Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 3 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. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. All files were recovered; 25 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2b3da23158328f3b3e171c6937eeede5536479426ef2f95e39498c0bc08b7ed3- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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.
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: Hollyvale Bay University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Bayside, 1996–2011 (1996–2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41204.