The document describes a proposed system for an animal adoption center that would use electronic records and microchips to store and retrieve information about rescued pets and their adopters. Key elements of the system include implanting microchips in pets to identify them, maintaining records on a database about each pet's information like medical history and previous owners, and allowing potential adopters to view information about available pets in an online catalogue. The document suggests using metadata standards like Dublin Core to structure the databases and provides examples of how information would be stored and updated for pets, members, and adoption records.

3. Pet adoption centre The place where rescued abandoned pets may be sent Pets wait for their next owner Electronic microchip implanted as “ID card” Health services: injection + de-sexing

4. Adoption Good health condition + suitable living environment required Register as members first Home visits to the adopter’s family after adoption Database system Used to store pet’s information consistently

6. Retrieve records for information such as the source, adopter’s information, etc.

9. Comparison of online catalogues HK Alley Cats Watch

10. Comparison of online catalogues HK Alley Cats Watch Proposed Scheme

11. Society for Abandoned Animals (SSA)

12. Society for Abandoned Animals (SSA) Proposed Scheme

13. Hong Kong Dog Rescue (HKDR)

14. Hong Kong Dog Rescue (HKDR) Proposed Scheme

15. Microchip implant for identification Locate and identify pets Assign unique number Notification to staff and members Signaling to staff when pets need treatment Notification of expiring membership Catalogue for keeping records Store pets’ information Retrieve the information by using search function

16. Updating pet information Help adopters on decision making When pets receive injections, update health records for keeping track on health condition Arranging of home visit after adoption Monitor the pets’ latest condition Summarizing statistics Formulate strategy for operation or promotion

17. Dublin Core (DC) is used as our schema framework

19. Presentation of schema

20. Presentation of schema

21. Presentation of schema

22. Presentation of schema

23. Presentation of schema

25. Pet_basic

26. Member

27. Adoption_record

28. Record of Table : Pet_basic

29. Surprised to notice how metadata closely relates to us Impressed by the significance of: Planning for data structure Criteria for data selection No longer be appropriate to use single schema (Dublin Core) to construct a metadata scheme Adoption of mixing different metadata schema (Barker & Campbell, 2010)

30. Barker, P. & Campbell, L. M. (2010). Metadata for Learning Materials: An Overview of Existing Standards and Current Developments. Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning, 7(3/4), 225. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

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