To facilitate collection of wildlife inventory data and reports consistent with the RIC Standard Inventory Methods defined by the British Columbia Components of Biodiversity manuals and data-forms. To support wildlife management, the Forest Practises Code, efforts to protect biodiversity, research and education. To make wildlife inventory data easier to access, understand and use. SPI will record less structured information about ad-hoc wildlife sightings and wildlife habitat feature observations. The operational database will contain spreadsheets, reports and other documents relating to inventory projects.
Historical information is needed to record trends in wildlife population parameters.
Quality assurance is performed by regional staff and the data is migrated from the data capture database to the operational database when it is complete. All applications are 32 bit software for Windows NT 4.0. All applications and databases were put into production. All documentation is available via the SPI website . A copy of the SPI database used for data entry of wildlife observation projects.