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NO

Lpub

LO

LLL.

NVOO has central data bank.

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Final survey data should be added to LLL data bank.

Hollister;
Bair:

Asked WJB what's meant by a central data bank?

Will be 3 banks:

Scientific data bank at LLL (not yet in place)
Operational data - NV
13 - atoll survey data bank

13-atoll data should go to LLL, not NV.

Robison:

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Templeton:

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Robison:

Ray agrees.

Should be a directive to participants to send data

to LLL.

Should have special forms sent to participants.
Need data, not opinions of reports.
What about Conard's medical and environmental data of

McCraw:

the past 20 years?

OK for environmental data but LLL data bank is not

Robison:

set up for medical data.

Should there be one central data bank?

HH - Yes.

LLL includes BNL med. data base (duplicate).
LLL includes U. Washington data.

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Francis:

How will you implement a data bank?
Mechanics vs. policy
Will you pool data before publication?
There must be agreements regarding the form of the data and it must be kept current to be useful for decision-making

Robison:

Not much interaction with other scientific groups

Hollister:

Publication rights should not be an issue

Is an applied problem area ~ government has vested
interest

Identify resource needs to get into budget before 1981

Needs coordination
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Bair:

Committee will come back to this later

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