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and charts of all the data obtained during a particular field 
season. In other cases the publication may concern itself 
with only one type of data that was collected from various 
ships over a large area or over a relatively long period of 
time. In any case, copies of all data are to be made available 
as soon as possible to the National Oceanographic Data Center 
so that they will be readily available through that organiza- 
tion to potential users. 
Because many agencies and institutions will use the amassed 
data, the ICO Ocean Surveys Advisory Panel in consultation with 
the National Oceanographic Data Center and the non-governmental 
oceanographic community will resolve such publication problems 
as the standardization of the format and content of atlases, 
and the scale, projection, and content of bathymetric charts 
and of maps showing the distribution of variables. Professional 
papers on the results of research carried out using the data 
from Ocean Surveys shall, of course, be published in any way 
that meets the research scientist's requirements. 
When the data have accumulated to the extent that consid- 
erable information is available for a large segment of the 
ocean, the separate cruise reports and data reports will be 
used as the basis for publishing an atlas of the results of 
the surveys of that particular area. 
K. Shore Facilities and Manpower 
The steadily increasing amounts of data and volume of 
samples resulting from these surveys will require augmenta- 
tion of shore facilities and manpower to process and analyze 
