers, to provide definitions and industry data policy. IT developers, to support future software programs and data sharing between supply chain participants and/or the regulator. This project is managed by the Livestock Export RD&E Program, a collaboration between LiveCorp and Meat & Livestock Australia. Objectives The project will develop a document that contains, at minimum: Industry policy and standards for the governance of data Definitions or taxonomy of data collected Technical specifications for the data Benefits to industry Setting the standards at a strategic time will generate long-lasting principled behaviour around the collection, treatment and storage of data. Principled behaviour will increase data literacy and ensure the development of data driven technology continues to service the livestock export industry.