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Appendix B: GCDIS User Groups
Pages 53-55

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... Appends B: GCDIS User Groups The potential users of Me GCDIS are mentioned in the summary of the assessing implications of global change working group, chapter 3. The appendix describes the types of user groups in more detail.
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... The primary responsibility in supporting and sustaining this data-support activity would reside in the USGCRP structured research and assessment programs, but they should be organized to assure close support, effective archiving, and efficient dissemination. Policy analysts and other prospective users such as journalists, educators, legal scholars, or experts in international relations and negotiation, reside in the top layer.
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... Data-support activity here includes creating and maintaining suitable hierarchical indices of existing reports and publications built atop Me existing library system; WAlS/Gopher-like technology could be exploited.
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