Contribute to canine behavioral intelligence
Your professional observations are more valuable than you think. BarkMind turns daily behavioral encounters into structured, searchable, citable scientific data — one case at a time.
Built for behavioral professionals
Dog Trainers
CPDT-KA, CPDT-KSA, KPA-CTP. Document training session breakdowns, client case histories, and challenging presentations.
Daycare & Boarding Staff
Group play leaders and kennel supervisors. Submit arousal escalation, fight sequences, and handler intervention outcomes.
Shelter Behaviorists
Intake assessors and kennel leads. Document surrender cases, kennel stress patterns, and SAFER assessment outcomes.
Groomers
Certified groomers and fear-free practitioners. Submit grooming stress cases and low-stress handling incidents.
Veterinary Staff
Technicians and DVMs. Document restraint stress, fear response escalation, and pre-visit anxiety protocols.
Students & New Practitioners
Learning professionals. Annotate existing cases and build structured behavioral observation skills.
Three ways to contribute
Submit a case
Document a behavioral incident from your practice. Upload video or images, describe the context, and select the behavioral signals you observed. Takes 5–10 minutes.
Annotate existing cases
Browse open cases and add your behavioral observations. Apply tags from our 73-term behavioral taxonomy, write structured annotations, and add confidence levels. No case of your own? Annotate someone else's.
Expert reviewcredential required
Certified professionals (CPDT, CBCC, CAAB, or equivalent) can claim cases for formal review. Submit structured verdicts with recommendations that become the ground truth labels in the dataset.
Apply for expert status after creating an account. Admin review required.
Your contributions are protected
You keep attribution
Every annotation you create carries your username and credentials permanently. If this data trains future models, you are credited.
Revisions are audited
If you edit an annotation, the previous version is preserved in revision history. Your intellectual contribution is never erased.
Governed by Aegis
BarkMind runs under the Aegis governance platform. Every action is logged in an immutable audit trail. No data manipulation without a trace.
Expert verification is real
Expert badges require admin verification of credentials. There are no self-certification shortcuts. Expertise here is earned.
Ready to start?
Create an account, browse the existing cases to see how annotation works, then submit your first case or annotation.