Introduction to the Electronic Submission Framework (ESF)
The Electronic Submission Framework (ESF) is a combination of technology, tools, and a website that will allow clients of the Ministry of Forests (MOF) and Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management (MSRM) to submit data electronically. The purpose of these pages is to provide information on the format and structure of an electronic submission.
ESF currently supports submissions for RESULTS (silviculture), FTA (Forest Tenures) and ABR (as built roads) applications. This scope may widen as other projects come on-line.
An electronic submission will be received in the form of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document will will allow both attribute and spatial data to be submitted in a single file. Spatial data will be embedded using Geography Markup Language (GML).
The structure of the document submitted will be will validated by checking it against the appropriate (submission-specific) XML schema. A schema is very similar to the schema of a database as both dictate the types, sizes and mandatory fields of a record. Like a database, an XML document can contain many records.
To make a submission, clients will log on to the ESF Web Site and upload an XML document. If the document does not pass the schema validation, the user will be notified on upload. Once a document is validated, it will be passed to the appropriate system, where detailed business rules can be applied thereto. If the business rules fail, a message will be sent back requiring that the client fix the data and resubmit it.
More information on this process will be made available in future versions of this website. The current focus is simply to communicate the requirements for creating XML documents.
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