Appendix B — Roadmap and edition history
B.1 Edition history
The encyclopedia was drafted in three passes, which for a time were circulated as three separate documents. They are now one. The pass in which each entry was first written is retained in the data as its tier, which is what makes the Tier-1 view below reproducible:
| Pass | What it added | Breeds | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 — original core | The first breeds and landraces documented, and the conditions most commonly seen in general small-animal practice | 68 | 82 |
| Tier 2 — expansion | The broader AKC/KC/FCI-recognised breeds and the specialty parts (puppy, senior, emergency, breeding, working, cognition) | 84 | 57 |
| Tier 3 — global coverage | African, Central Asian, Latin American, Nordic and European regional breeds; toxicology, genetics, evolution, wildlife | 246 | 28 |
| Total | This edition | 398 | 167 |
Edition 2026.2 additionally: consolidated the three circulating editions into this single document; merged the duplicate and cross-filed conditions; added the clinical entries whose absence was hardest to defend in a general reference — transmissible venereal tumour, myiasis, heatstroke, road-traffic trauma, tetanus, organophosphate poisoning, the intestinal helminths, obesity, and a haematology and immunology system that did not previously exist; added Parts XX–XXIV (rabies and zoonoses, the cost of care and insurance, travel, housing and the law, reading a vet's report); made urgency, signs, sources, and the breed-to-condition graph structured data; and gave 357 of 398 breeds a properly-licensed photograph.
Edition 2026.4 expanded the corpus to 398 breeds, adding native, landrace, and internationally-recognised breeds from every continent so the reference is genuinely global rather than weighted to any one region.
Edition 2026.5 converged the former India-first presentation into a single global reference of equal priority: breeds are ordered by function and by region with no country leading, the per-breed suitability field is a general climate & housing field rather than an India-specific one, and the region-specific practical chapters (climate, regulation, veterinary infrastructure) are retained as first-class reference rather than as the frame.
The tiers are a view, not a product. Rendering the original core alone (for the DBP narrative, or for a lightweight app bundle) is a filter over the same data, not a second document to maintain.
B.2 Where the encyclopedia goes next
- Tier 2 (12–18 months): 300–350 FCI/AKC-recognised breeds; 500+ conditions; multi-vet reviewer pool by specialty; full 2–4-page monograph per breed.
- Tier 3 (3–5 years): all FCI regional-club breeds; landrace and village populations globally; peer-reviewed contributor pool; multi-language (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi at launch); interactive breed-comparison and personalisation features.
- The MVP framework in this Tier-1 document — schema, disclaimer discipline, vet-review workflow, non-prescriptive constraint — is intended to scale to Tiers 2 and 3 unchanged.
PC.2 What remains for Tier 3
- Full breed monograph expansion — from 1-page compact to 2-4 page detailed format (breed-specific vaccination schedule, breed-specific nutrition, breed-specific grooming, screening protocol, representative photographs).
- Extended breed roster — remaining ~200 FCI-recognised regional-club breeds and additional world landraces (African village dog populations; Latin American landraces; Central Asian livestock guardians; Southeast Asian native breeds).
- Extended condition coverage — full diagnostic-algorithm monographs for each of the ~500 clinically-relevant conditions.
- Multi-language localisation — Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu at launch; additional languages iteratively.
- Multimedia integration — breed photograph libraries under creative-commons licence; canine vocalisation samples; gait video clips (from consenting Dally pilot users).
- Interactive features — breed comparison; symptom checker (with vet-in-the-loop gate); breed compatibility with owner lifestyle quiz; adoption match-making.
- Contributor-vet peer review — versioned entries with named contributor attribution; wiki-style edit workflow with editorial oversight.
PC.3 Publication and licensing
- Distribution — subdomain (dogs.feme.solutions or atlas.dally.in) with SEO optimisation.
- Licensing — CC-BY-SA 4.0 for the textual content; images under individual licence terms; the specific breed and condition schemas remain proprietary as a Feme Solutions trade secret.
- Attribution — every entry cites its veterinary reviewer(s) by name and credential; every citation is verifiable.
- Update cadence — every entry reviewed at least every 24 months or sooner on major clinical-guideline change.
- Contribution — licensed vets can propose edits via a moderated workflow; contributions are attributed and credentialled.
Each Tier-1 breed monograph will be expanded to a 2–4 page monograph in Tier 2, adding: breed-specific vaccination schedule, breed-specific nutritional recommendations, breed-specific training considerations, breed-specific grooming schedule, breed-specific screening schedule (cardiac, hip, eye), line-specific health-testing recommendations for breeders, and a small collection of representative photographs. Each Tier-1 condition monograph will be expanded to a full diagnostic algorithm with citations to peer-reviewed clinical trials and consensus statements — still under the non-prescriptive constraint (no drug names, doses, routes, or durations).
B.3 Deliberately not in scope
- Multi-language localisation — a translation project per language, distinct from encyclopedic-content production. Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, and Marathi are the launch targets.
- A copyright-cleared breed-image library — requires individual sourcing agreements or a commissioned photographer.
- Vocalisation and gait media — to be collected during the Bengaluru pilot under DPDPA-grade consent.
- An interactive symptom checker — an application feature with vet-in-the-loop moderation, not encyclopedic content.
- Individual patient case studies — practitioner-level content, and constrained by DPDPA patient-confidentiality expectations.
- The long tail of FCI regional-club rare breeds — breeds recognised only by a national kennel club add little for the general owner and inflate the corpus.
B.4 What the encyclopedia contributes to the Doctoral Business Plan
- Section 3 (Product / Service) — a differentiated content asset that ships with the app: the breed records here are what supply the breed-aware defaults for the physiology thresholds and behavioural priors.
- Section 4 (Marketing & Sales) — an SEO and content-marketing engine of real scale (398 breed pages + 167 condition pages + nineteen chapters, published as the Dally Canine Atlas), global in coverage, and with no equivalent among pet-tech competitors in the launch market.
- Section 5 (Team) — the consulting vet panel and its review workflow are specified in Appendix A.3; reviewers are named and credited against the entries they sign off.
- Section 6 (Financial Plan) — organic-traffic acquisition from the Atlas is the mechanism by which the model reduces paid CAC.
- Section 9 (IPR) — the breed and condition schemas, the vet-review workflow, and the non-prescriptive constraint architecture are the copyrightable proprietary assets, with trade-secret and trademark protection layered on top.