British Columbia Soil Information System

BCSIS Volume I - User Manual for the British Columbia Soil Information System

Table of Contents	List of Figures
List of Appendices	List of Tables

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Purpose
  • Who May Use BCSIS
  • Bugs in the System

• System Description
  • Flow of Data into BCSIS
  • Structure of the Data when Input
  • Order of Entry of Data
  • Structure of the Data when Stored
  • Changing, Adding or Deleting Data
  • Validation of Data
  • Promotion of Data

• Procedures Available in BCSIS
  • Procedures Accessible only by Data Control
  • Procedures Directly Available to the User

• BCSIS Files
  • Files within BCSIS
  • Files External to BCSIS

• Living With BCSIS: A Typical Sequence of Events

• BCSIS Error and Validation Procedures in Detail
  • Introduction
  • Error Reports
    • Error Reports as a Result of the Edit Procedures
      1. Site Error Reports
      2. Soil Error Reports
      3. Lab Error Reports
    • Error Reports as a Result of Validation Procedures
      1. Consistency Validation Error Reports
      2. Horizon Validation Error Reports
      3. Pedon Validation Error Reports

• BCSIS User Procedures in Detail
  • Where the Procedures are Stored
  • A Typical Example of a Procedure
  • LIST Procedures
    1. FORMLIST
    2. FORMFIND
    3. FORMSTAT
  • REPORT Procedures
    1. REPSIM - Simple Report
    2. REPDET - Detailed Report
  • EXTRACT and SAS Procedures
    1. EXTRACT - Data Extraction to External Files
    2. EXTRACT Fields
    3. EXTRACT Data File Creation
    4. EXTRACT SAS MACRO Creation
    5. USE OF SAS MACROS
    6. SAS - Data Analysis
    7. File Deletion
    8. SOILP.SISINFO
       

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List of Appendices

1. Site and Soil Description Forms, Manual Lab Entry Form
   • Site Description Forms available for download here
   • Soil Description Forms available for download here
   • Manual Lab Entry Forms available for download here
2. Sample Consistency Validation Table
3. Typical Printouts From FORMLIST, FORMFIND, FORMSTAT
4. Typical Examples of: SIMPLE REPORT, DETAILED REPORT
5. File Creation/Contents Log

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List of Figures

1. Site Transaction Verification Procedure: Rejected Transactions
2. Detailed Site Transaction Error Report
3. Soil Transaction Verification Procedure: Rejected Transactions
4. Detailed Soil Transaction Error Report
5. Lab Transaction Verification Procedure: Rejected Transactions
6. Detailed Lab Transaction Error Report
7. Consistency Validation Error Report
8. Horizon Validation Detailed Error Report
9. Pedon Validation - Report

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List of Tables

• Search Criteria For 'ST' Transactions

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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Sondheim, Mark W. (Mark Weiss), 1950-
User manual for the British Columbia Soil Information System

(BCSIS; v. 1) (Data management series/Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, ISSN 0715-8580; no. 1)

" BCSIS is a cooperative project sponsored jointly by the Ministries of Environment, Forests, and Agriculture & Food "

ISBN 0-7719-9168-1

1. British Columbia Soil Information System. 2. Soils - British Columbia - Data processing - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Information storage and retrieval systems - Soils - Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Suttie, Kathleen, 1957- . II. British Columbia. Ministry of Forests. III. Series. IV. Series: Data management series (British Columbia. Ministry of Forests); no. 1.

S599.1.B7S667025'.066314C83-092098-6

© 1983 Province of British Columbia
Published by the
Information Services Branch
B.C. Ministry of Forests
1450 Government Street
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 3E7

Ministry of Forests Publication No. R28-82053