BiteDB — National Dog Bite & Attack Data Project
BiteDB is a U.S. dog bite and attack incident-data project being built to collect, organize, cross-reference and publish information about dog bites, serious attacks, fatalities, individual incidents, statistics and related news. The goal is to turn scattered incident reporting and source material into a structured public reference that can grow over time instead of remaining a collection of isolated articles.
BiteDB is being developed on Wired West Computing’s FORGE publishing framework. FORGE provides the research-and-publishing workflow behind the project: investigate new material, verify and preserve sources, structure the findings into reusable records, build and compare website updates, validate the package, publish it, and continue expanding the underlying data model as new information becomes available.
The full BiteDB site is currently under construction. The public site is an initial publishing baseline while the incident database, research model, statistical views, source structure and ongoing news-tracking tools are being built out.