Knowledge of the land and associated soils is fundamental in understanding landscape issues and the impacts that may arise from human activities or biophysical system change (ie. climate change). The Victorian Soil Information System (VSIS) is a new information system for storing and accessing primary soil data. The systems predominantly comprises soil profile data, which is a fundamental input into a number of land use and biophysical modelling and inference systems supporting management of the land resources. The information system is based on the existing national Australian Soil Resource Information System (ASRIS) database design but was extended to support soil monitoring (time-series), detailed metadata and State specific standards and classifications. Part of this strategy is to build the necessary linkages for future streamlined data exchange and interoperability between State and national soil information systems. VSIS is web-based and current access is via the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) intranet. VSIS and contains high quality soils data for approximately 3,000 sites. Data can be viewed and extracted using web based SQL queries or through a Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping interface. The system supports the seamless integration of both spatial and aspatial queries to support efficient search and discovery of the data asset. Previously the data now held within VSIS had not been readily accessible with distributed collections in different forms (paper or digital). VSIS now consolidates this information to produce a single point of truth of soil information in Victoria. In the past users of soil data had often found it simpler to seek out original reports and extract data from these manually. Although a significant volume of soil reports and data are available through the Victorian Resources Online (VRO) web site, these are static and do not enable automated data searching and extraction. VSIS provides a new paradigm for search discovery and access to soil information and is an important knowledge resource for support natural resource management.