Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 9 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e9ce24157904ddbeecdb6f88b21681f3e1e264f3c967769a3670a0c889357d8c- Last verified
- Oct 12, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Fairgate University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Upper Valley, 2009–2016 (2009–2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36444.